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Issue Details

Issue #640
Published August 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Ernest Haycox's WESTERN MARSHAL, No. 640." Code number is W.M.O.S. #640-558. Copyright 1955 by Jill Marie Haycox. Fourth of four Western Marshall Four Colors.

Cover Details

Characters Dan Mitchell
Genre western
Pencils Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

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 Western Marshal story "Western Marshal and the Iron Horse"

Characters Dan Mitchell; Tom Leathers; Sherry (cameo)
Synopsis Dan Mitchell has to put on the Marshal's star again and try to keep the peace between crews laying railroad track and wagon haulers, who are afraid the railroad will put them out of business.
Genre western
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)