Four Color
#839 - The Vigilantes
(September 1957)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
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Dell
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE VIGILANTES, No. 839." Code number is "VIGILANTES O.S. 839-579. Copyright 1957 by Western Printing & Lithographing. Copies exist with either 10 cent or 15 cent prices.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
West of the Law
The Vigilantes / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Inks
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Colors
- Sam Savitt (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
in 
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The Vigilantes
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Historical background of the forming of vigilante groups in boom towns and mining camps of the Old West.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations (One complete panel and one cropped figure from the stories) and typeset text.
West of the Law
The Vigilantes / comic story / 18 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Brace Wade; Parson Jeb Wright
- Synopsis
- Dart Maddon organizes an army of paid killers to rule the town of Conestoga in the High Sierras in 1859. Brace Wade comes to town and helps Parson Jeb Wright organize an vigilante group to take control from Maddon.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Introduction to series. Pencils and inks credits from Steven Rowe (via e-mail December 19, 2008).
The Gold Grabbers
The Vigilantes / comic story / 13.67 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Brace Wade; Parson Jeb Wright
- Synopsis
- Gold is discovered at Yellow Creek. The Golden Glow Mining Company is storing its gold in its mine tunnels for later shipment. A gang plans to rob the mine and tricks the vigilantes of Conestoga into riding into a trap, where they are put to work digging a tunnel to the stored gold. The Parson and Brace, who had been out of town when the other men left, later come to Yellow Creek and find that their men had never arrived. With help from the mining company men, the Parson and Wade rescue the Conestoga men and capture the gang.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits from Steven Rowe (via e-mail December 19, 2008).
The Nature of Things
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
Indexer Notes
Promo for "The Nature of Things" Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #842. No cover reproduction.
Boom Town Law
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
- Characters
- Henry Plummer
- Synopsis
- Vigilantes in Alder Gulch, Montana, capture an gang of outlaws led by Henry Plummer.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Editing
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Table of Contents
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West of the Law
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The Vigilantes
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West of the Law
The Vigilantes -
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The Gold Grabbers
The Vigilantes -
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The Nature of Things
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Boom Town Law
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Wanted...Justice!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Jochen G.
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
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