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| Publication | March 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Cover is an edited photo with a hand-drawn background illustration. |
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| Cover | Johnny Mack Brown Comics |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo);? (background) | Inks:? (photo);? (background) | Colors:? (photo);? (background) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Johnny Mack Brown (photo) |
| Notes | Cover is an edited photo with a hand-drawn background illustration. |
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| Text Article | California's Desert Posse (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Short article about the modern-day California desert posse, based in the San Bernadino Sheriff's office. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations with typeset text. |
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| Comic Story | The Race Track Trick (16 pages) |
| Synopsis | Johnny happens upon an accident when a horse falls down a hill and the rider's leg is broken. He takes the man to his nearby ranch, where he finds that this is one of a number of "accidents" that have befallen the rancher and his men recently. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Johnny Mack Brown; Rebel (horse) |
| Notes | Faces with rather big ears and horses often moving as if flying are points to notice on Sparky Moore art, and later the many closeup faces in sideview. He had most of the stories in Dell's Rin Tin Tin, and also several on Mack Brown and other westerns. He is credited on Johnny Mack Brown by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Text Story | The Border Trail (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A taciturn prospector refuses to give directions to a pair of men on the run after a murder, leaving them to pick their own way at a fork in the trail. One way leads to the border, the other to a deathtrap in quicksand. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Text story with two 1/4 page illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | Johnny Mack Brown and the Glass Scavenger (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A hotel guest hides a map to his dead brother's gold mine in a bottle and lowers it to a pile of bottles below the window of his room. The next morning two crooks rough him up looking for the map before Johnny interrupts them. After telling Johnny his story, the man finds that the pile of bottles has been taken by a junk man who's building a bottle house in the desert five miles out of town. The house builder turns out to be Mule Beardsley, an old friend of Johnny's. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Johnny Mack Brown; Mule Beardsley |
| Notes | Most probably this is the work of Marsh, and the faces on page 3 have some of his characteristic protuding lips. The horses are clearly his, as the face of the old man with strawhat. He is credited on Mack Brown by Jerry bails's Who's Who, and had most of the early ones. |
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| Comic Story | Murder in the Dark (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A stranger rides into Red Rock just before midnight to report a murder. The next morning the stranger rides with the sheriff back to the murder site, but the stranger's story arouses suspicion. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sheriff Walt Morrison |
| Notes | A generic western story, not Johnny Mack Brown. |
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| Text Article | The Prospector's Burro (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about burros. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Two illustrations and hand-lettered text. |
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| Illustration | Johnny lighting a lantern (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Johnny Mack Brown lighting an old-fashioned kerosene lantern. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Colors:? (photo) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Johnny Mack Brown (photo) |
| Notes | Back cover. Color photo. |
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