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Issue Details

Issue #637
Published July 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Max Brand's SILVERTIP, No. 637." Code number is SILVERTIP O.S. #637-557. Copyright 1955 by Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. Fourth of nine Silvertip Four Colors.

Cover Details

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

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Dell is proud to present one of its many awards..."

Synopsis Facsimile of Distinguished Achievement Award given Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. by Newsdealers Post Number 1169 American Legion on November 14, 1954.
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Also includes typeset version of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." (not in usual form.)

34 page Silvertip story "Silvertip's Roundup"

Characters Silvertip; Parade (horse; Frosty (wolf)
Synopsis Passkey Jones, the traveling locksmith, comes to Horseshoe Flat to kill Pat Brennan. Brennan killed Jones' friend, Joe Feely. Jones gets captured by Brennan and his friends, who are part of a gang led by Bat Lewis. Silvertip has to find Jones and rescue him from Lewis and his gang.
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. Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Based on the 1933 novel "Silvertip's Roundup" by Max Brand. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)