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with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 19, 2009</font></div>
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333-_____</font></font></font></div>
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STATES</font></div>
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AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
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D.C. 20549</font></div>
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S-8</font></div>
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STATEMENT</font></div>
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SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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RESOURCES, INC.</font></div>
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name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div>
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      or organization)</font></div>
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Town and Country Blvd., Suite 500, Frisco, Texas 75034</font></div>
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of Principal Executive Offices)</font></div>
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RESOURCES, INC.</font></div>
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LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN</font></div>
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title of the plan)</font></div>
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Jay Allison</font></div>
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and Chief Executive Officer</font></div>
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Resources, Inc.</font></div>
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Town and Country Blvd., Suite 500</font></div>
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Texas 75034</font></div>
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address of agent for service)</font></div>
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668-8800</font></div>
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number, including area code, of agent for service)</font></div>
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Lord Bissell &amp; Liddell LLP</font></div>
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Ross Avenue, Suite 2200</font></div>
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Texas 75201</font></div>
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740-8000</font></div>
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by check number whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company.&#160;&#160;See the definition of "large accelerated filer,"
"accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act.</font></div>
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OF REGISTRATION FEE</font></div>
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      to</font></div>
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      price</font></div>
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      maximum</font></div>
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                  <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">registration
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      offering price per share, aggregate offering price and registration fee
      with respect to the shares of common stock of Comstock Resources, Inc.
      (the "Company"), par value $0.50 per share (the "Common Stock"), issuable
      pursuant to the Comstock Resources, Inc. 2009 Long-term Incentive Plan
      (the "Plan") described herein have been calculated in accordance with Rule
      457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, based on the
      average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on May 15, 2009 as
      reported in the consolidated reporting system of the New York Stock
      Exchange.&#160;&#160;In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the
      Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement also
      covers additional shares of Common Stock as may be offered or issued as a
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(Plan Information) and Item 2 (Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual
Information) of Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this registration statement
in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the "Securities Act"), and the introductory Note to Part I of Form
S-8.</font></div>
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following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission").&#160;&#160;All documents subsequently filed by the Company
pursuant to Sections&#160;13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered have been
sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference into this registration statement and to be a
part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.&#160;&#160;Any statement
contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
registration statement to the extent a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.&#160;&#160;Any such
statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement.</font></div>
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2008;</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Section
78.751 of the Nevada General Corporation Law permits a corporation to indemnify
any person who was, is or is threatened to be made a party in a completed,
pending or threatened proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (except an action by or in the right of the corporation), by
reason of being or having been an officer, director, employee or agent of the
corporation or serving in certain capacities at the request of the
corporation.&#160;&#160;Indemnification may include attorneys' fees, judgments,
fines and amounts paid in settlement.&#160;&#160;The person to be indemnified
must have acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any
criminal action, such person must have had no reasonable cause to believe his
conduct was unlawful.</font></div>
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respect to actions by or in the right of the corporation, indemnification may
not be made for any claim, issue or matter as to which such a person has been
finally adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be liable to the
corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the corporation, unless and
only to the extent that the court in which the action was brought or other court
of competent jurisdiction determines upon application that in view of all
circumstances the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such
expenses as the court deems proper.</font></div>
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indemnification is ordered by a court, the determination to pay indemnification
must be made by the stockholders, by a majority vote of a quorum of the Board of
Directors who were not parties to the action, suit or proceeding, or in certain
circumstances by independent legal counsel in a written
opinion.&#160;&#160;Section 78.751 of the General Corporation law of Nevada
permits the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws to provide for payment to an
indemnified person of the expenses of defending an action as incurred upon
receipt of an undertaking to repay the amount if it is ultimately determined by
a court of competent jurisdiction that the person is not entitled to
indemnification.</font></div>
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78.751 also provides that to the extent a director, officer, employee or agent
has been successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any such
action, he must be indemnified by the corporation against expenses, including
attorneys' fees, actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the
defense.</font></div>
