Four Color #722
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Silent Men," a 1956 Four Color comic from Dell, the quiet town of Shallow Creek faces a crisis when its school burns down. Miser Abney Streetch offers to cover the cost from his bank account in Great Falls, sending Johnny along as a guard—only for the stage to be robbed on the return trip. As the townspeople rally to rebuild their school, Streetch volunteers to count the donations, but his true intentions unravel in a tense confrontation where Johnny must stop him from stealing the town’s hard-earned money. Nat Edson handles both pencils and inks, bringing this gripping western mystery to life.
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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.
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