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Issue: Gunsmoke #27

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Publication Date: June 1961

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Issues: #27 of 22 Issues (28 Printings)

Title:

Variant: U.S. Cover Price

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Dell

Brand: Dell

Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 05/02/1961

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.15 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

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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Gunsmoke #27 [U.S. Cover Price]

Gunsmoke #27 [British]

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (11 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Jim Arness (as Marshal Matt Dillon)

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Pages: 1

Smoked Out City/The Intruder

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: western

Character(s): Marshal Matt Dillon; Doc Adams

Synopsis: Table of contents page with previews of the two main stories.

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Pages: 1

Smoked Out City

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Genres: western

Character(s): Marshal Matt Dillon; Kitty; Chester;

Synopsis: Kitty accidentally pulls off the tarpaulin of a wagon and starts Matt on a search for the wagon driver's secret. Later, Dodge City is covered with blinding smoke as bold outlaws carry off a fantastic scheme amid whining bullets.

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Pages: 14

Notes: Synopsis taken from inside cover.

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Feature(s): Dell Comics Contest

First Line: Win Jet to Hollywood!

Synopsis: Description of Dell Comics Contest and the available prizes.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Contest rules require top strips of DELL COMIC Covers as proof that comics were purchased. This feaure appears between pages two and three of the first story in this issue.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Dell Trading Post

First Line: Start trading now at the Dell trading post

Synopsis: Instructions on trading the top 1/4 covers of comics for prizes.

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Pages: 2

Notes: This actually competes with the contest that appears earlier in the issue.

The Buried Clue

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Genres: western

Character(s): Sheriff Dan Brewer; Hake Matrin; Gil Dean

Synopsis: A sheriff locates evidence of a robbery in a fence post hole.

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Pages: 1

The Amazing Dog Race

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Genres: western

Feature(s): Dodge City Days

Character(s): James H. Kelley; Archie Keech; Simpson

Synopsis: A rancher buys the runt of a greyhound litter and trains it as a champion racer.

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Pages: 4

The Intruder

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Genres: western

Character(s): Marshal Matt Dillon; Kitty; Doc Adams

Synopsis: Doc Adams' sleep is disturbed one night by a most unusual thief whose interest in literature leaves Doc baffled. The thief's trail leads Matt Dillon into a dangerous cross fire, as he becomes the target of a gold-greedy man.

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Pages: 9.5

Notes: Synopsis taken the contents page.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Space Map; Super Jets

Character(s): Commander Jet

First Line: Commander Jet says...

Synopsis: Ad for Red Ball Jets sports shoes.

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Pages: 0.5

Prairie Fires

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Genres: western

Synopsis: A short story about the perils of prairie fires.

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Pages: 1

Notes: inside back cover

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Feature(s): Arnold, Schwinn & Co.

First Line: Never Before... such a bike... genuine Schwinn quality for so little money!

Synopsis: Schwinn bicycle advertisement.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.