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Issue: Four Color #455
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #455 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Johnny Mack Brown Comics
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/13/1953
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "JOHNNY MACK BROWN COMICS", No. 455." Code number is J.M.B.O.S. #455-533. Copyright 1953 by Johnny Mack Brown. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Pamphlets, page 81.
First Four Color issue after regular Johnny Mack Brown (Dell, 1950) series ends with #10 (September-November 1952).
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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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Johnny Mack Brown Comics

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo); ? (background)
Inker(s): ? (photo); ? (background)
Colorist(s): ? (photo); ? (background)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Johnny Mack Brown (photo)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is an edited photo with a hand-drawn background illustration.
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California's Desert Posse

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: Short article about the modern-day California desert posse, based in the San Bernadino Sheriff's office.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations with typeset text.
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The Race Track Trick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Johnny Mack Brown; Rebel (horse)
Synopsis: Johnny happens upon an accident when a horse falls down a hill and the rider's leg is broken. He takes the man to his nearby ranch, where he finds that this is one of a number of "accidents" that have befallen the rancher and his men recently.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Faces with rather big ears and horses often moving as if flying are points to notice on Sparky Moore art, and later the many closeup faces in sideview. He had most of the stories in Dell's Rin Tin Tin, and also several on Mack Brown and other westerns. He is credited on Johnny Mack Brown by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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The Border Trail

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Synopsis: A taciturn prospector refuses to give directions to a pair of men on the run after a murder, leaving them to pick their own way at a fork in the trail. One way leads to the border, the other to a deathtrap in quicksand.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Text story with two 1/4 page illustrations.
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Johnny Mack Brown and the Glass Scavenger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Johnny Mack Brown; Mule Beardsley
Synopsis: A hotel guest hides a map to his dead brother's gold mine in a bottle and lowers it to a pile of bottles below the window of his room. The next morning two crooks rough him up looking for the map before Johnny interrupts them. After telling Johnny his story, the man finds that the pile of bottles has been taken by a junk man who's building a bottle house in the desert five miles out of town. The house builder turns out to be Mule Beardsley, an old friend of Johnny's.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Most probably this is the work of Marsh, and the faces on page 3 have some of his characteristic protuding lips. The horses are clearly his, as the face of the old man with strawhat. He is credited on Mack Brown by Jerry bails's Who's Who, and had most of the early ones.
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Murder in the Dark

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sheriff Walt Morrison
Synopsis: A stranger rides into Red Rock just before midnight to report a murder. The next morning the stranger rides with the sheriff back to the murder site, but the stranger's story arouses suspicion.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: A generic western story, not Johnny Mack Brown.
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The Prospector's Burro

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, western
Synopsis: Facts about burros.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Two illustrations and hand-lettered text.
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Johnny lighting a lantern

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ? (photo)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Johnny Mack Brown (photo)
Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown lighting an old-fashioned kerosene lantern.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Color photo.

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