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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 six
months ended June 30, 2000 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
financial statements.

</LEGEND>

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