Kid Colt Outlaw #93
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeKid Colt Outlaw #93 is a representative artifact of the title at its creative peak — a well-oiled Atlas-to-Marvel transition-era western delivering the full house style of Stan Lee scripts and the Kirby/Ayers cover team that dominated the line from 1959 to 1965. Though not a landmark 'first appearance' issue, it exemplifies the storytelling formula — a wrongly accused outlaw outwitting criminals to restore his honor — that made Kid Colt the longest-running Western comic book in American history, eventually reaching 229 issues. The issue also offers a snapshot of Marvel's pre-superhero commercial engine: in the Publisher's Statement for 1960, Kid Colt ranked among the company's top sellers, sustaining the house financially in the months before the Fantastic Four changed everything.
In "The Ghost of Midnight Mountain!", Kid Colt flees wounded into the treacherous peaks of Midnight Mountain, where he stumbles upon a trio of outlaws masquerading as spirits to terrorize the countryside. As the fugitives confront each other in a desperate standoff, a sudden, violent force sends one of them plummeting to his death, leaving the others paralyzed with fear. With the truth buried in shadows and the mountain’s secrets still unspoken, Kid Colt is left to wonder—was it fate, or something far more unnatural that claimed Caleb?
In "The Man Who Hated Kid Colt!", a tense stagecoach ride takes a dangerous turn when passenger Talbot openly incites the other travelers to turn on Kid Colt, demanding his arrest. But as the pressure mounts, Kid Colt calmly unravels Talbot’s lies, revealing him as the real criminal—Sam Cantrell, a fugitive gold thief—before turning him over to the law.
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By October 1960 (cover date), Stan Lee had been the regular scripter on Kid Colt Outlaw since issue #77, having taken over from Joe Gill after the Atlas Implosion of 1957. Interior art chores remained in the hands of Jack Keller, who had been the title's primary penciler since issue #25 (March 1953) — a tenure that comics writer and historian Tony Isabella credited as possibly the longest run of any artist drawing a single Marvel character. Covers in this period were handled by the Kirby/Ayers team, which Marvel used across the bulk of its western covers from 1959 through 1965, giving the line a unified visual identity even as individual interior styles varied.
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- Cover-dated October 1960; released May 31, 1960; published by Atlas/Marvel at a cover price of ten cents for 36 pages.
- Lead story titled 'The Ghost of Midnight Mountain!' — Kid Colt investigates bandits exploiting the legend of a haunted mountain as cover for their hideout.
- Cover penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Dick Ayers, part of the Kirby/Ayers cover team that handled the bulk of Marvel's western covers from 1959 to 1965.
- Interior stories written by Stan Lee; lead story penciled by Jack Keller and inked by Dick Ayers — the core creative team on the title throughout this era.
- Issue contains four stories: 'The Ghost of Midnight Mountain!', 'Draw Or Die, Mister!', 'My Gun For Hire!' (penciled by Ross Andru, inked by Mike Esposito), and 'Guns Roar On the Last Train From Yuma!'
- Stan Lee had become the regular writer on Kid Colt Outlaw beginning with issue #77, following Joe Gill's departure after the 1957 Atlas Implosion.
- Jack Keller, the title's interior mainstay since issue #25 (1953), is credited by comics historian Tony Isabella as possibly holding the record for drawing more stories of a single Marvel character than any other artist.
- An image originally published in this issue was later reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw #176, confirming the story's continued use in Marvel's extensive western reprint program of the 1970s.
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↩ Reprints Quick Trigger Western #13 (1956)
Reprinted in Sheriff Classics #9125 (1969), Ranchserien #17 (1969), Ranchserien #36 (1969), Ranchserien #38 (1970), Sheriff Classics #9144 (1970), Sheriff Classics #9146 (1970), Western Gunfighters #18 (1973), Kid Colt Outlaw #176 (1973), Héroes del Oeste #399 (1974), Super Western Album #1 (1975), Sheriff Klassiker #125, Sheriff Klassiker #144, Sheriff Klassiker #146
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