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Issue Details

Issue #739
Published October 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Luke Short's Bounty Guns." Code number is B.G. O.S. #739-5610. Copyright 1956 by Frederick D. Glidden.

Cover Details - "Luke Short's Bounty Guns"

Genre western
Pencils Sam Savitt (painted)
Inks Sam Savitt (painted)
Colors Sam Savitt (painted)
Notes Pencils, inks, and colors credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Cast of Characters"

Characters Sheriff Ball; Tip Woodring; Buck Shields; Rig Holman
Synopsis Introduction of main characters in the story.
Genre western
Pencils Mort Drucker
Inks Mort Drucker
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Four illustrations with brief typeset text. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

32 page story "Luke Short's Bounty Guns"

Characters Sheriff Ball; Tip Woodring; Buck Shields; Rig Holman
Synopsis After losing his ranch and stock to a drought, Tip Woodring comes to the cow town of Hagen, where he is hired to find out which of two feuding clans killed a prospector for his gold strike.
Genre western
Script Luke Short (original story); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils Mort Drucker
Inks Mort Drucker
Notes Story concludes on inside back cover in black and white. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1939 novel "Bounty Gun" by Luke Short. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Half page Silvertip promo (ad from the publisher) "Silvertip and the Fighting Four"

Characters Silvertip (cameo)
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Promo for "Max Brand's Silvertip and the Fighting Four" (Four Color #731 (October 1956)). Line-drawn version of painted cover of the comic is depicted.

1 page filler "The Bounty Hunter"

Genre western; fact
Notes Back cover. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some issues. See sequence 5.

1 page Trix; General Mills advertisement "The Happy Cereal"

Genre children
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for Trix breakfast cereal. This ad replaces Sequence 4 in some issues.