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Issue Details

Issue #591
Published October 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Ernest Haycox's Western Marshall, No. 591." Code number is W.M.O.S. #591-5410. Copyright 1954 by Jill Marie Haycox.

Cover Details

Characters Dan Mitchell
Genre western
Pencils Hank Hartman (painting; signed)
Inks Hank Hartman (painting; signed)
Colors Hank Hartman (painting; signed)
Notes Indicia title is "Ernest Haycox's Western Marshall, No. 591." Code number is W.M.O.S. #591-5410. Copyright 1954 by Jill Marie Haycox.

1 page filler "Gold!"

Synopsis Facts about the different methods of panning for gold.
Genre western; fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations with typeset text.

34 page Western Marshal story "The Spanish Mine"

Characters Dan Mitchell; Tom Leathers
Synopsis After resigning as marshal of River Bend, Dan Mitchell intends to get married and take up ranching. However, he is pressed into service as a marshal again when the marshal of Grubstake, a gold boomtown, is shot. Mitchell has to keep the peace between miners and "jumpers," who use a technicality in the claim law to take over any claim that hasn't been worked in a week. Complicating matters is Carson, who owns a lake that has water that miners need to process their gold, but refuses to sell them any of it.
Genre western
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Sequel to "Western Marshal" in Four Color #534 (February 1954). Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)