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Issue Details

Issue #81
Published November 1958
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in June 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 Brute of Copper County!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Blackie Cragg; Ben Sawyer
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely

6 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Jail-Break!, or, Yore Under Arrest!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Squint Morgan; Bull Nester
Synopsis The Kid is recognized by a sheriff and lets himself be arrested. When the other prisoners break out he recaptures them and saves the sheriff's life while escaping.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #154 (July 1971)

8 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Brute of Copper County!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Big Ben Sawyer; Blackie Cragg; Luke
Synopsis The Kid's horse is stolen by a gunman backed up by a mighty blacksmith made simple-minded by a blow to the head. When the blacksmith regains his wits he helps the Kid get his horse back.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #217 (April 1977)

4 page story "The Man Who Couldn't Quit!"

Characters Jim Bender; Mary Bender; Sheriff Watkins
Synopsis A fast draw just wants to settle down, but a sense of duty forces him to agree to become sheriff.
Genre western
Pencils George Woodbridge
Inks George Woodbridge
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #151 (December 1970); in Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 1960 series) #129 (May 1977)

2 page text story "Sheep Run"

Characters Buz Taton; Silas Growby; Biff Halliday; Doc Latum
Synopsis A cattle-rancher feuds with a sheepherder but softens after meeting the man's son.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Two Gun Kid (Marvel, 1953 series) #27 (November 1955)

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Coward!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Krull; Lightnin' Jim Larrime
Synopsis Kid Colt reveals the local fast-drawer's cowardice.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #151 (December 1970)