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STAN LEE presents Editor-in-Chief

JOHN WARNER
THE Editor

DOUG MOENCH
Script

SONNY TRI NIDAD

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OF THE KAREN MANTL.O*

C0N0OY
LeSterera

DON WARFtELD
Colons!

RALPH M ACCHIO
LEN GROW &
NORA M ACUN
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by James Fenimore Cooper Staff

In his finest moments he was one of the

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
tJ ames Fenimore Cooper was born
Burlington, New Jersy,
most of his young
estate at Cooperstown, N.Y. which was
then a frontier landscape that sparked
in Cooper an early interest in the
American Indian which he later carried
over into his literary works. He was sent
to Yale College in 1806, but was later
expelled in his junior year for alleged
insubordination. In 1808 he joined the
Navy and three years later resigned and
was married, settling into a life as a
farmer in Westchester County. From
this point, his career as a budding writ-
er proceeded in earnest.
Cooper was prolific, publishing more
than thirty novels,
pieces, critical of "coonskin" democrats.
most truly American of American au-
thors, who brought to life men of the sea
and the primeval forests with a fresh-
ness and power that earned him a
worldwide reputation. He was probably
less influenced by foreign writers in the
in literary directions he followed than any
1789. He spent other American writer of that time.
life on his father's Cooper is most famous for his
Leather-stocking Tales, a series of five
interconnected novels, of which, Last of
the Mohicans is the second, though no
two of the novels appeared in their
proper order when first published.
Natty Bumppo, the major figure in
these works is a colorful unforgettable
character, as are Leathers tocking and
Hawkeye, each in their special way,
representative of the early American
experience.
After making an indelible mark on
the consciousness of his country, Cooper
retired to his family's estate in
many of them social Cooperstown, where he died in Sep-
tember ofl851.

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 It was a feature peculiar to tine -colonial wars of North America that tiie dangers of the wilderness were to be

encountered before the '.advetso bosts could meet, A wide and apparently impervious boundary of forest
separated the possessions of the mutually .hostile provinces of France end England and perhaps no
district of the frontier could more vividly host the fierceness of 5uv:tije warfare than the region between the
headwaters of the Hudson River and 'tha. adjacent lakes of Charrr. lain and "Horican" (or Lake George)...

fk>#TPWAA*P, /7S7; S/A/CE ALSO SSTT/M5 OUT:

<SA/ERAL KA0&G<e VFAT on me twenty
fN 1755", T74E EMGL/SH HAV MICE JOURNEY &-
fX#PPO0fi lX/H THE AVOUCH
,
rh/eS/V the two
ANP /A/P/AA/ WAA ''F&RTS ARE 'TWO
WHOARE AWTHiNG
BUT SOCP/ERS "- -

COfi?A AA/vAUC
MVA/ATO, DAUGH-
TERS WHO Wf$H TO
8 AT THEIR FATHER'S
<S/0/.VTWS HOUG
OF PAA/Gf9.
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ttvAac, mesenrce mwp gamut
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LANDED ANPC
ATi( PEOPLE THE
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MW PEOPLE OT?ANK sefope anp meueve~-
UNTIL THE HEAVEN'S ANP THOUGH MS PBOPLE
AND THE EAPTH HAVE /1AANW WAWS I
SEEMED JO MeT
ANP THE^f FOOLISHLY
THOUGHT THEV HAD
POUND THE 6ffAT
TN HUfZONS, THEN OH THAT I (WK, ANO IN
THE SICE OF THE Ff?NCtf- ENGLISH EVEN THE.
AND THE THIEVES ARE */A/6 NEEDN'T 86
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FOR SCALPS AHV fiLMt/P, BUT HOW DO YOU

KNOW THEY ARE
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ND NOTtfftWfiV-

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to ^aer *v/iz/Avi THAT Af\//VK4A/ fCEPTAIMLYfi?^^^ MOVS F0#WAJ?P, MA6UA
HUUTSMAM-
tfA/*Y, IS LOST IN THE 7JS3A/ THE SAVAGE ABRi/f^TCy 'SPR/NGS TOMS
BUT OUR G//P, WOODS UNLESS f
f
ANP LEARN IF r:T ANP 80L7S INTO THE.
/WA(5UA IS LOST. HE IS A THIEVING HE PLANNED-, IN WOODS. ,
TREACHi*% TO STAMPASfPE,
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A&MS OF THIS CAN'T LET THE
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^WAKFA&TY. TO WARN HIS
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SOMEHOW-- PERHAPS ^

