Art by Everett Raymond Kinstler.
Kinstler also painted the official Reagan White House Portrait.
By Robb_K
Everett Kinstler!!! NO WONDER the artwork is so outstanding! It was also nice to have one long story fill the whole book, rather than the choppy, 5 to 7 or 8-paged unrelated stories that usually filled 1950s US Western genre comic books. The only problem I noticed (that Kinstler's Steve Donovan doesn't look at all like Douglas Kennedy, who played the character in the 1955-56 TV series on which the comic was based). Also, Kennedy was 40+ years old during the filming. Clearly, Kinstler didn't base his rendering on stills from the TV series. Interesting that in some scenes he made Donovan look like he was in his 20s, and in others, with more facial detail, he made him look like he COULD be 40.
But those issues don't take away from the story's enjoyability.
Additional Information
Name
0675 - Steve Donovan Western Marshall | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36
Notes
Indicia title is "STEVE DONOVAN WESTERN MARSHAL, No. 675." Code number is S.D.O.S. #675-562. Copyright 1956 by National Broadcasting Company, Inc. Based on the "Steve Donovan, Western Marshal" TV series.
Cover
1 page
Feature
Steve Donovan Western Marshall
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
? (photo)
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Steve Donovan (photo of Douglas Kennedy)
Foreword/Afterword
The Western Marshal (1 page)
Synopsis
Facts about western marshals, leading to a tie-in with Steve Donovan in the last paragraph.
Pencils
? (photos)
Inks
? (photos)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Steve Donovan (photo of Douglas Kennedy); Rusty Lee (photo of Eddy Waller)
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two cropped photos plus typeset article.
Comic Story
Showdown (34 pages)
Synopsis
Steve Donovan and Rusty go to the new town of Spur, where they have to establish law and order among the competing outfits who bring their cattle to be shipped on the railroad.
Feature
Steve Donovan Western Marshal
Genre
Western-frontier
Characters
Steve Donovan; Rusty Lee; Perks; Bent; Nagin
Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Everett Kinstler
Inks
Everett Kinstler
Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" appears in the second tier of panels on the back cover, in the middle of the story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). The name "Ray Kinstler" appears in panel three of page 4, panel two of page 32, and panel two of the back cover.
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