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Issue Details

Issue #269
Published March 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "JOHNNY MACK BROWN, No. 269." Code number is J.M.B.O.S. #269-503. Copyright 1950 by Johnny Mack Brown. Continues as Johnny Mack Brown #2 (October-December 1950)

Cover Details - "Law for the Badlands"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Cover title is "Law for the Badlands", but the title for the one interior story is "The Red Arrow Rustlers."

1 page Johnny Mack Brown foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Red Arrow Rustlers"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown; Tub Porter; Marian Quintain; Squint Beloit; Buck Gunderson; Marcus Quintain; Marshal Hunter
Synopsis Portraits of the main characters of the story; done as "wanted posters" tacked on the side of a building.
Genre western
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

48 page Johnny Mack Brown story "The Red Arrow Rustlers"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown; Tub Porter; Marian Quintain; Squint Beloit; Buck Gunderson; Marcus Quintain; Marshal Hunter
Synopsis The Red Arrow gang is stealing herds of cattle being driven to Dodge City. Johnny becomes involved when they steal the herd of his friends Tub and Squint on the Box-H ranch.
Genre western
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Jesse Marsh
Inks Jesse Marsh
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Johnny Mack Brown filler "Johnny Mack Brown Photos"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown (photos)
Genre western
Pencils ?; ? (photos)
Inks ?; ? (photos)
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Four photos of Johnny Mack Brown (three cropped from larger photos) plus incidental drawings of saddle, gun belt, etc.

1 page Johnny Mack Brown illustration "Johnny Mack Brown Pin-up"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown (photo)
Synopsis Photo of Johnny Mack Brown in black shirt with red trim, cradling a rifle and leaning on a fence.
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes Back cover. Pin-up photo.