THE CANO, 1F IT
WA NOT HIP WELL-
BUT THERE IS NOTH^ij
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? THE WOMEN WILL
$TAV0SH/NP WHILE
we ci?eEPouT anp
F/KEAT THE X7EVILS
k FgPM THE 8CCKG! i
 SET HIM UNDER COVgJ? AMparTEf? thsfirstSl - Alt? WE'LL NOT LIKELY
'
BEFORE HE TAKES AUY/HaRe FLURRY OF <SUM*I/?E,B I receive for a lons time
SIN HIS SKINNV'HIDE. 1
THEHURON MMGOeSP IN COM/M6 SO WE'D 8EST--
FAti. aact(..,r^~3&
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/FaiNTEP VARMINTS,
COME ON KILL-
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, i see them.
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.

FAIR SHARP, SAGA/MORE-

. BUT LOCK! ONE OF THE
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TtVO OF THE HURONS FALL, ONE TAKING STAW BW,CHINO-
THE FATAL CONTENTS OF KfCL-Pe&~ AMP ACH&OOK PUT
THE OTHER VffOPPEV BY OWCAS STEADY POVJPBR TO RIFLE.
HANO... AHV COVER US
FROM THOSE
across the
river.
WE'LL TAKE
TWSSff TWO
ON TVS\ROWN
GROUNPi

SO SAYING, HAWK-EYE AND l/NCAS PRAWTHEte

KIVIVBS AND LEAP FORWARP TO GREET THE HdZOH'S
LC'HGE MTU HEYWARD NOT FAR BgH/NIP..,
ThEY&MPPLE
in a fierce
embrace .pit-
ting muscle
AGAINSTMtlSCLf
FOR A SEEMIHG
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K/LL YOU, BUT THEf?E THE DEFENSES OF COMPASSION, ANO THUS CHANGE PURCAN'S
ARE EVILS HIORSf THAN MIND, SHE TURNS AWAY FROM H/M F/L LEO BOTH tVITH HAPPH
PEATH-- EVILS WHICH NESS ANO AieiANCHOCi,/i
mah ee averteobh rue
PRESENCE OF ONE WHO
WOULPWlN vour
BEHALF,

... H/S FACE FRAMEO WAN

OPENING OF THE ROCK WALL,
PAINTED TO EWKEALL THE TERROR
HIS SAVA6S ART CAN COHTR/VE

\A SHARP CRY FROM MA&UA BRINGS HIS

FIVe COMPANIONS SMFTLY INTO THC
CAVERN. RESISTANCE IS RVr/tS...

mm
Wt&JFy

whbreA
\SLA \ THEN VOU WILL
LOAieue 3TAW WITH ViOMEH
CAnaine- IMF YOU MEAN HAWK-EYE, HE NOW ANPVOU
THS LONG JAHZ> TH6 (MOHICANS HAVE WILL COM
RIFLe-?J ^ ESCAFEP DOWN THE &VER. ^ WITH t/S^/
Carried by cam?e across rue wen, -me'bound cap-
tives remain suent... though hsynard wrices that am
FAILS TO SUPPRESS A SHUDDER EACH TTME MAGt/A 'S
CRUEL EYES PALL UPON HER FORM./
. BUT RE/VIEIH8ERING HAWK- DEEP WITHIN
EYE'S INSTRUCTIONS TO LANE forest, -me r
S/GNS ALONG THEIR TRA.L, FINALLY STOPS f
CORA PUTS MS? HANDS TO GOOD &sr...d
use.

Wary of their captors'

wg/lanteyes, cora isa8ie to
SNAP TWGS ONLY IN STSAi.ru,,,
AMD THEN, /NrRSOUENTLY.

Thus, believing, that ma<zua . NOW NIAGUA FIGHT'S

wishes only to d'scuss the AGAlMON THESlPEOF
TSffNIS OP RANSOM, HEYINARP THEFRENCH AHX> NOW
ALLOWS THE SAVAGE TO SPEAK MASUA HAS MUNRO'S
TO CORA IN PRIVACY,. ~ DAUGHTERS TO KILL
T IP HE PLEASES.
l/STENl MASOA WANTS MJ
iREINARD
NO MONEY. MA&JA
GREAT HURON CHIEF-- PIR6T
FIGHT CM SIPE OWMDHT-
CAI Nf'1 PRFNCrt THSN .

