Issue Details

Issue	#40
Published	June 1964
Cover Price	0.12 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Stan Lee
Notes	Cover pencil & ink credit from Nick Caputo (April 5, 2004).

Cover Details - "The Rawhide Kid, Face-to-Face With the Two-Gun Kid!!"

Genre	Western
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Sol Brodsky
Notes	Cover pencil & ink credit from Nick Caputo (April 5, 2004).

18 page Rawhide Kid story "The Rawhide Kid Meets The Two-Gun Kid"

Characters	Rawhide Kid; Two-Gun Kid
Genre	Western
Script	Stan Lee
Pencils	Dick Ayers
Inks	Dick Ayers
Letters	Artie Simek
Notes	Two-Gun Kid crossover; note on splash reads in part, "By special arrangement with the publishers of Two-Gun Kid magazine ..." Fantasy element: outlaw wears mechanical grizzly-bear suit.
Reprinted	in Rawhide Kid, The (Marvel, 1960 series) #121 (July 1974)

1 page text story "Murder on the Mesa"

Letters	typeset
Notes	text piece, continued next issue
Reprinted	from Girl Comics (Marvel, 1949 series) #11 (November 1951) [page 1]

Half page Avengers promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis	House ad for Avengers #5.
Notes	Sequence information from Tom Lammers, May 2009.

Half page Statement of Ownership credits "Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation"

Letters	typeset
Notes	For 1 Oct 1963. Martin Goodman, publisher; Stan Lee, Editor. Average number of copies sold or distributed issues #32-37: 194,390 (192,940 for issue #37). Average print run issues #32-37: 331,294 (322,435 for issue #37). Sequence information from Tom Lammers, May 2009.

5 page story "The Fastest Draw!"

Genre	western
Script	Stan Lee (Plot); Larry Lieber (Script)
Pencils	Larry Lieber
Inks	Larry Lieber
Letters	Artie Simek
Reprinted	in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #25 (July 1973); in Wyatt Earp (Marvel, 1972 series) #33