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Issue Details

Issue #102
Published January 1962
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in September 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Ghost of Silver City!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Ghost of Silver City [Johnny Ringo]
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Sol Brodsky
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (1 February 2005); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

7 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Ghost of Silver City!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Johnny Ringo; Ben Thompson
Synopsis Johnny Ringo fakes his own murder by Kid Colt to pretend to be a ghost.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller

2 page text story "Home Trail"

Characters Charlie; Jeff
Synopsis Two unknown wanderers are turned away from four towns, but in the one where they are accepted they found a medicine factory.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Gunsmoke Western (Marvel, 1955 series) #37 (October 1956)

8 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Wall of Doom!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Maj. Horn; Capt. Grant
Synopsis The Kid helps save a fort from an unstoppable Sioux battering ram.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Notes The last page of this story includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).

5 page story "Gun-Duel In Dorado"

Characters Tate Klagg; Sam North; Sue
Synopsis Bad luck ends the career of a bullying gunslinger.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw #126 (January 1966)

5 page When Kid Colt Was a Teen-Ager! story "The Eyes of Orville Jones!"

Characters Blaine Colt; Orville Jones
Synopsis Blaine beats a hypnotist gunslinger by not looking him in the eyes.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Notes This story is not consistent with Kid Colt's origin, in which no one knows he's such a fast draw.
Reprinted in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #3 (February 1969); Gunslingers (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (February 2000)