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Issue Details

Issue #104
Published May 1962
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in February 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Trial of Kid Colt!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; John Henderson
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #135 (July 1967)

7 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Trial of Kid Colt"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; John Henderson
Synopsis The Kid is framed for a robbery by a dishonest bank president.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller

1 page text story "The Search"

Characters Jim Pierson; Mr. Atkins
Synopsis A man who wants a horse more than anything else captures a fine black stallion.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. The first page is printed between the pages of "The Trial of Kid Colt", while the second page is printed between "War In Chicamaw County!" and "The Legend That Is Kid Colt!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
Reprinted from Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 1955 series) #3 (July 1955)

6 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Guns of Gringo Gillis"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Gringo Gillis
Synopsis Kid Colt saves a town that was too frightened to even offer him food or shelter.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller

5 page story "War In Chicamaw County!"

Characters Wayne Wilson; Don Wilson; Dan Durant; Sally Durant
Synopsis A greedy rancher's determination to drive out a rival farmer loses him his son and everything else.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #135 (July 1967)

Half page statement of ownership "Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)"

Synopsis Average circulation per issue October 1960–September 1961 (issues #97–102): 152,877. This shares the last page of "The Search".
Letters typeset

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Legend That Is Kid Colt!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel
Synopsis An eastern reporter wants to write a story on Kid Colt, but finds his life too boring to be interesting.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Notes Kid Colt claims in this story that Jesse James has "been retired on his farm for the last three years".