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Issue Details

Issue #898
Published May 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Max Brand's SILVERTIP, No. 898". Code number is SILVERTIP O.S. #898-585". "Picturized version based upon "Silvertip's Trap," by Max Brand, copyright 1933, 1943 by Frederick Faust." Ninth of nine Silvertip Four Color issues.

Cover Details - "The Trap"

Characters Silvertip
Genre western
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page Silvertip foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Preview"

Characters Silvertip; Sam Fisk; Bill Naylor
Synopsis Preview of the main story.
Genre western
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

32 page Silvertip story "Silvertip's Trap"

Characters Silvertip; Taxi; Parade (horse); Bill Naylor; Sam Fisk (villain); Duff Gregor (villain)
Synopsis Drifter Bill Naylor saves outlaw Sam Fisk after Fisk jumps off a high bridge to escape being taken to jail by Silvertip. Naylor helps Fisk rebuild his gang, but then has a change of heart when Fisk plans to ambush Silvertip, who had befriended him.
Genre western
Script Max Brand (original story); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Based on "Silvertip's Trap," by Max Brand. Silvertip is offstage most of the story, which is centered on Bill Naylor. This is sort of a sequel to the story in Silvertip Four Color #835, with the ending scenes of that story becoming the beginning scenes of this one. Duff Gregor, Silvertip's look-alike, is introduced in #835, but Silvertip's arch-enemy is called Barry Christian then, not Sam Fisk.

1 page filler "America's First Train Robbers"

Synopsis Illustrated story of the Reno Gang, the first train robbers in America.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page filler "Windmills"

Synopsis Facts about windmills used to pump water in the West.
Genre western; fact
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Back cover, color. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents".