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Issue Details

Issue #107
Published November 1962
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in August 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Giant Monster of Midnight Valley!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; "Monster of Midnight Valley"
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #180 (March 1974)

10 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Giant Monster of Midnight Valley!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel (Kid Colt's horse); "Monster of Midnight Valley!"; Stan Lee (cameo)
Synopsis Kid Colt helps a stranded alien creature who's ship has crashed on Earth.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #180 (March 1974); in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #3 (February 1969)

2 page text story "Ranch Hand's Luck"

Characters Doc Springer; Tim Meltzer; Bart Brisbane; Luke Hasso
Synopsis A doctor's philosophy of looking for the potential in everyone is born out when his inexperienced ranch hand turns out to be a gifted rider.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Ringo Kid Western (Marvel, 1954 series) #14 (October 1956)

3 page When the Kid Was a Teen-Ager! story "The Boy Who Was Afraid!"

Characters Blaine Colt; Wild Joe Hogan
Synopsis Blaine doesn't want to fight a braggart, but has to in order to protect others from him.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Notes This story is inconsistent with Kid Colt's origin, in with his skill with a gun is a secret.

5 page story "Thundering Hoofs!"

Characters Utah Smith; Skull Durstine
Synopsis Utah Smith faces wolves, Indians and robbers while delivering mail for the Pony Express.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes Shouldn't that be "hooves"?
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #180 (March 1974)

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Doom Around the Bend!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel (Kid Colt's horse)
Synopsis Kid Colt tries to warn a train about a trestle that the Apache have weakened.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Jack Keller (signed)
Inks Jack Keller (signed)
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #180 (March 1974)