The colorful masked hero who looks like a Dia De Los Muertos Sugar Skull...
...returns in another never-reprinted adventure...this time in a ghost town!
The Masked Marvel appeared in the entire 16-issue run of GunSmoke, but never had the cover, except in the background of one cover as a "Wanted" poster on a wall!
This story is from Youthful's GunSmoke #10 (1950), and, like all the other Masked Marvel tales, we have no idea who the writer, artist, or writer-artist is!
Trivia: This Masked Marvel was the fourth hero to have the name, but only the third comic book character!
The first was a Golden Age masked mystery-man in Centaur's Keen Detective Funnies as well as his own short-lived title.
The second was another mystery-man who battled Prize Comics' Frankenstein Monster in several stories before disappearing.
The third was a Republic Pictures 1943 movie serial hero with the gimmick that the audience didn't know which of several good-guy detectives he was...though the audience knew from the beginning who the villain was.
(Usually, a serial audience had to figure out which of several potentially-evil suspects was the mystery villain!)
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