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Issue Details

Issue #85
Published July 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1959. 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 Waco Gang Strikes!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Waco Gang [Will Waco; Crag Waco; Red Waco]
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Chris Rule
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (10 January 2005). The original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

8 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Waco Gang Strikes!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Waco Gang [Will Waco; Crag Waco; Red Waco]; Ox Farrell
Synopsis The Waco Gang frames Kid Colt for setting fire to the new telegraph line.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Jack Keller (signed)
Inks Chris Rule
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Inker credit changed from Jack Keller based on information from Tom Lammer. [MN 10/2007]
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #153 (May 1971)

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Siege At the Circle-X"

Characters Kid Colt Outlaw; Steel; Hunk Porter (villain); Miss Stevens
Synopsis Kid Colt helps Miss Stevens and her sick grandfather hold thier homestead from Hunk Porter and his men who want to run them off.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller (signed)
Inks Chris Rule
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Inker credit changed from Jack Keller based on information from Tom Lammer. [MN 10/2007]
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #153 (May 1971)

2 page text story "Duty Trail"

Characters Deputy Sheriff Jim Tally; Bart Rutgers; Joe Bradley; Sheriff Len Grady; Havemayer; Phil Kane
Synopsis A rookie lawman brings in an obstinate cattle baron using words alone.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #73 (June 1957) [originally titled "The Law"]; in Gunsmoke Western (Marvel, 1955 series) #62 (Jan 1961)

5 page The Kid From Texas story "Redmen On the Rampage!"

Characters Kid from Texas [Dan Hawk]; Cactus
Synopsis The Kid escorts a doctor to help the some of a hostile tribe's chief, winning their trust.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes This is the last published Kid from Texas story. The story before this one was in Wyatt Earp (Marvel, 1955 series) #23 (June 1959).
Reprinted in Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 1960 series) #89 (July 1971)

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Deputy Says: Draw!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Seth; Hank Yates
Synopsis Kid Colt tries to convince Hank Yates he doesn't want to get into a gunfight but must eventually draw on Yates.
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]
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #153 (May 1971)