(October 1956)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Max Brand's SILVERTIP AND THE FIGHTING FOUR, No. 731." Code number is SILVERTIP O.S. #731-5610. Copyright 1956 by Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. Sixth of nine Silvertip Four Colors.
Silvertip and the Fighting Four
Max Brand's Silvertip / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Inks:
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Colors:
- Sam Savitt (painting)
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Silvertip; Parade (horse); Frosty (wolf)
Indexer Notes
Art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4 (August 2002).
[Cast of Characters]
Max Brand's Silvertip / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Inks:
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Silvertip; Oliver Wayland; Jimmy Lovell (villain); Bray (villain)
- Synopsis:
- Introduction of main characters and preview of the story.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Four illustrations with brief typeset text.
Max Brand's Silvertip and the Fighting Four
Max Brand's Silvertip / comic story / 32.67 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Inks:
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- western
- Characters:
- Silvertip; Oliver Wayland; Jimmy Lovell (villain); Bray (villain); Parade (horse; Frosty (wolf)
- Synopsis:
- Four outlaws hold up Elkdale's bank and take a half-million dollars. Three are captured but a fourth escapes with the money. Oliver Wayland, the bank teller who lost his courage, tries to find it by tracking down Jimmy Lovell,the escaped outlaw who failed to keep a bargain. Bray, the gang's chief, leads a jailbreak to get revenge, but runs afoul of Silvertip, who finds he's been tricked into protecting Lovell.
Indexer Notes
Story concludes on the inside back cover in black and white. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Adapted from the 1933 novel "The Fighting Four" by Max Brand.
["Caught!...In the crackling crossfire..."]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Promo for "Luke Short's Bounty Guns" (Four Color #739). No cover reproduction. Promo comes at the bottom of the last interior page, in the middle of the story.
The Happy Cereal
Trix; General Mills / advertisement / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Illustrated ad for Trix breakfast cereal.
Table of Contents
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1.
[Cast of Characters]
Max Brand's Silvertip -
2.
Max Brand's Silvertip and the Fighting Four
Max Brand's Silvertip -
3.
["Caught!...In the crackling crossfire..."]
-
4.
The Happy Cereal
Trix; General Mills
- Merlin Haas
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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