Four Color
#769 - Gunsmoke
(February 1957)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- George Delacorte (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "GUNSMOKE, No. 769." Code number is GUNSMOKE O.S. #769-572. Copyright 1956 by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Third of five Gunsmoke Four Colors. Based on the "Gunsmoke" TV series.
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[no title indexed]
Gunsmoke / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Matt Dillon (photos of James Arness)
- Synopsis
- Intro to series.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Four photos with typeset text.
The Marshal's Gamble
Gunsmoke / comic story / 17 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Matt Dillon; Chester; Kitty
- Synopsis
- Matt Dillon catches gambler Dodd using a marked deck in a card game. Later Dodd is robbed of the casino's receipts by masked men who he identifies as members of the Bar W, the same outfit he was cheating with the marked cards. Dillon brings two Bar W men to jail, but isn't sure if Dodd is lying to him to get revenge on the Bar W men.
- Reprints
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in Indexer Notes
"The Gunsmoke artist is Jim McLaughlin (long faces, narrow jaw, etc.). He worked at Ace before they folded..." from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Hames Ware says McLaughlin ID in the Who's Who of American Comic Books originally came from Lou Cameron.
Art ID by Steinar Ådland December 2010.
Crossfire
Gunsmoke / comic story / 17 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Matt Dillon; Chester; Kitty (cameo)
- Synopsis
- When gunfighter Jim Jasps' brother is jailed for stealing a horse, Jasps threatens Matt Dillon with gunplay if he isn't released.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Marshal's Gamble
Gunsmoke -
1.
[no title indexed]
Gunsmoke -
2.
The Marshal's Gamble
Gunsmoke -
3.
Crossfire
Gunsmoke
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Steinar Ådland
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Tristan Lapoussière
- Keith Alan Morgan
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