LONG BOW original art INDIANS #1 LONG BOW origin story redo page 

a real MYSTERY- enigma -CONUNDRUM

this page of original art has been kicking around for many years-I originally thought it might be from an English or maybe Australian annual  

I pulled it out recently and ran the characters names on Comicsorg and it came up with INDIANS #1 a 1950 FICTION HOUSE book.  I then searched to read the book online and GREAT there it was -page 7 of the LONG BOW story in INDIANS #1.  But wait a minute I have a Long Bow page and it is much bigger than this art -it, like many  Fiction House pages measures 22.5 X 14.25 inches.

This page is  15 X 11 inches.

So I'm looking at the Indians #1 page on the internet/screen  and I see it is marked page 7 at the lower right corner of the last panel.  And the art I have is blacked out with ink over the 7 which can be seen when the page is held up to a bright light.  So I start looking at the rest of the page and I realize that it is a completely hand drawn reasonably well done copy of the page that appeared in INDIANS #1 in 1950.  Amazing how close it is considering it's smaller size which accounts for the lesser detail in some of the smaller faces.

  Interesting to ponder if this was a copyright dodge or perhaps an effort to obtain clean line copy for reproduction/printing.  That is exactly what DC COMICS did when they hired an artist to recreate art from original copies of  ACTION 1, BATMAN 1, DETECTIVE 27, ALL STAR 3, FLASH 1, SUPERMAN 1, SENSATION 1, etc for their FAMOUS 1st EDITIONS series.

SO, if anyone knows anything more about the origin or use of this page PLEASE let me know. 

Tape stains in the top margin indicate a book title tag was once there.  There is a pencil notation of a circled 4 in the lower right margin which may well be another publishers mark.  

For comparison I've included scans of the printed page and cover of Indians #1.  This auction/listing is for the hand drawn page of art only-nothing else is included.

After reading the COMICSORG synopsis below I realized this redo page was copied from LONG BOW'S origin story and that the boy in every panel is the young LONG BOW : 

• "Blackfoot native Lone Bear hunts with his wife Looking Glass and his son, who has yet to earn his name. A party of Crow natives seek to steal back their hunting grounds, and kill Lone Bear and Looking Glass. Before he dies, Lone Bear gives his son his bow, a large weapon which the boy can barely draw. The boy escapes the Crow party, and later hides in the cabin of white man, Trapper Jim. The boy saves Trapper Jim from the Crow using his father's bow, and Trapper Jim names him Long Bow."

Also-I ran the characters names (Lone Bear and Looking Glass) and the first line of the story on the c-org query and nothing else came up that looked like a match for another publication of the art foreign or domestic.

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