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Issue Details

Issue #83
Published March 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in November 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 Capture of Kid Colt!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Jethro Scrubb; Blade Simms
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chris Rule
Notes Inker credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (10 January 2005). Original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

7 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Capture of Kid Colt!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Sheriff Cal Nesbitt; Jethro Scrubb; Blade Simms
Synopsis Kid Colt gives himself up to help a good sheriff get re-elected.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Inker credit changed from Jack Keller based on information from Tom Lammer. [MN 10/2007]

2 page text story "Ranch Hand's Luck"

Characters Doc Springer; Tim Meltzer; Bart Brisbane; Luke Hasso
Synopsis A doctor's philosophy of looking for the potential in everyone is born out when his inexperienced ranch hand turns out to be a gifted rider.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Ringo Kid Western (Marvel, 1954 series) #14 (October 1956)

6 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Midnight Hawkins, Gunman!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Midnight Hawkins; Old Man Wilson
Synopsis Kid Colt stops a gang from robbing an old man.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Inker credit changed from Jack Keller based on information from Tom Lammer. [MN 10/2007]

5 page story "No Place To Hide!"

Characters Jarbo; Webb; Pete Hanson
Synopsis Three crooks try to frame an innocent man for a murder they committed, but their scheme is exposed when the victim turns out to have survived.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Stagecoach To San Antoine!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel
Synopsis Kid Colt catches a ride on a stagecoach, and the passengers learn a lesson about rushing to judgement when he stops a respectable-looking passenger from robbing them.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Chris Rule
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Inker credit changed from Jack Keller based on information from Tom Lammer. [MN 10/2007]