(November 1973)

Marvel, 1973 Series
 
Volume
1
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1973-08-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Roy Thomas (editor)

Issue Notes

Printed in the U. S. A. Reprints courtesy of Atlas Magazines, Inc., copyright 1964. Office of publication: 575 Madison Avenue, new York, N.Y. 10072. Marvel Comics Group, A Division of Cadence Corporation.
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #99.

Ride the Lawless Land! (Table of Contents)

Dakota Kid; Rawhide Kid / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Larry Lieber; John Romita (see notes)
Inks
Vince Colletta; John Romita (see notes)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Rawhide Kid; Dakota Kid
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colletta inks. Previous indexer credited Larry Lieber. Romita alterations on Dakota Kid's face. Info per Nick Caputo, January 2011.

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Ride the Lawless Land! (Table of Contents: 1)

Dakota Kid; Rawhide Kid / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Larry Lieber
Pencils
Larry Lieber
Inks
Vince Colletta
Colors
George Roussos
Letters
June Braverman
Job Number
1627-Z
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Rawhide Kid [Johnny Clay]; The Dakota Kid [Cliff Morgan] (introduction, origin); Colonel Morgan (Cliff's father); Wayde Morgan (Cliff's brother, death); Rachel Morgan (Cliff's sister); Logan (foreman, death); unnamed rustlers (deaths); Lily Lamont; Luke Thomson (death); unnamed sheriff; unnamed overeager gunslick (death); Nightwind
Synopsis
The Rawhide Kid meets the Dakota Kid, the rough son of a rancher. Dakota winds up in jail after killing Thomson when he threatened Lily. After Wayde is killed by cattle rustlers, Dakota breaks out of prison to avenge his brother. With Rawhide's help, Dakota defeats the rustlers, but now he must be an outlaw like Rawhide Kid.

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

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

Script
Jack Oleck
Pencils
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks
Jack Davis (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original editor)
Job Number
0-316
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Piutes were a noble tribe...
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Gunsmoke Kid; Andrews; Benton; unnamed members of Piute tribe; King (a wolf); unnamed Piute medicine man
Synopsis
Gunsmoke Kid and a prospector turn an Indian tribe allied with a claim jumper against their ally by playing on superstition.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Source corrected by T. Ostrowski via the GCD Error Tracker.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Ride the Lawless Land!
    Dakota Kid; Rawhide Kid
  2. 1. Ride the Lawless Land!
    Dakota Kid; Rawhide Kid
  3. 2. ["The Piutes were a noble tribe..."]
    Gunsmoke Kid
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Nick Caputo
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore
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