(May 1963)

Marvel, 1953 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bimonthly
On-sale Date
1963-02-05
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Non-Pareil Publishing Co.
Brand
MC
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:

The Guns of Wild Bill Taggert (Table of Contents)

Two-Gun Kid / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Dick Ayers
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Dick Ayers ?

Genre
western-frontier

Indexer Notes

Previous indexer suggested someone other that Ayers inked the cover but Nick Caputo believes this is Ayers' work.

The Guns of Wild Bill Taggert (Table of Contents: 1)

Two-Gun Kid / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Dick Ayers (credited)
Inks
Dick Ayers (credited)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

Job Number
X-142
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Two-Gun Kid; Wild Bill Taggert (villain, introduction, death); Ken Kincaid (introduction)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/dick-ayers-two…

Deputy's Puzzle (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
G-522
Reprints

The Lawman Cometh (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Paul Reinman (credited)
Inks
Paul Reinman (credited)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

Genre
western-frontier
Reprints

The Bronc Buster (Table of Contents: 4)

Two-Gun Kid / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Dick Ayers (credited)
Inks
Dick Ayers (credited)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

Job Number
X-143
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Two-Gun Kid; Matt Hawk; Laredo Smith (introduction)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Dick Ayers recalls this story as the first one he worked from Stan Lee's plot synopsis (AKA Marvel method). While The job number on the lead story is earlier (X-142) its entirely possible Ayers received both assignments around the same period and possibly worked on that story Marvel method as well. Info per Nick Caputo, March 2013.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Guns of Wild Bill Taggert
    Two-Gun Kid
  2. 1. The Guns of Wild Bill Taggert
    Two-Gun Kid
  3. 2. Deputy's Puzzle
  4. 3. The Lawman Cometh
  5. 4. The Bronc Buster
    Two-Gun Kid
This issue was modified by, among others
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Keith Chandler
  • Steve Coates
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Jim Walls