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Gunsmoke Western
Jack Keller
Jack Kirby
Joe Maneely
John Severin

Gunsmoke Western was an American

Old West heroes Kid Colt and the Two-Gun Kid, and work by such artists as Jack Kirby, John Severin, Joe Maneely, Doug Wildey
, and many others.

Publication history

Gunsmoke Western was published by

cover-dated Dec. 1955).[1] The series, which fell under the Marvel Comics banner with issue #65 (July 1961),[2]
ended with #77 (July 1963).

The publication had premiered in 1948 as the superhero comic All Winners, a.k.a. All-Winners Comics, vol. 2, then after one issue immediately became All Western Winners, a.k.a. All-Western Winners, for three issues; Western Winners for three issues; Black Rider for issues #8-27; and Western Tales of Black Rider for #28-31. The series was one of several Atlas Westerns that included Frontier Western; Western Gunfighters; and Western Thrillers and two successor series that took over its numbering, Cowboy Action and Quick-Trigger Western.

With the change to Gunsmoke Western, the series began starring

frontiersman character Billy Bucksin served as a backup feature for three issues, with anthological Western stories in-between. Issue #35 (June 1956) introduced the backup feature "Wyatt Earp", starring a version of the real-life lawman, for two issues before back-up features were dropped in favor of Kid Colt plus standalone stories. The Earp feature returned in issue #43 (Nov. 1957), running as backup (and in one instance as the lead feature) through #58 (May 1960).[1]

Clay Harder, introduced in 1948 as the first of Marvel's two Western heroes called the

retconned that Clay Harder was merely a dime novel
fictional character who inspired Hawk to become a masked Western crimefighter.

Occasional stories starred the Ringo Kid, the Gunsmoke Kid, and others.[1]

All cover art through issue #50 (Jan. 1959) was by either Severin or

penciled by Jack Kirby save for one each by Davis and Maneely. A wide range of artists drew the interior stories, with multiples drawn by artists including Keller, Kirby, Severin, Dick Ayers, Gene Colan, Don Heck, and Al Williamson, and at least two each by Matt Baker, Mort Drucker, Angelo Torres, George Tuska, and Doug Wildey, among others. Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, outside his normal realm of superhero and fantasy tales, drew one Gunsmoke Western story, "The Escape of Yancy Younger", written by Lee, in issue #66 (Sept. 1961).[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Gunsmoke Western at the Grand Comics Database.
  2. ^ Gunsmoke Western #65 at the Grand Comics Database. This was the first issue with the "MC" cover box. The final two issues were labeled "Marvel Comics Group"

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