Having been adapted from a novel the story is more complex and involves more characters than your typical comic story. The writer (Paul S. Newman if I'm not mistaken) does a great job of keeping things understandable, and Everett Raymond Kinstler's art is perfect. An excellent book.
By Ger Apeldoorn
Four Color #534 seems like one of those Kunstler books that has some involvement by Joe Kubert.
By The Australian Panther
I can see why you say that, thanks for pointing it out. I don't think Kubert did very much work for Dell tho, so maybe he helped out in the studio. It was not unknown for artists to help each other out by ghosting when a friend had a deadline to meet.
These Dell Haycock westerns are all gems.
By crashryan
I respectfully disagree that Kubert was involved in this or O.S. 640 (another "Western Marshal"). Is there an interview somewhere that says he worked with Everett Kinstler? I have great admiration for Kinstler but I also acknowledge that he swiped like crazy in his comic book work. Check out the Kubert stories in Avon's "Jesse James," for example. You'll see that Kinstler not only was influenced artistically by Kubert, he also lifted tons of Kubert figures, even whole panels, for his own westerns. Looking at the totality of his Dell work, I'd say these "Western Marshal" comics were both pencilled and inked by Kinstler.
Additional Information
Publication
February 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1
Featuring
Ernest Haycox's Western Marshal
Credits
Letters: typeset
Content
Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Dan Mitchell
Illustration
Map of River Bend (1 page)
Synopsis
Map of River Bend, setting for the story.
Credits
Letters: typeset
Content
Genre: Western-frontier
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white.
Comic Story
Western Marshal (34 pages)
Synopsis
Sheriff Dan Mitchell tries to balance the competing interests of a trail town. One half is the gamblers and saloon men on one side of town, the other is the merchants and law-abiding people on the other side. Each needs the other to survive.
Credits
Script:? (comic adaptation)
Content
Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Dan Mitchell
Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Adapted from the 1941 novel "Trail Town" by Ernest Haycox. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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