| Issue | #839 |
| Published | September 1957 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | ? |
| Notes | Indicia title is "THE VIGILANTES, No. 839." Code number is "VIGILANTES O.S. 839-579. Copyright 1957 by Western Printing & Lithographing. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Sam Savitt (painting) |
| Inks | Sam Savitt (painting) |
| Colors | Sam Savitt (painting) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Indicia title is "THE VIGILANTES, No. 839." Code number is "VIGILANTES O.S. 839-579. Copyright 1957 by Western Printing & Lithographing. |
| Synopsis | Historical background of the forming of vigilante groups in boom towns and mining camps of the Old West. |
| Genre | fact; western |
| Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
| Inks | Bill Ziegler |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations (One complete panel and one cropped figure from the stories) and typeset text. |
| Characters | Brace Wade; Parson Jeb Wright |
| Synopsis | Dart Maddon organizes an army of paid killers to rule the town of Conestoga in the High Sierras in 1859. Brace Wade comes to town and helps Parson Jeb Wright organize an vigilante group to take control from Maddon. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
| Inks | Bill Ziegler |
| Notes | Introduction to series. Pencils and inks credits from Steven Rowe (via e-mail December 19, 2008). |
| Characters | Brace Wade; Parson Jeb Wright |
| Synopsis | Gold is discovered at Yellow Creek. The Golden Glow Mining Company is storing its gold in its mine tunnels for later shipment. A gang plans to rob the mine and tricks the vigilantes of Conestoga into riding into a trap, where they are put to work digging a tunnel to the stored gold. The Parson and Brace, who had been out of town when the other men left, later come to Yellow Creek later and find that their men had never arrived. With help from the mining company men, the Parson and Wade rescue the Conestoga men and capture the gang. |
| Genre | western |
| Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
| Inks | Bill Ziegler |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credits from Steven Rowe (via e-mail December 19, 2008). |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Promo for "The Nature of Things" Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #842. No cover reproduction. |
| Characters | Henry Plummer |
| Synopsis | Vigilantes in Alder Gulch, Montana, capture an gang of outlaws led by Henry Plummer. |
| Genre | fact; western |
| Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
| Inks | Bill Ziegler |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. |
| Synopsis | History of the vigilante organization in San Francisco in the 1850s-1860s. |
| Genre | fact; western |
| Pencils | Bill Ziegler |
| Inks | Bill Ziegler |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Panels with typeset text underneath. |