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Issue: Gunsmoke #8
Publication Date: April 1958
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Issues: #8 of 22 Issues (28 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 10¢ Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Six Gun Fury

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Gunsmoke
Character(s): Matt Dillon (photograph of James Arness)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAventura #251 published October 1962
as Boca del lobo [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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There's Three Things a Marshall Should Never Lose...

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Gunsmoke
Character(s): Matt Dillon (photos of James Arness)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Four photos from Gunsmoke TV series, two of which feature James Arness as Matt Dillon.
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The Taming of Bull Halloran

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Matt Dillon; Chester
Synopsis: Matt Dillon has to protect some crooked gamblers after they swindle a track-laying crew outside the Dodge City limits.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: The Gunsmoke artist is Jim McLaughlin (long faces, narrow jaw, etc.). He worked at Ace before they folded.
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One Trick Too Many

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): True Tales of Dodge City
Synopsis: Buffalo hunter Levi Richardson's fast shooting fails him in a showdown over a poker game.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Script ID taken from Paul S. Newman's personal records.
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Gun Hand

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Synopsis: Sherrif Hal Gordon has to face a gunman after suffering a severe rope burn on his gun hand.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with 1/8 page illustration.
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Six-Gun Fury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Matt Dillon; Chester; Kitty (cameo)
Synopsis: Hardcases Brace Duveen and Chip Younger harass a trapper and his Indian companion.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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The Track Gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: Facts about the crews who built the railroad tracks in the old west.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.
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The Fur Trapper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: Facts about fur-trappers.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Last panel is Dell's "Pledge to Parents."

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