Four Color
#455 - Johnny Mack Brown Comics
(March 1953)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1953-01-13
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "JOHNNY MACK BROWN COMICS", No. 455." Code number is J.M.B.O.S. #455-533. Copyright 1953 by Johnny Mack Brown. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Pamphlets, page 81.
First Four Color issue after regular Johnny Mack Brown (Dell, 1950) series ends with #10 (September-November 1952).
First Four Color issue after regular Johnny Mack Brown (Dell, 1950) series ends with #10 (September-November 1952).
Johnny Mack Brown Comics
Johnny Mack Brown / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Mack Brown (photo)
Indexer Notes
Cover is an edited photo with a hand-drawn background illustration.
California's Desert Posse
text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- August Lenox (signed)
- Inks
- August Lenox (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Short article about the modern-day California desert posse, based in the San Bernadino Sheriff's office.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations with typeset text.
The Race Track Trick
Johnny Mack Brown / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Mack Brown; Rebel (horse)
- Synopsis
- Johnny happens upon an accident when a horse falls down a hill and the rider's leg is broken. He takes the man to his nearby ranch, where he finds that this is one of a number of "accidents" that have befallen the rancher and his men recently.
Indexer Notes
Faces with rather big ears and horses often moving as if flying are points to notice on Sparky Moore art, and later the many closeup faces in sideview. He had most of the stories in Dell's Rin Tin Tin, and also several on Mack Brown and other westerns. He is credited on Johnny Mack Brown by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
The Border Trail
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- A taciturn prospector refuses to give directions to a pair of men on the run after a murder, leaving them to pick their own way at a fork in the trail. One way leads to the border, the other to a deathtrap in quicksand.
Indexer Notes
Text story with two 1/4 page illustrations.
Johnny Mack Brown and the Glass Scavenger
Johnny Mack Brown / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Mack Brown; Mule Beardsley
- Synopsis
- A hotel guest hides a map to his dead brother's gold mine in a bottle and lowers it to a pile of bottles below the window of his room. The next morning two crooks rough him up looking for the map before Johnny interrupts them. After telling Johnny his story, the man finds that the pile of bottles has been taken by a junk man who's building a bottle house in the desert five miles out of town. The house builder turns out to be Mule Beardsley, an old friend of Johnny's.
Indexer Notes
Most probably this is the work of Marsh, and the faces on page 3 have some of his characteristic protuding lips. The horses are clearly his, as the face of the old man with strawhat. He is credited on Mack Brown by Jerry bails's Who's Who, and had most of the early ones.
Murder in the Dark
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Sheriff Walt Morrison
- Synopsis
- A stranger rides into Red Rock just before midnight to report a murder. The next morning the stranger rides with the sheriff back to the murder site, but the stranger's story arouses suspicion.
Indexer Notes
A generic western story, not Johnny Mack Brown.
The Prospector's Burro
text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Till Goodan (signed)
- Inks
- Till Goodan (signed)
- Letters
- Till Goodan
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Facts about burros.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Two illustrations and hand-lettered text.
[Johnny lighting a lantern]
Johnny Mack Brown / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny Mack Brown (photo)
- Synopsis
- Johnny Mack Brown lighting an old-fashioned kerosene lantern.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Color photo.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Johnny Mack Brown Comics
Johnny Mack Brown -
1.
California's Desert Posse
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2.
The Race Track Trick
Johnny Mack Brown -
3.
The Border Trail
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4.
Johnny Mack Brown and the Glass Scavenger
Johnny Mack Brown -
5.
Murder in the Dark
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6.
The Prospector's Burro
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7.
[Johnny lighting a lantern]
Johnny Mack Brown
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- Steinar Ådland
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Pat Conolly
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Keith Alan Morgan
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