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Issue Details

Issue #645
Published September 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "JOHNNY MACK BROWN, No. 645." Code number is J.M.B. O.S. #645-559. Copyright 1955 by Johnny Mack Brown.

Cover Details

Characters Johnny Mack Brown (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "A Pledge to Parents"

Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

18 page Johnny Mack Brown story "Outlaw Town"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown; Rebel (horse)
Synopsis Johnny is mistaken for Jack Tabb, a gunman and bank robber, and is taken to the town of Starbuck, where a gangleader is determined to turn it into an wide-open "outlaw town."
Genre western
Pencils Sparky Moore
Inks Sparky Moore
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

16 page Johnny Mack Brown story "The Phantom Surprise"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown; Rebel (horse)
Synopsis After being shot at in an ambush, Johnny pretends to be dead when a stagecoach stops and takes him to the next town. At his "funeral," Johnny, in disguise, recognizes one of the mourners as Switch Connors, an ex-con. Using the name Tom Malone, he has gotten a job at the bank in order to steal a shipment of $500,000 when it arrives at the bank from the mint.
Genre western
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh
Letters Jesse Marsh
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Inscription on a grave marker on page six of the story reads "RIP Jesse M He drawed too slow"