(February 1949)

Marvel, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1948-12-09
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Leading Comic Corp.
Brand
Marvel Comic [round logo]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Indexed from some information from Saltarella and atlastales.com.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1948, 3rd Series, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 207, Copyright number: B167965.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Kid Colt / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Syd Shores
Colors
Stan Goldberg ?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier

Six-Gun Deadline! (Table of Contents: 1)

Kid Colt / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Ernie Hart
Pencils
Russ Heath
Inks
Russ Heath
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
4460
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Kid Colt; Sam Snark [Ben Charters]; Sam Graham; Madge Graham; Amos Sniveley; Dandy Kilroy
Synopsis
An old acquaintance of Kid Colt's offers him the opportunity to help swindle a rancher out of his cattle, but the Kid sides with the rancher instead.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Fight or Crawl, Outlaw! (Table of Contents: 3)

Kid Colt / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Ernie Hart
Pencils
Russ Heath
Inks
Russ Heath
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
4518
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Kid Colt; Tiger Lowery; Jack Renault [Rocco Rossido]; Preacher Perkins; Sheriff Baylis
Synopsis
A fixed boxing match and a crooked preacher nearly take Kid Colt down.

That Sleepy Man (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
SL-3431
Genre
western-frontier
Reprints

Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1948
Owners: Hercules Publishing Corp. and Martin Goodman, both at 350 5th Avenue, New York 1, N.Y.

The indicia publisher of all four issues in this series is Leading Comic Corp., so Hercules Publishing Corp may be listed in error.

Bushwhacker's Boomerang! (Table of Contents: 6)

Kid Colt / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Ernie Hart
Pencils
Russ Heath
Inks
Russ Heath
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
4381
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Kid Colt; Black Barstow
Synopsis
After Black Barstow's gang robs a bank, Kid Colt helps the townspeople capture them, since the town's sheriff is off trying to capture Kid Colt.

The Killers of Abilene! (Table of Contents: 7)

Tex Taylor / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Pierce Rice ?
Inks
Dick Rockwell ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
3898
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Tex Taylor; Nick Fallon; Dick Jerris
Synopsis
Tex hunts the man who murdered a friend of his father.

Indexer Notes

art credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com.

The Giant of the Badlands! (Table of Contents: 8)

Kid Colt / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
4496
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Kid Colt; Mortimer Mild; Giant Bunyan
Synopsis
Kid Colt encounters the insane grandson of Paul Bunyan, a giant who hates normal-sized people.
Reprints
Keywords
Paul Bunyan

Indexer Notes

Sekowsky pencils and unknown inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Syd Shores on pencils and inks.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Kid Colt
  2. 1. Six-Gun Deadline!
    Kid Colt
  3. 2. ["Hi friends: Lately there has been quite a debate about comics raging in the pages of the Saturday Review of Literature,"]
  4. 3. Fight or Crawl, Outlaw!
    Kid Colt
  5. 4. That Sleepy Man
  6. 5. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.
  7. 6. Bushwhacker's Boomerang!
    Kid Colt
  8. 7. The Killers of Abilene!
    Tex Taylor
  9. 8. The Giant of the Badlands!
    Kid Colt
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Henry Andrews
  • Dwayne Best
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Rob Johnson
  • Dan Kocher
  • Stephen Mitchell
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Banks S. Robinson
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore