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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 nine
months ended September 30, 1998 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to
such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<INCOME-PRETAX>                                                     (6,341)
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<DISCONTINUED>                                                           0
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