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Issue Details

Issue	#731
Published	October 1956
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia title is "Max Brand's SILVERTIP AND THE FIGHTING FOUR, No. 731." Code number is SILVERTIP O.S. #731-5610. Copyright 1956 by Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. Sixth of nine Silvertip Four Colors.

Cover Details - "Silvertip and the Fighting Four"

Characters	Silvertip; Parade (horse); Frosty (wolf)
Genre	western
Pencils	Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks	Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors	Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes	Art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4 (August 2002).

1 page Max Brand's Silvertip foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Cast of Characters"

Characters	Silvertip; Oliver Wayland; Jimmy Lovell (villain); Bray (villain)
Synopsis	Introduction of main characters and preview of the story.
Genre	western
Pencils	Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks	Everett Raymond Kinstler
Letters	typeset
Notes	Inside front cover; black and white. Four illustrations with brief typeset text.

32 page Max Brand's Silvertip story "Max Brand's Silvertip and the Fighting Four"

Characters	Silvertip; Oliver Wayland; Jimmy Lovell (villain); Bray (villain); Parade (horse; Frosty (wolf)
Synopsis	Four outlaws hold up Elkdale's bank and take a half-million dollars. Three are captured but a fourth escapes with the money. Oliver Wayland, the bank teller who lost his courage, tries to find it by tracking down Jimmy Lovell,the escaped outlaw who failed to keep a bargain. Bray, the gang's chief, leads a jailbreak to get revenge, but runs afoul of Silvertip, who finds he's been tricked into protecting Lovell.
Genre	western
Pencils	Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks	Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes	Story concludes on the inside back cover in black and white. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Adapted from the 1933 novel "The Fighting Four" by Max Brand.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Caught!...In the crackling crossfire..."

Letters	typeset
Notes	Promo for "Luke Short's Bounty Guns" (Four Color #739). No cover reproduction. Promo comes at the bottom of the last interior page, in the middle of the story.

1 page Trix; General Mills advertisement "The Happy Cereal"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Back cover. Illustrated ad for Trix breakfast cereal.