| Issue | #491 |
| Published | August 1953 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | ? |
| Notes | Indicia title is "Max Brand's SILVERTIP, No. 491." Code number is SILVERTIP O.S. #491-538. "Picturized version based upon the novel "Silvertip" by Max Brand, Copyright, 1933, 1952, by Frederick Faust." First of nine Four Color Silvertip issues. |
| Characters | Silvertip |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | ? (painting) |
| Inks | ? (painting) |
| Colors | ? (painting) |
| Synopsis | Map of the area where the story takes place, with teaser for the story. |
| Genre | western |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. |
| Characters | Silvertip; Bandini |
| Synopsis | Silvertip meets up with Bandini, an old enemy, and another man is killed when Bandini tries to ambush Silvertip. Silvertip takes the dead man's horse back to his father to tell him of his son's death and finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud between the Mexican Casa Monterey and the gringo Drummon Ranch. |
| Genre | western |
| Script | Max Brand (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 1933 novel "Silvertip" by Max Brand. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |