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Issue Details

Issue #87
Published November 1959
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in July 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 - "Give Me Your Guns!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Klein
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (22 December 2006). Original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Fury At the Circle-R!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Moss; Mr. Durstine; Miss Rand
Synopsis The Kid uncovers a cattle rustling operation run by a corrupt foreman.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #168 (March 1973)

2 page text story "The Slacker"

Characters Ben Furness; Cal Furness; Tate Hascomb
Synopsis A cattle rancher's son's secret love of machines ends up saving the farm.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Western Outlaws (Marvel, 1954 series) #15 (June 1956)

7 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Give Me Your Guns!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Gunner Hawkins
Synopsis Kid Colt finds a town that will accept him, but when he breaks his promise not to carry guns to stop a robbery he feels compelled to leaved.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #169 (April 1973)

6 page Gunsmoke Kid story "Secret Weapon!"

Characters Gunsmoke Kid; Andrews; Benton; King
Synopsis Gunsmoke Kid and a prospector turn an Indian tribe allied with a claim jumper against their ally by playing on superstition.
Genre western
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Notes This is the last original Gunsmoke Kid story. The story before this one was in Gunsmoke Western (Marvel, 1955 series) #55 (November 1959).

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Mark of the Outlaw!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Seth
Synopsis The Kid acts like a thug to deter a boy from an outlaw life.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #168 (March 1973)