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Company's Bylaws provides as follows with respect to indemnification of the
Company's directors, officers, employees and agents:</font></div>
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1.&#160;&#160;To the fullest extent allowed by Nevada law, any director of the
Company shall not be liable to the Company or its shareholders for monetary
damages for an act or omission in the director's capacity as a director, except
that this Article VI does not eliminate or limit the liability of a director
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agent, now or hereafter serving the Company, each former director, officer,
employee and agent, and each person who may now or hereafter serve or who may
have heretofore served at the Company's request as a director, officer, employee
or agent of another corporation or other business enterprise, and the respective
heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives of each of them
against all expenses actually and reasonably incurred by, or imposed upon, him
in connection with the defense of any claim, action, suit or proceeding, civil
or criminal, against him by reason of his being or having been such director,
officer, employee or agent, except in relation to such matters as to which he
shall be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction after exhaustion of all
appeals therefrom in such action, suit or proceeding to be liable for gross
negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of duty.&#160;&#160;For
purposes hereof, the term "expenses" shall include but not be limited to all
expenses, costs, attorneys' fees, judgments (including adjudications other than
on the merits), fines, penalties, arbitration awards, costs of arbitration and
sums paid out and liabilities actually and reasonably incurred or imposed in
connection with any suit, claim, action or proceeding, and any settlement or
compromise thereof approved by the Board of Directors as being in the best
interests of the Company.&#160;&#160;However, in any case in which there is no
disinterested majority of the Board of Directors available, the indemnification
shall be made: (1) only if the Company shall be advised in writing by counsel
that in the opinion of counsel (a) such officer, director, employee or agent was
not adjudged or found liable for gross negligence or willful misconduct in the
performance of duty as such director, officer, employee or agent or the
indemnification provided is only in connection with such matters as to which the
person to be indemnified was not so liable, and in the case of settlement or
compromise, the same is in the best interests of the Company; and (b)
indemnification under the circumstances is lawful and falls within the
provisions of these Bylaws; and (2) only in such amount as counsel shall advise
the Company in writing is, in his opinion, proper.&#160;&#160;In making or
refusing to make any payment under this or any other provision of these Bylaws,
the Company, its directors, officers, employees and agents shall be fully
protected if they rely upon the written opinion of counsel selected by, or in
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proceeding may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of
such action, suit or proceeding as authorized by the Board of Directors upon
receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director, officer, employee or
agent to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be determined that he is
entitled to be indemnified by the Company as authorized in these
Bylaws.</font></div>
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4.&#160;&#160;The Company may indemnify each person, though he is not or was not
a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, who served at the request
of the Company on a committee created by the Board of Directors to consider and
report to it in respect of any matter.&#160;&#160;Any such indemnification may
be made under the provisions hereof and shall be subject to the limitations
hereof, except that (as indicated) any such committee member need not be nor
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proceedings (including appeals) commenced after the adoption hereof, whether
arising from acts or omissions to act occurring before or after the adoption
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exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under
any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or
otherwise, or by law or statute, both as to action in his official capacity and
as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue
as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and
shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a
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person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or
is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee
or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other
enterprise, and persons described in Section 4 of this Article above, against
any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity or
arising out of his status, as such, whether or not the Company would have the
power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of these
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of this registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
hereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
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previously disclosed in this registration statement or any material change to
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paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to
be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Company
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in this registration statement.</font></div>
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for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">bona fide</font> offering
thereof.</font></div>
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remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.</font></div>
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for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
of the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">bona
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permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant
to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in
the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event
that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the Company in the successful defense of any action, suit
or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the
opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.</font></div>
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Securities Act, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Frisco, State of Texas, on May 19,
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below hereby authorizes M. Jay Allison and Roland O. Burns, and each of them,
with full power to act without the other, to sign and file one or more
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement,
which amendments may make such changes in this registration statement as either
of them deems appropriate, and each such person hereby appoints M. Jay Allison
and Roland O. Burns, and each of them, as attorney-in-fact to execute in the
name and on behalf of the Company and any such person, individually and in each
capacity stated below, any such amendments to this registration
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              </td>
              <td>
                <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Opinion
      of Locke Lord Bissell &amp; Liddell
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              </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
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forms8may192009.htm
As filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 19, 2009
Registration No.
