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Issue Details

Issue #722
Published September 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "JOHNNY MACK BROWN, No. 722." Code number is J.M.B. O.S. #722-569. Copyright 1956 by Johnny Mack Brown. Ninth of 13 Johnny Mack Brown Four Colors.

Cover Details - "Silent Men"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown (photo)
Genre western
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset

1 page filler "The Rough Riders"

Characters Theodore Roosevelt
Synopsis Facts about the Rough Riders regiment in the Spanish-American War.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Typeset text and illustrations.

18 page Johnny Mack Brown story "The Silent Men"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown; Rebel (horse)
Synopsis While on his way to visit the Sheriff in Big Horn, Johnny stops at the tiny town of Deer Ford, only to get a cold reception from the townsfolk.
Genre western

14 page Johnny Mack Brown story "The Good Samaritan"

Characters Johnny Mack Brown; Rebel (horse); Abney Streetch
Synopsis After the school in Shallow Creek burns, miser Abney Streetch volunteers to provide the funds from his bank account in Great Falls. Johnny goes along as a guard, but on the way back the stage is robbed. Over a period of weeks, the townsfolk raise the money for the school themselves. Streetch volunteers to count the bills and coins, with Johnny standing guard, but Streetch slugs Johnny with the butt of a gun and tries to escape with the town's money, in the climax of an elaborate scheme of fraud that started with the burning of the school.
Genre western
Notes Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is the fourth panel on the last page, in the middle of the story.

1 page filler "Kindergarten for Cow Ponies"

Synopsis Facts about the training of horses to be cow ponies.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Text with two large illustrations.

1 page Juicy Fruit Gum advertisement "Dopey Dan and Safety Sam"

Characters Dopey Dan; Safety Sam
Synopsis Tips for riding a bicycle safely, told in rhyme.
Genre children
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum.