Cover: Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers

Kid Colt Outlaw #91

Jul 1960 · Marvel · 0.10 USD

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Kid Colt Outlaw #91 arrives right at the cusp of Marvel's transition out of the Atlas era and into what would become the Silver Age proper, placing it squarely in one of the most creatively fertile stretches of the title's 229-issue run — the longest Western comic in Marvel history. Its lead story, 'The Death of Kid Colt!', carries a deliberately provocative title that speaks to the serialized storytelling ambitions Stan Lee was bringing to the western genre: raising genuine narrative stakes around an outlaw hero with a heroic conscience. The issue also introduces villain Yancy Hawks, who meets his end within that same story — a compact, self-contained morality play typical of the anthology-within-a-series format Lee and Jack Keller had refined. The fact that its lead story was reprinted at least twice in later issues (Kid Colt Outlaw #132 and #154) confirms that Marvel's editorial staff considered it among the stronger material from this era of the run.

Contains 4 stories

The Death of Kid Colt!

7 pp · Western-Frontier

Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]SteelCrow Gantry

In "The Death of Kid Colt!", the outlaw Gantry and his gang rule Dry Gulch with fear until Kid Colt arrives to challenge them. When the odds seem insurmountable, Colt devises a daring plan—feigning death with the help of a local to slip past the gang’s guard and turn the tide.

The Outlaw and the Lady!

6 pp · Western-Frontier

Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]SteelBilly CarterCrusher HoganMary

The Gun!

4 pp · Western-Frontier

Oregon Hull

Gunduel in the Desert!

5 pp · Western-Frontier

Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]SteelYancy Hawks

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (VG) $25

CGC 9.8 $6,347*

CGC 9.6 $1,996*

CGC 9.4 $1,089

CGC 9.2 $683*

CGC 9.0 $490*

CGC 8.5 $490*

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CGC 8.0 $256*

CGC 7.5 $111*

CGC 7.0 $93*

CGC 6.5 $76*

CGC 6.0 $68*

CGC 5.5 $55*

CGC 5.0 $51*

CGC 4.5 $40*

CGC 4.0 $37*

CGC 3.5 $30*

CGC 3.0 $26*

CGC 2.5 $22*

CGC 2.0 $20*

CGC 1.5 $20*

CGC 1.0 $20*

CGC 0.5 $20*

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History

By the time issue #91 shipped with a February 29, 1960 release date and a July 1960 cover date, Stan Lee had been writing the title for several years, having taken over scripting duties in the late 1950s. Jack Keller, who had been the defining interior artist on the series since issue #25 (1953), supplied the pencils, continuing the visual language he had established across hundreds of western tales. The cover was provided by Jack Kirby — part of the Kirby/Dick Ayers cover-art partnership that dominated Kid Colt Outlaw covers from 1959 through 1965 — while Artie Simek handled lettering. This creative division of labor, Kirby selling the book from the outside and Keller storytelling from within, was the house formula that kept the series commercially steady heading into the superhero revolution that was just around the corner.

Trivia · 8 facts

Published with a release date of February 29, 1960 and a cover date of July 1960 (Marvel/Atlas era).
Lead story titled 'The Death of Kid Colt!' — a high-stakes title typical of Stan Lee's approach to the western genre at this stage of the series.
Written by Stan Lee, with interior pencils by Jack Keller and lettering by Artie Simek.
Cover art penciled by Jack Kirby, part of the Kirby/Dick Ayers cover partnership that ran on the title from 1959 to 1965.
Features the first (and final) appearance of villain Yancy Hawks, who dies within the issue; Kid Colt's horse Steel also appears as a supporting character.
Kid Colt (alter ego Blaine Colt) is depicted as a fugitive outlaw-hero — his core characterization as a man wrongly branded an outlaw who nonetheless does good deeds.
The lead story was reprinted at least twice in later issues of the series: Kid Colt Outlaw #132 and Kid Colt Outlaw #154, indicating it was regarded as representative material for reprint packages.
Kid Colt Outlaw as a series ran 229 issues (1948–1979), making it the longest-running Western comic book title in American publishing history — issue #91 falls near the midpoint of the original-material era.