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Issue: Four Color #1012
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #1012 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Last Train from Gun Hill
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell A Movie ClassicView Brand Images
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL, No 1012".
Code number is L.T.GUNHILL O.S. #1012-597.
Copyright 1959 by Paramount Pictures Corporation. Adapted from the 1959 movie "Last Train to Gun Hill".
"Movie Classic" on cover.
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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
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Last Train From Gun Hill

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Matt Morgan (photo of Kirk Douglas); Craig Belden (photo of Anthony Quinn); Linda (photo of Carolyn Jones); Rick Belden (photo of Earl Holliman)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Photo cover is scene from the movie, with the background cropped out.
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Last Train from Gun Hill

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Matt Morgan (photo of Kirk Douglas); Craig Belden (photo of Anthony Quinn)
Synopsis: Preview of the story.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Five photos and a partial list of cast and credits from the movie. Craig Belden is misidentified as Clay Belden in the preview.
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Last Train From Gun Hill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s): Tom Gill
Inker(s): Tom Gill
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Matt Morgan; Craig Belden; Rick Belden; Lee Smithers; Linda
Synopsis: A search for the killer of his Cherokee wife takes Marshall Matt Morgan to Gun Hill. The town is run by Craig Belden, who used to be a partner with Morgan. Belden's son Rick Belden and his friend Lee Smithers are the two who caused Morgan's wife's death and Belden won't let Morgan take his son. With the help of Linda, who spurned Craig Belden's overtures to her, Morgan is able to take his captive, Rick Belden, to the train station. This leads to a showdown involving Morgan, Smithers, and Craig Belden.
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Based on the 1959 movie "Last Train to Gun Hill", with some of the violence and all of the sexual situations of the original deleted.

Script submitted January 31, 1959. Script credit from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
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The West's Iron Men

Filler  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois ?
Penciller(s): Tom Gill
Inker(s): Tom Gill
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, western
Character(s): Wyatt Earp (cameo); Pat Garrett (cameo); Bat Masterson (cameo)
Synopsis: Facts about lawmen of the old West.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.

A script for this sequence was submitted under the title "White Blood and Red" on February 14, 1959, but the content of the published page does not seem to match the title. Script credit from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
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Movie scenes

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Matt Morgan (photo of Kirk Douglas); Craig Belden (photo of Anthony Quinn)
Synopsis: An action photo from the movie; a posed (?) photo of Kirk Douglas drawing his handgun; and some promo text for the story.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Monochrome photos with typeset text. Photo of Douglas has background cropped out.

Script sent February 14, 1959, under the title "Six Gun Showdown". Script credit from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).

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