Four Color #843

This 1957 Dell one-shot brings Walt Disney's educational ambitions to the comics page with "The First Americans: The Stirring True Story of the Indians of Yesterday." The painted cover centers on a commanding figure in a full feathered headdress and richly decorated fringed robe, raising what appears to be a ceremonial object toward a large crescent shape bathed in dramatic light, while several other headdressed figures look on from around a fire with tepees silhouetted in the background. It's a genuinely striking tableau — respectful in tone for its era — and a reminder of how Dell's Four Color series could turn almost any subject into an engaging, handsomely produced comic.