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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published August 1960
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Beware! The Rawhide Kid!!"

Characters Rawhide Kid
Genre Western
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in MARVEL MILESTONES: RAWHIDE KID & TWO-GUN KID (Marvel, 2006 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

7 page Rawhide Kid story "Beware! The Rawhide Kid"

Characters The Rawhide Kid (Intro; Origin) [Johnny Clay, aka Johnny Bart]; Ben Bart (Intro; Rawhide Kid's uncle; Death); Hawk Brown (Intro; Villain); Spade (Intro; Villain)
Synopsis When Johnny Bart's uncle Ben Bart is gunned down by criminals, Johnny becomes the Rawhide Kid to stop them.
Genre Western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in Rawhide Kid, The (Marvel, 1960 series) #86 (April 1971); in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #46; in MARVEL MILESTONES: RAWHIDE KID & TWO-GUN KID (Marvel, 2006 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

2 page text story "Dynamite Trail"

Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely [as M.]
Inks Joe Maneely [as M.]
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration. Sequence added per Tom Lammers, January 2009.
Reprinted from Western Kid (Marvel, 1954 series) #4 (June 1955)

6 page Rawhide Kid story "Stagecoach to Shotgun Gap!"

Characters Rawhide Kid [Johnny Bart]
Synopsis The Rawhide Kid prevents a stagecoach robbery.
Genre Western
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in RAWHIDE KID, The (Marvel, 1960 series) #86 (April 1971); in RAWHIDE KID (Marvel, 1960 series) #137 (January 1977); in MARVEL WESTERNS: KID COLT AND THE ARIZONA GIRL (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (September 2006); in MARVEL MILESTONES: RAWHIDE KID & TWO-GUN KID (Marvel, 2006 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

5 page story "With Gun in Hand!"

Characters Joe Cooper; Les Cooper; Natchez (Villain); Calhoun (Villain)
Synopsis Les Cooper learns a lesson from his cousin Joe Cooper, who refuses to wear a gun.
Genre Western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in RAWHIDE KID, The (Marvel, 1960 series) #55 (December 1966); in MARVEL MILESTONES: RAWHIDE KID & TWO-GUN KID (Marvel, 2006 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

5 page Rawhide Kid story "When the Rawhide Kid Turned... Outlaw!"

Characters Rawhide Kid (Johnny Bart); Sam Barker (Intro; Villain); Clay Rockwell; Nightwind (Rawhide Kid's Horse)
Synopsis Rawhide Kid discovers who has been rustling Clay Rockwell's cattle. In the process of catching the rustler, Rawhide Kid becomes an outlaw.
Genre Western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in RAWHIDE KID, The (Marvel, 1960 series) #86 (April 1971); in MARVEL MILESTONES: RAWHIDE KID & TWO-GUN KID (Marvel, 2006 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1