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Issue Details

Issue #96
Published January 1961
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in August 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Beware of Montana Joe!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Montana Joe
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek?
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #203 (February 1976)

13 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Beware of Montana Joe!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Montana Joe
Synopsis After Kid Colt stops a bandit from robbing a stagecoach he frames the Kid for another robbery in revenge and he must clear his name.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes This story is divided into two chapters: chapter one—"The Revenge of Montana Joe!" (7 pp), and chapter two—"The Kid Strikes Back!" (6 pp).
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #203 (February 1976)

2 page text story "Feud Trail"

Characters Bill Baker; Cade Baker; Dash Carr; Jim Carr; Judge Hadell; Clem Hatch
Synopsis The sons of two feuding ranches end the feud by flooding the disputed land.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Gunsmoke Western (Marvel, 1955 series) #36 (August 1956)

5 page story "Return of the Bad Man!"

Characters Blackie Brand
Synopsis A feared outlaw turns himself in to finally be at peace.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Tragedy on the Trail!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; George
Synopsis A bandit bullies his innocent sister into ambushing Kid Colt, but she takes pity on the kid and he gets the chance to face her brother again. He tries not to hurt him, but in their struggle the bandit falls from a cliff.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Marked "From the Legends of Kid Colt.
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #203 (February 1976)