Picture Stories from the Bible Old Testament #4 - First Appearance of King Ahab, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Picture Stories from the Bible Old Testament (DC, 1942 series)
Issue: #4
Publication date: Fall 1943
Key date: October 1943
On-sale date: September 20, 1943
Indicia publisher: M. C. Gaines
Price: $0.10
Pages: 60

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of King Ahab - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Prophet Elijah Is Fed by Ravens	cover	1	pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Elijah
1	Advisory Council	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	Faith Works a Modern Miracle	text article	1.33	letters: typeset
3	-	table of contents	1	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron
4	The Story of Elijah	comic story	8	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	King Ahab First
5	The Story of Elisha	comic story	7	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Elisha; Elijah; Gehazi; Naaman; Jezebel
6	The Story of Isaiah, a Great Prophet of the Jews	comic story	5	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Isaiah; King Ahaz; Shear-Jashub; King Hezekiah; King Pekah; King Rezin
7	The Story of Josiah, the Young King of the Jews	comic story	4	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	King Josiah; Shaphan; Hilkiah; Huldah; King Jehoahaz
8	The Book of Job, Who Stood the Test of Trouble	text story	2	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Job; Satan
9	The Story of the Prophet Jeremiah	comic story	6	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Jeremiah; King Jehoiakim; King Zedekiah; Ebed-Melech; Gedaliah; Baruch (cameo)
10	The Story of Balaam, to Whom an Animal Spoke!	text story	2	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Balaam
11	The Story of Ezekiel, the Prophet Who Had a Vision of Dry Bones	comic story	5	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Ezekiel; King Nebuchadnezzar
12	The Story of Nehemiah, the Rebuilder of the Jerusalem Wall	comic story	6	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Nehemiah; King Cyrus; King Artaxerxes; Hanani; Sanballat; Tobiah; Shemaiah; Eliashib (cameo)
13	The Story of the Maccabees	comic story	10	script: Montgomery Mulford; pencils: Don Cameron; inks: Don Cameron	Judas Maccabeus; Hannah; Antiochus; Jonathan; Simon; Tryphon
14	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.34	letters: typeset
15	Complete Your Old Testament Series in This Colorful Form!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Picture Stories from the Bible Complete Old Testament Edition #[nn]	1943	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #34 of 6#1 [2nd] ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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