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<LEGEND>
               This schedule  contains summary financial data extracted from the
               Consolidated Financial Statements of Comstock Resources, Inc. and
               Subsidiaries  for the three  months  ended  March 31, 1998 and is
               qualified  in  its  entirety  by  reference  to  such   financial
               statements.
</LEGEND>
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