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Issue Details

Issue #89
Published March 1960
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in October 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 - "Guns Roar In Rio Mesa!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Kid Colt, Trapped!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel
Synopsis Kid Colt escapes three thugs trying to collect the reward for his capture.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #211 (October 1976)

2 page text story "Mesa By Moonlight"

Characters Jim Hayden; Kip; Hank Beakett; Mr. Beakett; Mrs. Hayden; Miguel Valdez
Synopsis Two boys think a mysterious figure is a cattle rustler, but he's really a painter.
Genre western
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. Tom Lammers disagrees with the Jack Keller credit.
Reprinted from Western Tales of Black Rider (Marvel, 1955 series) #28 (May 1955)

7 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Guns Roar In Rio Mesa!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Ben Barrow; Dave Harper
Synopsis Kid Colt deals with a gang terrorizing an honest newspaper publisher in a frontier town.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #211 (October 1976)

1 page Kid Colt, Outlaw Pin-up Page! illustration

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]
Genre western
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller

4 page story "Rip-Snorter!"

Characters Lew Cory; Bull Gila
Synopsis A big blustery man and his small partner work undercover for the Texas Rangers.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Al Williamson
Inks Al Williamson

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "When the Kid Lost a Gunfight!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Sheriff Jed Lawson; Blaney
Synopsis Kid Colt purposely looses a gunfight to help a sheriff regain his nerve.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #211 (October 1976)