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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published September 1958
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1958. 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 - "The Return of Sam Hawk Manhunter!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Marshal Sam Hawk
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters Dick Ayers

8 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Return of Sam Hawk, Man-hunter!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Marshal Sam Hawk; Craw Bates; Chief Thunder Cloud
Synopsis The Kid has the opportunity to escape when Sam Hawk is captured by the Comanches but instead he rescues the marshal.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Notes Sam Hawk last appeared in issue #78 (May 1958) and next appears in issue #84 (May 1959). This story is redrawn by Jack Keller in as Part 2 of "The Saga of Sam Hawk, Manhunter!" titled "Showdown with Sam Hawk!" (7 pp) in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #111 (July 1963). Inker credit changed from Jack Keller based on information from Tom Lammer. [MN 10/2007]
Reprinted in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #11 (November 1970)

6 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Trail to Tombstone!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Hunk Yancy; Red Yancy; Smiley Yancy
Synopsis Kid Colt is waylaid by highwaymen, but he escapes and stops them from robbing a stagecoach.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Notes Inker credit changed from Jack Keller based on information from Tom Lammer. [MN 10/2007]
Reprinted in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #11 (November 1970)

4 page story "The Badlands!"

Characters Sheriff Frank Carter; Brad Gower
Synopsis An aging sheriff rides into the wilderness to capture one outlaw, and captures two dozen more.
Genre western
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Dick Ayers
Notes This story is narrated as a ballad.
Reprinted in Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 1960 series) #82 (December 1970)

2 page text story "The Cop Went West!"

Characters Scott McNeill; Mayor William Clemmer; Pete Dodds; Joe Ginty; Ed Hopper; Hannah Meekins; Alderman Jerome K. Oswald
Synopsis A corrupt politician arranges for an honest cop to be sent to a violent western town, but he cleans it up and returns east to do the same there.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #25 (March 1953)

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Fastest Gun in the West!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Will Brown
Synopsis A fast draw wants to outdraw the Kid, but though he his fast enough, he can't shoot a man just to win a reputation.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Notes Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Inker credit changed from Jack Keller based on information by Tom Lammers. [MN 10/2007]
Reprinted in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #11 (November 1970)