KID COLT OUTLAW 49 a vfn 1961 Silver Age 68 page UK Strato B&W comic KIRBY cover
$ 11.72
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I Will Always Combine Postage, UK only. Read My Descriptions, See my Feedback, View My Photos, Visit My Other Listings All Silver/Bronze age comics are posted in comics bags with backing boards inside rigid envelopes All photographs are of the item you are bidding on. I do not use stock shots. See below for original American publication details and creator credits. Kid Colt 49 uk Published by Strato Publications (Thorpe & Porter) in 1961. 68 Page Black & White UK comic which reprints silver age Marvel/Atlas and DC Comics western strips. Cover by Jack Kirby originally from Kid Colt Outlaw 83 Published March 1959. A great compilation featuring some of the great early silver age creators including a Jack Kirby cover, Stan Lee, Jack Keller, Joe Maneely, Joe Sinnott, Gil Kane, Gardner Fox, Mark L Pakula, Doug Wildey and Carmine Infantino. For your 1961 1/- you got a reprint of Marvel/Atlas Kid Colt Oulaw 83 from March 1959, a strip each from Atlas’s 1955 Outlaw Kid 3 & 5 and 3 strips from DC Comics 1959 Western Comics 73. Original Cover Price 1/- Condition Very Fine Covers. This is a flat perfect bound book which means pages are glued to the spine rather than stapled. Cover is firmly attached to pages with very minor stress. Minor spine, edge and corner wear. Back cover has a feint 5cm corner crease. Front cover colour is bright, clean and reflective little dimmed by its 65 years. Back cover is clean and white Inside covers are white and clean with very minor margin tanning.. Inside. All pages are firmly attached to spine without stress. They are cream and unblemished. Lovely condition. The following are all reprinted from Kid Colt Oulaw 83. Published by Atlas/Marvel in March 1959. The Capture of Kid Colt!, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Keller, inks by Chris Rule; Kid Colt gives himself up to help a good sheriff get re-elected. Ranch Hand's Luck text story, art by Joe Maneely. Midnight Hawkins, Gunman!, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Keller, inks by Chris Rule; Kid Colt stops a gang from robbing an old man. No Place To Hide!, art by Joe Sinnott ; Three crooks try to frame an innocent man for a murder they committed, but their scheme is exposed when the victim turns out to have survived. Stagecoach To San Antoine!, script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Keller, inks by Chris Rule; Kid Colt catches a ride on a stagecoach, and the passengers learn a lesson about rushing to judgement when he stops a respectable-looking passenger from robbing them. The following are reprinted from Western Comics 73 published in February 1959 by DC Comics. The Return of the Fadeaway Outlaw starring Pow Wow Smith, script by Gardner Fox, art by Carmine Infantino. Nighthawk's Tricky Dilemma, script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Bernard Sachs. The Riddle Robber starring the Wyoming Kid, script by Gardner Fox, art by Howard Sherman. The following is reprinted from Outlaw Kid 5 published in May 1955 by Atlas. "The Flames of Violence," art by Doug Wildey ; The Outlaw Kid is helping the sheriff of Caliber City keep a lynch mob away from Larkin a man who robbed a coach and is accused of murdering the driver, telling the mob that Larkin deserves the right to a fair trial; After quietly telling the sheriff to sneak Larkin out the back door, the Kid is assisted by a man named Mason who appears to believe that Larkin deserves a fair trial as well and the mob disburses. …..And from 1955’s Outlaw Kid 3 - The Fence a short drawn by Mac L Pakula a moody artist normally associated with silver age war comics, undervalued I think. Active throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Thorpe & Porter was a distributor of American comics in the UK, and also published a number of original titles mostly using reprinted American material from various publishers, including the misadventures of Laurel & Hardy. They are also notable for having published The Avengers, a 68 page one-off title based on the cult TV show in 1966, as well as repackaging unsold copies of American titles as Double Double Comics. From 1959, they also published the British editions of Mad Magazine and Classics Illustrated. They were eventually bought by the distribution arm of America's DC Comics, one of the companies which they had formerly handled UK distribution for. Top Sellers (publishers of Super DC, Miracle Man, Psycho and Nightmare) and Strato Comics were also originally imprints of Thorpe & Porter (Top Sellers was active well into the 1970s). They also published Superboy Annuals in conjunction with Atlas Publishing & Distributing Ltd. 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