(January 1963)

Marvel, 1955 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1962-11-01
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Newsstand Publications Inc.
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 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:

The Other Kid Colt! (Table of Contents)

Kid Colt / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Dick Ayers
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Kid Colt imposter
Cover Thumbnail for Gunsmoke Western (Marvel, 1955 series) #74 Cover Thumbnail for Gunsmoke Western (1955 series) #74 [British]
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The Other Kid Colt! (Table of Contents: 1)

Kid Colt / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils
Jack Keller (signed)
Inks
José Delbo ?; Jack Keller ?
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
X-44
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Kid Colt [himself and as Colt Kidder]; Steel; The Butler Brothers (villain, introduction); Kid Colt impostor (villain, introduction); Mister Brown

Indexer Notes

Job number originally from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Timely/Atlas discussion group and now confirmed.

Nick Caputo doubts the inking is the work of Jose Delbo. His Biblio on his website lists no credits for Atlas and his earliest stateside work is all for Dell.

Mirage (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
[F-766]
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Ken Raleigh; Jim Stoddard
Synopsis
A know-it-all visitor to the west finds that his book-learning hasn't prepared him for everything.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Peddler! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils
Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks
Paul Reinman (signed)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
X-46
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Ben Brown; Crow; Waco

Indexer Notes

Job number originally from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group and now confirmed.

Gamblin' Man! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils
Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks
Dick Ayers (signed)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Dick Ayers
Job Number
X-45
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Spade Black; Marshal Sam Carter; Jeb Nelson

Indexer Notes

Job number originally from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group and now confirmed.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Other Kid Colt!
    Kid Colt
  2. 1. The Other Kid Colt!
    Kid Colt
  3. 2. Mirage
  4. 3. The Peddler!
  5. 4. Gamblin' Man!
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  • Per Sandell
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