Issue | #731 |
Published | October 1956 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Indicia title is "Max Brand's SILVERTIP AND THE FIGHTING FOUR, No. 731." Code number is SILVERTIP O.S. #731-5610. Copyright 1956 by Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. Sixth of nine Silvertip Four Colors. |
Characters | Silvertip; Parade (horse); Frosty (wolf) |
Genre | western |
Pencils | Sam Savitt (painting) |
Inks | Sam Savitt (painting) |
Colors | Sam Savitt (painting) |
Notes | Art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4 (August 2002). |
Characters | Silvertip; Oliver Wayland; Jimmy Lovell (villain); Bray (villain) |
Synopsis | Introduction of main characters and preview of the story. |
Genre | western |
Pencils | Everett Raymond Kinstler |
Inks | Everett Raymond Kinstler |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Four illustrations with brief typeset text. |
Characters | Silvertip; Oliver Wayland; Jimmy Lovell (villain); Bray (villain); Parade (horse; Frosty (wolf) |
Synopsis | Four outlaws hold up Elkdale's bank and take a half-million dollars. Three are captured but a fourth escapes with the money. Oliver Wayland, the bank teller who lost his courage, tries to find it by tracking down Jimmy Lovell,the escaped outlaw who failed to keep a bargain. Bray, the gang's chief, leads a jailbreak to get revenge, but runs afoul of Silvertip, who finds he's been tricked into protecting Lovell. |
Genre | western |
Pencils | Everett Raymond Kinstler |
Inks | Everett Raymond Kinstler |
Notes | Story concludes on the inside back cover in black and white. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Adapted from the 1933 novel "The Fighting Four" by Max Brand. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Promo for "Luke Short's Bounty Guns" (Four Color #739). No cover reproduction. Promo comes at the bottom of the last interior page, in the middle of the story. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Back cover. Illustrated ad for Trix breakfast cereal. |