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Issue: Four Color #797
Publication Date: May 1957
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Issues: #797 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Gunsmoke
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
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: none
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "GUNSMOKE, No. 797." Code number is GUNSMOKE O.S. #797-575. Copyright 1957 by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Fourth of five Gunsmoke Four Colors. Based on the CBS-TV series "Gunsmoke."
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Freight War

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 (photo of James Arness)
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In Content Item: FlagAventura #180 published June 1961
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph); ? (art)
Inker(s): ? (photograph): ? (art)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Gunsmoke
Character(s): Matt Dillon (photo of James Arness)
First Line: I'm the man who wears the badge but sometimes only the gun will keep law and order.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAventura #180 published June 1961
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Cropped photo of James Arness as Matt Dillon with drawn background. Four strips of typeset text are laid over the photo/drawing.
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Freight War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Penciller(s): Jim McDonald
Inker(s): Jim McDonald
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Gunsmoke
Character(s): Matt Dillon; Chester; Kitty
Synopsis: Matt suspects that Curry, the area's largest freight hauler, is having his men sabotage his rivals' stages to put them out of business, but has to find evidence to make the charges stick.
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In Content Item: FlagAventura #180 published June 1961
as Competencia Fatal [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Confessed Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Penciller(s): Jim McDonald
Inker(s): Jim McDonald
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Gunsmoke
Character(s): Matt Dillon; Chester; Kitty
Synopsis: Greg Thorne and his father Tad both confess to robbing a stage, but Matt is certain neither one did the deed and tracks down the real robbers.
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In Content Item: FlagAventura #180 published June 1961
as La Confesión [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Script, pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Dodge City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Penciller(s): Jim McDonald
Inker(s): Jim McDonald
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, western
Synopsis: Facts about the founding and early days of Dodge City.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Wells Fargo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Penciller(s): Jim McDonald
Inker(s): Jim McDonald
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, western
Synopsis: Facts about the early days of the Wells Fargo stage line.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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