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Issue Details

Issue #88
Published January 1960
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in September 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 Outlaw and the Lady!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Nancy Blade
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Klein
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (22 December 2006). Original indexer credit Dick Ayers.

6 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Man-Hunter!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Wolf Short
Synopsis The Kid evades a bounty hunter with the help of a sympathetic sheriff.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #209 (August 1976); in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #20 (October 1972)

7 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Outlaw and the Lady!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Nancy Blade; Sheriff Blade; Running Bear
Synopsis Kid Colt saves a girl he fell in love with from the Apaches, but to dissuade her from following him he keeps her from knowing what he did and pretends not to love her.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek

2 page text story "Windy's Day"

Characters Brad Williams; Tex Brady; Windy
Synopsis An old ranch hand past his prime saves the ranch by selling his tale tales to a big publisher.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Western Kid (Marvel, 1954 series) #7 (December 1955)

4 page story "Escape!"

Characters Hunk Grogan; Clem Mace
Synopsis Two robbers fall out over bonds that turn out to be worthless.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Al Williamson
Inks Al Williamson
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #170 (May 1973)

6 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Duel In the Desert!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Mike Brown; Shotgun Scrugg
Synopsis Kid Colt catches two bandits by making an impossible trek through the desert.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #12 (November 1972)