Kid Colt Outlaw #90
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeKid Colt Outlaw #90 is a representative artifact of the Atlas-to-Marvel transitional moment: published with a cover date of May 1960 but distributed to newsstands in December 1959, it sits squarely in the period when Stan Lee had taken over all scripting duties and Jack Kirby (inked by Dick Ayers) had assumed the cover-art role — a pairing that would soon power Marvel's superhero renaissance. While the issue carries no landmark first appearances, it exemplifies the tight, morally earnest short-story format that kept Kid Colt one of Marvel's best-selling titles throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, demonstrating that the publisher's talent infrastructure was already in peak form before the Fantastic Four arrived. The title's longevity — it would eventually run to 229 issues, making it the longest-running Western comic book — owes a direct debt to the consistent creative assembly line visible here.
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By issue #90, Stan Lee had been the sole scripter on Kid Colt Outlaw since the Atlas Implosion of 1957, when Joe Gill departed and Lee absorbed the western line's writing duties. Jack Keller, who had anchored the interior art since issue #25 (March 1953), remained the primary penciler — his fifteen-year tenure on a single Marvel character stands as one of the longest artist-character partnerships in the company's history. The cover, penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Dick Ayers, was part of the sustained Kirby–Ayers cover run that stretched across the bulk of the title from 1959 to 1965, lending the series a visual consistency that contrasted with its anthology interiors.
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- Cover-dated May 1960; distributed to newsstands December 28, 1959 (release date per Marvel Comics Group history records indexed by the GCD).
- Lead story: 'The Man from Fargo!' — script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Keller, inks by Joe Sinnott; Kid Colt unmasks a bandit posing as a Wells Fargo courier and recovers stolen money.
- Second story involves Kid Colt allowing a man who helps him to turn him in to authorities so the reward money can fund a medical operation for the man's crippled son — a morally layered plot atypical of straight shoot-'em-up westerns.
- Cover art by Jack Kirby (pencils) and Dick Ayers (inks), part of their sustained cover run on the title spanning roughly 1959–1965.
- Interior art throughout the issue is by Jack Keller, whose unbroken run on Kid Colt Outlaw is among the longest artist-to-character partnerships in Marvel's publishing history.
- Stan Lee scripted all stories in the issue, consistent with his role as sole writer on the title following the Atlas Implosion of 1957.
- The lead story 'The Man from Fargo!' was reprinted multiple times in later Marvel issues, including Kid Colt Outlaw #181 (April 1974), #191 (February 1975), #192 (March 1975), #193 (April 1975), and #202 (January 1976), as well as in a 1971 all-reprint issue and in the Norwegian reprint series Ranchserien.
- No first appearances of named characters are recorded for this issue across available databases; it is a non-key issue in terms of debut significance.
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↩ Reprints Two Gun Kid #23 (1955)
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw #105 (1960), Kid Colt Outlaw #132 (1967), Sheriff Classics #9125 (1969), Sheriff Classics #9137 (1969), Ranchserien #17 (1969), Ranchserien #29 (1969), Ranchserien #38 (1970), Sheriff Classics #9146 (1970), Kid Colt Outlaw #152 (1971), Two Gun Kid #97 (1971), Western Adventure Library #4 (1971), Kid Colt Outlaw #157 (1972), Sheriff Classics #9234 (1973), Ranchserien #121 (1973), Ranchserien #122 (1973), Ranchserien #123 (1973), Ranchserien #126 (1973), Kid Colt Outlaw #181 (1974), Kid Colt Outlaw #191 (1975), Kid Colt Outlaw #192 (1975), Kid Colt Outlaw #193 (1975), Kid Colt Outlaw #202 (1976), Davy Crockett #53, Sheriff Klassiker #125 + 2 more
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