Gunsmoke Western
#68
(January 1962)
Marvel,
1955 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-11-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
- Brand
-
MC
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A. by The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury 20, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Anatomy of a Gun-Fight!
Kid Colt / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
Indexer Notes
Cover price surprinted to 12¢ from 10¢
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The Anatomy of a Gun-Fight!
Kid Colt / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Keller (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Keller (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-512
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Caleb (villain); Crow (villain); Cragg Morgan (villain, intro)
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Silver Spurs
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-763
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Kade Juniper; Carl Hardy; Carl Hardy, Jr.; Phil Hardy; Vince Merkin
- Synopsis
- A rancher's youngest son wins an contest for best-reared animal with his creative entry of an earthworm.
- Reprints
-
from Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #62 (July 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
To the Last Man!
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- V-513
- Genre
- western-frontier
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The Cowboy and the Soldier!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-521
- Genre
- western-frontier
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
The script is a repeat of J-886, "The Man Who Hated Soldiers!", published in Frontier Western #4 (August 1956).
Rustler!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number
- V-522
- Genre
- western-frontier
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Jow Dawson drawn to resemble John Wayne.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Anatomy of a Gun-Fight!
Kid Colt -
1.
The Anatomy of a Gun-Fight!
Kid Colt -
2.
The Silver Spurs
-
3.
To the Last Man!
-
4.
The Cowboy and the Soldier!
-
5.
Rustler!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ruben Cortes
- Merlin Haas
- Matthew Head
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
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