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Issue Details

Issue #99
Published July 1961
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in April 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Guns Roar In Gila Pass!"

Characters Blackie Barker; Patch Thrasher; Red Thrasher
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #173 (August 1973)

7 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Guns Roar In Gila Pass: Chapter 1: How It Began"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel Blackie Barker; Patch Thrasher; Red Thrasher; Seth Barker
Synopsis Kid Colt is called to a friend's deathbed and asked to help his nephew, but he discovers that the nephew is secretly in league with bandits and drove the old man to an early death.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #173 (August 1973)

2 page text story "The Peaceful Man"

Characters Jed Partriss; Rud Hankel; Sheriff Dick Swidger; Joe Trumper
Synopsis A travelling musician averts a cattle war with the power of song.
Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Matt Slade Gunfighter (Marvel, 1956 series) #2 (July 1956)

6 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Guns Roar In Gila Pass (Part 2)"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Patch Thrasher; Red Thrasher
Synopsis The Kid captures the Thrasher twins and reveals Blackie's schemeing.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #173 (August 1973)

5 page story "When a Man's Afraid"

Characters Ben; Sheriff Mack North; Clem Yurdle
Synopsis When a man loses a gunfight due to bad luck it shakes his confidence.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Ghost Rider (Marvel, 1967 series) #2 (April 1967); in Giant-Size Kid Colt (Marvel, 1975 Series) #2 (April 1975)

5 page Tales From Kid Colt's Boyhood story "The Making of the Man!"

Characters Blaine Colt; Dan Colt
Synopsis Kid Colt is given his first gun at the age of fifteen and discovers his gift for a fast draw and the fear it causes.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Notes This is the first Tale From Kid Colt's Boyhood story.