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Issue Details

Issue #534
Published February 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Ernest Haycox's WESTERN MARSHAL, No. 534." Code number is W.M.O.S. #534-542. Copyright 1953 by The Estate of Ernest Haycox.

Cover Details

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

1 page filler "Map of River Bend"

Synopsis Map of River Bend, setting for the story.
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

34 page story "Western Marshal"

Characters Dan Mitchell
Synopsis Sheriff Dan Mitchell tries to balance the competing interests of a trail town. One half is the gamblers and saloon men on one side of town, the other is the merchants and law-abiding people on the other side. Each needs the other to survive.
Genre western
Script Ernest Haycox (original story); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Adapted from the 1941 novel "Trail Town" by Ernest Haycox. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)