Issue: #455
Published: March 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indicia title is "JOHNNY MACK BROWN COMICS", No. 455." Code number is J.M.B.O.S. #455-533. Copyright 1953 by Johnny Mack Brown. First Four Color issue after regular Johnny Mack Brown (Dell, 1950) series ends with #10 (September-November 1952).
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| Cover (1 page) |
Johnny Mack Brown Comics |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photo); ? (background) | Inks: ? (photo); ? (background) | Colours: ? (photo); ? (background) |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Johnny Mack Brown (photo) |
| Text Article (1 page) |
California's Desert Posse |
| Synopsis: |
Short article about the modern-day California desert posse, based in the San Bernadino Sheriff's office. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Western-frontier |
| Comic Story (16 pages) |
The Race Track Trick |
| 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. |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Johnny Mack Brown Rebel (horse) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Border Trail |
| 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 |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
Johnny Mack Brown and the Glass Scavenger |
| 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. |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Johnny Mack Brown Mule Beardsley |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Murder in the Dark |
| 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. |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Sheriff Walt Morrison |
| Illustration (1 page) |
Johnny lighting a lantern |
| Synopsis: |
Johnny Mack Brown lighting an old-fashioned kerosene lantern. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photo) | Inks: ? (photo) | Colours: ? (photo) |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Johnny Mack Brown (photo) |
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