The Rawhide Kid #94
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeRawhide Kid #94 stands as a quietly significant moment in Marvel's Bronze Age Western output: its lead story, 'Day of the Outcast,' directly confronts racial prejudice by centering Rafe Larsen, a Black gunfighter, and depicting the Rawhide Kid as his unlikely ally rather than his adversary — a notably progressive choice for an early-1970s genre comic. The cover, which misleadingly frames Larsen as a threat shooting at the Kid, actually inverts the story's moral, making the gap between cover imagery and interior narrative itself a commentary on assumptions about race. That the tale was later deemed worthy of reprinting in the title's own reprint era (in issue #146, 1978) confirms its standing as one of the more thematically resonant entries in the long-running series. For students of Marvel's Western line, this issue represents Larry Lieber's genre work at its most socially engaged.
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Larry Lieber — younger brother of Stan Lee and co-creator of Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man — was the primary steward of the Rawhide Kid title from 1964 onward, handling both writing and art duties across more than 75 consecutive issues through 1973. Issue #94 falls squarely within that sustained run, with coloring by George Roussos; the eBay product data also lists Dick Ayers as a credited contributor, though his exact role (cover inks or back-up story art) is not confirmed across multiple independent sources. The issue carries a cover date of December 1971 and a release date of September 14, 1971, placing it at the tail end of the series' all-original-material phase before the title shifted predominantly to reprints around 1973.
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- Story title: 'Day of the Outcast' — the lead story of Rawhide Kid #94, cover-dated December 1971, released September 14, 1971.
- Written and drawn by Larry Lieber, Stan Lee's younger brother and Marvel co-creator of Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man, during his nine-year run as the series' primary writer-artist (approx. 1964–1973).
- Colored by George Roussos; Dick Ayers is also credited in product records for the issue, though his precise contribution (cover or interior) is not fully corroborated.
- The story introduces Rafe Larsen, a Black gunfighter — a rare lead supporting character of color in a Marvel Western of this era — whom the Rawhide Kid allies with rather than opposes, despite the cover's misleading depiction.
- The cover image shows Larsen apparently shooting at the Kid, which directly contradicts the interior narrative in which the Kid takes Larsen's side; this tension between cover and story is noted by comic historians as a pointed subversion.
- The issue is part of the original-material phase of the first Rawhide Kid volume (1955–1979), which ran 151 issues total before the title became primarily a reprint book circa 1973.
- 'Day of the Outcast' was later reprinted in Rawhide Kid #146 (July 1978), paired with a back-up reprint from Outlaw Kid #10, confirming its editorial staying power within the line.
- The Rawhide Kid series as a whole featured Marvel's signature conflicted-outlaw-hero formula — the Kid is a wrongly branded fugitive — which Larry Lieber drew inspiration from classic Western cinema, including the moral framework of High Noon.
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↩ Reprints Rawhide Kid #10 (1956)
Reprinted in Sheriff Classics #9207 (1972), Ranchserien #99 (1972), The Rawhide Kid #146 (1978), Héroes del Oeste #299, Sheriff Klassiker #205
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