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Issue Details

Issue #77
Published March 1958
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in October 1957. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "I'll Fight Kid Colt on Sight!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Jeb Wilkins
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Freeze, all you hombres! First..."

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Looters [Moose Crabb, Spade Scragg]; Sheriff Nixon
Synopsis Kid Colt falls afoul of two bandits and a sheriff with a grudge.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Notes Jack Keller inker credit changed to Chris Rule based on information from Tom Lammers [MN 10/2007].
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #144 (March 1970)

2 page text story "The Great Beast"

Characters Jody Taylor; Slim Taylor; Wolf
Synopsis A boy is disappointed not to be brought on a cougar hunt by his father, but he proves himself when the cougar comes to him.
Genre western
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Cowboy Action (Marvel, 1955 series) #10 (January 1956) [originally titled "Fang and Claw"]

4 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "I don't like the way that hombre's lookin' at me! He's..."

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Blackjack Weems
Synopsis Kid Colt humiliates a local bully.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Notes Jack Keller inker credit changed to Chris Rule based on information from Tom Lammers [MN 10/2007].
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #144 (March 1970); in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #210 (September 1976)

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Trail of the Outlaw!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel
Synopsis Kid Colt convinces a youth enamored of the outlaw life to stick to the straight and narrow.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Notes Jack Keller inker credit changed to Chris Rule based on information from Tom Lammers [MN 10/2007].
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #144 (March 1970)

4 page story "Lawman"

Characters Walt Carey; Big Bob Brennan
Synopsis An unarmed lawyer faces down a local gunslinger with only courage and his boxing skills.
Genre western
Pencils Doug Wildey
Inks Doug Wildey
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #144 (March 1970)

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "I'll Fight Kid Colt on Sight!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Jeb Wilkins; Bull Chisholm
Synopsis A young gunslinger vows to beat Kid Colt to make his reputation, but the Kid outdraws him with ease.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Notes Jack Keller inker credit changed to Chris Rule based on information from Tom Lammers [MN 10/2007].
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #144 (March 1970)