333-_____
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
___________________
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
___________________
COMSTOCK
RESOURCES, INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada
04-1667468
(State
      or other jurisdiction of
(IRS
      Employer
incorporation
      or organization)
Identification
      No.)
5300
Town and Country Blvd., Suite 500, Frisco, Texas 75034
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
COMSTOCK
RESOURCES, INC.
2009
LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full
title of the plan)
M.
Jay Allison
President
and Chief Executive Officer
Comstock
Resources, Inc.
5300
Town and Country Blvd., Suite 500
Frisco,
Texas 75034
(Name and
address of agent for service)
(972)
668-8800
(Telephone
number, including area code, of agent for service)
___________________
With
copies to:
Jack
E. Jacobsen
Locke
Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
2200
Ross Avenue, Suite 2200
Dallas,
Texas 75201
(214)
740-8000
___________________
Indicate
by check number whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company.  See the definition of "large accelerated filer,"
"accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act.
(Check
one):
Large accelerated
      filer
þ
Accelerated filer
o
Non-accelerated
      filer
o
Smaller reporting
      company
o
(Do not check if a
      smaller reporting company)
CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of
securities
to
      be registered
Amount
      to
be
      registered
(1)
Proposed
maximum
offering
      price
per
      share
(1)
Proposed
      maximum
aggregate
offering
      price
(1)
Amount
      of
registration
      fee
(1)
Common
      Stock,
$0.50
      par value per share
(1)
4,000,000
      shares
$36.32
$145,280,000.00
$8,106.62
(1)
The
      offering price per share, aggregate offering price and registration fee
      with respect to the shares of common stock of Comstock Resources, Inc.
      (the "Company"), par value $0.50 per share (the "Common Stock"), issuable
      pursuant to the Comstock Resources, Inc. 2009 Long-term Incentive Plan
      (the "Plan") described herein have been calculated in accordance with Rule
      457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, based on the
      average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on May 15, 2009 as
      reported in the consolidated reporting system of the New York Stock
      Exchange.  In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the
      Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement also
      covers additional shares of Common Stock as may be offered or issued as a
      result of stock splits, stock dividends, or similar
      transactions.
PART
I
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The information specified by Item 1
(Plan Information) and Item 2 (Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual
Information) of Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this registration statement
in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the "Securities Act"), and the introductory Note to Part I of Form
S-8.
PART
II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
Comstock Resources, Inc. (the
"Company") hereby incorporates by reference into this registration statement the
following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission").  All documents subsequently filed by the Company
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered have been
sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference into this registration statement and to be a
part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.  Any statement
contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
registration statement to the extent a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any such
statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement.
(a)
The
      Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission for the
      fiscal year ended December 31,
2008;
(b)
All
      other reports filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a) or
      15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
      Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K referred to in (a) above;
      and
(c)
The
      description of the Company's common stock, $0.50 par value per share,
contained
      in the Company's registration statement on Form 8-A (Registration
      Statement No. 001-03262) filed with the Commission on December 6, 1996,
      pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, including any amendment or
      report filed for the purpose of updating such
      description.
Item
4.  Description of Securities.
Not Applicable.
Item
5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not Applicable.
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Item
6.  Indemnification of Officers and Directors.
Section
78.751 of the Nevada General Corporation Law permits a corporation to indemnify
any person who was, is or is threatened to be made a party in a completed,
pending or threatened proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (except an action by or in the right of the corporation), by
reason of being or having been an officer, director, employee or agent of the
corporation or serving in certain capacities at the request of the
corporation.  Indemnification may include attorneys' fees, judgments,
fines and amounts paid in settlement.  The person to be indemnified
must have acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or
not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any
criminal action, such person must have had no reasonable cause to believe his
conduct was unlawful.
With
respect to actions by or in the right of the corporation, indemnification may
not be made for any claim, issue or matter as to which such a person has been
finally adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be liable to the
corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the corporation, unless and
only to the extent that the court in which the action was brought or other court
of competent jurisdiction determines upon application that in view of all
circumstances the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such
expenses as the court deems proper.