BUT WHEN MASUA

PRANK FIREWATER AHV
SECASAS VfZUHK, BRITISH CHIEF
MUNRO HAO /V1AGUA T/EVUP
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\HFIHUNRO TO L/VE /SNP SEOTE
FOSBUER IN HB W/GIHMM.

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PARK- HAIl?Et7
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LIKE TO SEE
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THUS, THE LAST OE THE FIVEHVRONS

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THE TWCI?T C IK AN ASHE

XT IS THE FIFTH PAi OF THE FRENCH SIEGE
OF THE FORT. ANP MONTCALM 6TILL PRESSES
HIS ATTACK. COCONEL MONRO HAS FEIN THINGS KIR
WHICH TO BE WAMKFI/C...HIS DAUGHTERS AMHN6
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THEA/I.. , .
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CWNCAN COMS/N! FOR1WE
RETURN Of MY PAUGHTERS I ,

/MUST A,AM THANK YOU AHV

n YOUR FRIENPS-- THE SCOl/T

AND H 16 MOHICAN COMPANIONS

BUT NO MATTER,
I SUPPOSE ...YOU
ABE AiREAOV LIKE
A SON TO ME,
DUNCAN ANP I
,

CAN ONLY <5N YOU MY

CONSENT SCAPLi.
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1UNRO, THAT THIS PffOTRACTEO P//'FFICUIT TO REST&W
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aeneKooa ahv ueer^Ai
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THE FORT MUST BE
oesrmoveo, ofcoubgb..
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6ARR/SOM Or Mfi MAY
MARCH OUT PRB ANP
UNHAFMgP WITH ALL
THE FORTUNES OF
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AHP I WILL LEAP THEM
ALONG THE S7#l&*i
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^
Them,ASMAGuA THE LEAP /S AM smtt&SSs&t* ONE- -
*AfSES#/S OA/E WH/CM WOULPXfci.MOST MEN--
ANP THOuQHMCAS SOMEHOW
9/*WYC TxEEALL, MS .MISSES MS
CG&A'S 9KEAST..
M0RTAUyWOa/tC>ED--AND LIV/A/O 7l,
ONLY Br TH6flACE0eCOUM6AfJDU
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vmtianr,AHO mrn his iAST /" [
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 Th PLACE
CHOSEti FOP COPA
IS A SMALL AHADAL, .,
WUEPEA CLL/S-ra i

OP HEALTHY Pw* v *
HAVE TAKEN POOT
TOPPOV/PE
PEACEFUL *#S4pW.
THE WOMEN OF THE
DELAWARE PLACE

&R/EV/NS, Sl/T AT
LAST F/NDING S1EJ4CJF,
MUMPO, AL/CE. HEVWARO AND &AML/T
depapt pop the ocrrposrs of the i

&&/77SW?AV*tY. APTEP A T/ME WHEN THE

'

ST/N& /S #**&> /F NOT *&p&07-7&M '

AUC AND DUNCAN HEYWAR& W/LL *35.

CAM TfiJ/NK
ONLY OP T/rfF
0SSOP
OF TWO
aw//i/d>s
wag> kneel,
over a mound
op fle&wly
TUPPED
US WAS (S&0J9; HS WAS
fWTsF&A ; HE WAS ^AWKf.
THS SRBAT SPIRIT UAV
4mg&0? SUCH A
HAS- CALLS?
WARRIOR.
4NP HIM A'tWY.

And A/aw, THE TWO

WOODSMEN W/LL SOW
THE/P HEADS 7&a&-
7ME&, WN/LE SCALD
/MS 73FAWSP4LL
8ECOW THEM.. WATER-
"VST/& GRAVE OP
AMORS L/M-E PROPS
OF SLOWLY FALL/NG
AWsM..

4^J?5WJ. LL
,5iAMC/ENT Lf T 8irr 7*ff AWPL/L ST/At A&S&, AND THE BURST OP AE&ZAV& /N
<&?*f42?TttAt&AMTVlP:
THE WORDS OPW/&E, "<5Cl CH/LDREN OP THE A&Z* tWfRXE, ROR THE ANGER
OP THE ##*&& * NOT ggH4T. THEFtRAf&fCES APE MRWmm* OP TA&OMA7W, AND THE T/ME OF
SON OP CH/A/GACHtSOOK HARRY AND 0&R&A>& ; AND YET. BEFORE THE AY&t'T' HAG CO/VIE. JT /SAVE
L/VS& TO SEE THE A4ST M4AW/0A* OF THE W/&E PACE OP THE ^OV/AWS " --^
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