Kid Colt Outlaw #67
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeKid Colt Outlaw #67 is a representative mid-run chapter in what became the longest continuously published Western comic in American history — a series that ran 31 years from 1948 to 1979, well into the Silver Age. Published under the Atlas Comics banner in late 1956, it arrived just as the imprint was transitioning toward the house style and editorial discipline that would eventually become Marvel Comics. The issue carries a cover by Joe Maneely, whose prolific output for Atlas in the mid-1950s helped define the visual identity of the line before his sudden death in 1958; every Maneely-covered issue from this era is part of a sadly finite body of work. Interior art throughout is by Jack Keller, the artist most closely identified with Kid Colt, who drew more stories of the character than anyone else and may hold the record for most stories drawn of any single Marvel character.
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By issue #67, the Kid Colt Outlaw title had been running continuously for nearly eight years, shepherded editorially by Stan Lee and driven creatively by Jack Keller, who had taken over interior art duties starting with issue #25 (March 1953) and would remain the series' defining penciler for well over a decade. The issue shipped with an on-sale date of September 4, 1956, carrying a December 1956 cover date — the standard Atlas practice of advancing cover dates by several months. Joe Maneely, Lee's go-to cover artist across hundreds of Atlas books, supplied the exterior image, as he did for a documented cluster of Kid Colt issues in this period including #65, #67, #68, #69, and others in the run.
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- The lead story is titled 'The Snake Tattoo!' — the title that identifies the issue across all major databases including the Marvel Fandom Wiki and Hey Kids Comics Wiki.
- The issue carries a cover date of December 1956, with an on-sale/release date of September 4, 1956, per the Marvel Database.
- Cover art is by Joe Maneely, who contributed covers to a large swath of Kid Colt Outlaw issues in the mid-1950s; this is one of the last years of his life, as he died in 1958.
- All interior story art is by Jack Keller, who began his long tenure on the series with issue #25 (1953) and is described by comics historian Tony Isabella as having 'drew more Kid Colt stories than any other artist.'
- The issue contains four stories: 'The Snake Tattoo,' 'The Plundered Stage,' 'The Missing Witness,' and 'The Dude' — all drawn by Keller.
- Published under the Atlas Comics imprint, which was Marvel's operating identity during the 1950s before the company rebranded as Marvel Comics in the early 1960s.
- Kid Colt Outlaw ran for 229 total issues (1949–1979), making it the longest-running cowboy-star series in American comic-book history; issue #67 falls in the heart of the original all-new-content era, before the reprint-heavy phase that began around issue #139 (1966).
- No dedicated key-issue designation (first appearance, landmark story, crossover, etc.) has been identified for this specific issue across Key Collector Comics, GoCollect, or the Marvel Database, which lists the issue's full content as currently unavailable for detailed indexing.
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Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw #33 (1957), Ranchserien #19 (1969), Sheriff Classics #9147 (1970), Ranchserien #39 (1970), Kid Colt Outlaw #155 (1971), The Mighty Marvel Western #14 (1971), Top Gun Picture Library #1 (1973), Ranchserien #127 (1973), Kid Colt Outlaw #95, Sheriff Klassiker #127, Sheriff Klassiker #147
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