Unless
indemnification is ordered by a court, the determination to pay indemnification
must be made by the stockholders, by a majority vote of a quorum of the Board of
Directors who were not parties to the action, suit or proceeding, or in certain
circumstances by independent legal counsel in a written
opinion.  Section 78.751 of the General Corporation law of Nevada
permits the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws to provide for payment to an
indemnified person of the expenses of defending an action as incurred upon
receipt of an undertaking to repay the amount if it is ultimately determined by
a court of competent jurisdiction that the person is not entitled to
indemnification.
Section
78.751 also provides that to the extent a director, officer, employee or agent
has been successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any such
action, he must be indemnified by the corporation against expenses, including
attorneys' fees, actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the
defense.
Article
VI, "Indemnification of Directors, Officers, Employees and Agents," of the
Company's Bylaws provides as follows with respect to indemnification of the
Company's directors, officers, employees and agents:
Section
1.  To the fullest extent allowed by Nevada law, any director of the
Company shall not be liable to the Company or its shareholders for monetary
damages for an act or omission in the director's capacity as a director, except
that this Article VI does not eliminate or limit the liability of a director
for:
(a)
an
      act or omission which involves intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing
      violation of law; or
(b)
the
      payment of dividends in violation of N.R.S.
  78.300.
Section
2.  The Company shall indemnify each director, officer, employee and
agent, now or hereafter serving the Company, each former director, officer,
employee and agent, and each person who may now or hereafter serve or who may
have heretofore served at the Company's request as a director, officer, employee
or agent of another corporation or other business enterprise, and the respective
heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives of each of them
against all expenses actually and reasonably incurred by, or imposed upon, him
in connection with the defense of any claim, action, suit or proceeding, civil
or criminal, against him by reason of his being or having been such director,
officer, employee or agent, except in relation to such matters as to which he
shall be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction after exhaustion of all
appeals therefrom in such action, suit or proceeding to be liable for gross
negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of duty.  For
purposes hereof, the term "expenses" shall include but not be limited to all
expenses, costs, attorneys' fees, judgments (including adjudications other than
on the merits), fines, penalties, arbitration awards, costs of arbitration and
sums paid out and liabilities actually and reasonably incurred or imposed in
connection with any suit, claim, action or proceeding, and any settlement or
compromise thereof approved by the Board of Directors as being in the best
interests of the Company.  However, in any case in which there is no
disinterested majority of the Board of Directors available, the indemnification
shall be made: (1) only if the Company shall be advised in writing by counsel
that in the opinion of counsel (a) such officer, director, employee or agent was
not adjudged or found liable for gross negligence or willful misconduct in the
performance of duty as such director, officer, employee or agent or the
indemnification provided is only in connection with such matters as to which the
person to be indemnified was not so liable, and in the case of settlement or
compromise, the same is in the best interests of the Company; and (b)
indemnification under the circumstances is lawful and falls within the
provisions of these Bylaws; and (2) only in such amount as counsel shall advise
the Company in writing is, in his opinion, proper.  In making or
refusing to make any payment under this or any other provision of these Bylaws,
the Company, its directors, officers, employees and agents shall be fully
protected if they rely upon the written opinion of counsel selected by, or in
the manner designated by, the Board of Directors.
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Section
3.  Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or
proceeding may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of
such action, suit or proceeding as authorized by the Board of Directors upon
receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director, officer, employee or
agent to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be determined that he is
entitled to be indemnified by the Company as authorized in these
Bylaws.
Section
4.  The Company may indemnify each person, though he is not or was not
a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, who served at the request
of the Company on a committee created by the Board of Directors to consider and
report to it in respect of any matter.  Any such indemnification may
be made under the provisions hereof and shall be subject to the limitations
hereof, except that (as indicated) any such committee member need not be nor
have been a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company.
Section
5.  The provisions hereof shall be applicable to actions, suits or
proceedings (including appeals) commenced after the adoption hereof, whether
arising from acts or omissions to act occurring before or after the adoption
hereof.
