Marvel Westerns (Silver Age)

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thecopperagekids · September 27, 2016

Definitely one of the best of the Marvel Westerns. We should do a poll for top 5 or 10

heres my candidates:

Rawhide Kid 17

Rawhide Kid 22

Rawhide Kid 23

Two Gun Kid 58

Two Gun Kid 60

Kid Colt 100

Kid Colt 107

The next three get more difficult.

Kid Colt 93 Ghost cover

Kid Colt 106 posible Ringmaster Circus Crime prototype

...plus maybe other tenuous super-hero "prototype" issues like Kid Colt 114 Iron Mask

I'd add Rawhide Kid 39 in before any kinda/maybe super hero prototype books....King Kong cover swipe.

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Rawhide_Kid_Vol_1_39

crimson dynamo · September 27, 2016

The Kid is about to get "Donkey Konged" :facepalm:

Edited September 27, 2016 by crimson dynamo

Aman619 · September 27, 2016

Idunno. It never stood out to me as more than just another monkey cover. But on a western, I get your point.

STLSPIDEY · October 9, 2016

Hey folks I'm a Jonah Hex collector looking to branch out into other westerns.

What are the silver age keys I should keep an eye out for?

Thanks.

KirbyJack · October 9, 2016

We're kind of in the process of sorting those out currently. Read back a couple pages and stay tuned!

I'll also nominate the "Black Rider Rides Again" one-shot as a SA Marvel western of particular interest!

STLSPIDEY · October 9, 2016

ok. thanks.

Sqeggs · October 9, 2016

The Kid is about to get "Donkey Konged"

The perspective here seems off. The guy in the purple coat hanging out the window is either a giant or was drawn too large. And the guy with the yellow glove pointing up (and his buddies) also seems large compared with the saloon he's in front of.

*Bronze age fan* · October 9, 2016

We're kind of in the process of sorting those out currently. Read back a couple pages and stay tuned!

I'll also nominate the "Black Rider Rides Again" one-shot as a SA Marvel western of particular interest!

:cloud9:

STLSPIDEY · October 9, 2016

That is a cool looking cover.

What do those fetch raw?

Aman619 · October 9, 2016

Yeah. Although the guys in from may be supposed to be on a roof across the street, or a balcony. Biggest problem is that the ape building is adjacent to the guy in window building, so the perspective is all off.

Makes me think the tiny sized ape was always a factor that made me less impressed by this cover. A Huuuge ape would have been much more dramatic!

KirbyJack · October 9, 2016

That cover is just a miss, I must admit. I can only imagine that it was a real rush job and there was either no time to redo or, because it was a western, no one thought it was worth redoing!

Consider some of the covers that Kirby and Romita turned in that Stan rejected.

gradejunky · October 9, 2016

That #39 is a total mess for sure. The perspective as said before is all wrong and the foreshortening is even worse.

Aman619 · October 10, 2016

I looked again and Kirby did draw a balcony for the guys in lower left. But window guy is huge. Probably because he made him same size as Rawhide Kid cause the perspective was going to be Wong either way, if he was same size as window proportions RK would have been too big.

But that would have been better as the ape would have been more Titano sized,

Anyway, cover should have been more like the Flash 127 with Grodd holding Flash above his huge ape body.. Plus some townspeople running around scared!