Section
6.  The indemnification provisions herein provided shall not be deemed
exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under
any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or
otherwise, or by law or statute, both as to action in his official capacity and
as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue
as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and
shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a
person.
Section
7.  The Company may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any
person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or
is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee
or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other
enterprise, and persons described in Section 4 of this Article above, against
any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity or
arising out of his status, as such, whether or not the Company would have the
power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of these
Bylaws.
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Item
7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not Applicable.
Item
8.  Exhibits.
The following are filed as exhibits to
this registration statement:
Exhibit
No.
Description
4
Specimen
      Common Stock Certificate of the Company (incorporated by reference to
      Exhibit 4 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3
      (Registration No. 333-112100) filed on January 22,
  2004).
5*
Opinion
      of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
LLP.
15*
Letter
      of Ernst & Young LLP.
23.1*
Consent
      of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP (See Exhibit
  5).
23.2*
Consent
      of Ernst & Young LLP.
24*
Power
      of Attorney (included on the signature page of this registration
      statement).
99*
Comstock
      Resources, Inc. 2009 Long-term Incentive
Plan.
_____________
* Filed
herewith
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Item
9.  Undertakings.
The Company hereby
undertakes:
(1)           To
file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i)          
 To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act;
(ii)           To
reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
of this registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
hereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
in the information set forth in this registration statement.
(iii)           To
include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in this registration statement or any material change to
such information in this registration statement;
provided
,
however
, that
paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to
be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Company
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in this registration statement.
(2)           That,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering
thereof.
(3)           To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.
(4)           That,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing
of the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial
bona
fide
offering thereof.
(5)           Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant
to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in
the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event
that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the Company in the successful defense of any action, suit
or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the
opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
(Signature
Page Follows)
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Frisco, State of Texas, on May 19,
2009.
COMSTOCK RESOURCES, INC.
By:
/s/ ROLAND O.
BURNS
Senior Vice President, Chief
Financial
Officer, Secretary, Treasurer and
Director
(Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer)
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POWER
OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears
below hereby authorizes M. Jay Allison and Roland O. Burns, and each of them,
with full power to act without the other, to sign and file one or more
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement,
which amendments may make such changes in this registration statement as either
of them deems appropriate, and each such person hereby appoints M. Jay Allison
and Roland O. Burns, and each of them, as attorney-in-fact to execute in the
name and on behalf of the Company and any such person, individually and in each
capacity stated below, any such amendments to this registration
statement.
Pursuant to the requirements of
      the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the
      following persons in the capacities and on the date
    indicated.
/s/ M. JAY ALLISON
M.
      Jay Allison
President,
      Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman
      of the Board of Directors
(Principal
      Executive Officer)
May
      19, 2009
/s/
      ROLAND O. BURN
S
Roland
      O. Burns
Senior
      Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer,
      Secretary, Treasurer and Director
(Principal
      Financial and Accounting Officer)
May
      19, 2009
/s/ DAVID K. LOCKETT
David
      K. Lockett
Director
May
      19, 2009
/s/ CECIL E. MARTIN, JR.
Cecil
      E. Martin, Jr.
Director
May
      19, 2009
/s/ DAVID W. SLEDGE
David
      W. Sledge
Director
May
      19, 2009
/s/ NANCY E. UNDERWOOD
Nancy
      E. Underwood
Director
May
      19,
2009
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Exhibit
Index
Exhibit
No.
Description
4
Specimen
      Common Stock Certificate of the Company (incorporated by reference to
      Exhibit 4 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3
      (Registration No. 333-112100) filed on January 22,
  2004)
5*
Opinion
      of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
LLP
15*
Letter
      of Ernst & Young LLP
23.1*
Consent
      of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP (See Exhibit
  5)
23.2*
Consent
      of Ernst & Young LLP
24*
Power
      of Attorney (included on the signature page of the Registration
      Statement)
99*
Comstock
      Resources, Inc. 2009 Long-term Incentive
Plan
_____________
*Filed
herewith
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