Rawhide Kid's full name was revealed in issue # 60 in the Letter's Column as John Barton Clay. I know that at the time I wanted - what's the expression? - a little space for myself or something, and I wanted to do a little drawing again. I'm a little unclear about leaving the superheroes and going to Rawhide Kid. When I did Rawhide Kid, I wanted people to cry as if they were watching High Noon or something. I didn't want to give a light tone to it. I remember, at the time, I wanted to make everything serious. Maybe there was just too much humor in it, or too much something. What I didn't prefer was the style that was developing. I didn't do enough of the superheroes to know whether I'd like them. I don't remember why I wanted to do it, particularly. After several issues by Ayers, followed by a single issue by long-time Kid Colt artist Jack Keller, Larry Lieber, Lee's writer brother, began his nine-year run as the series' writer-artist, which lasted over 75 issues from 1964–1973. Issues #33-35 were drawn by EC Comics veteran Jack Davis - some of the last color comics he would draw before gaining fame at the black-and-white satirical comics magazine Mad. 1963), while helping to launch the Fantastic Four, the Hulk and other iconic characters of the "Marvel revolution". Kirby continued as penciler through #32 (Feb. A later misunderstanding between the Kid and a sheriff over a cattle rustler that the Kid wounded in self-defense led to the hero's life as a fugitive. Shortly after Johnny's 18th birthday, Ben Bart was murdered Johnny, an almost preternaturally fast and accurate gunman, wounded the killers and left them to be taken into custody. Older brother Frank Clay, captured by Native Americans, eventually escaped and became a gambler, while eldest brother Joe Clay became sheriff of the town of Willow Flats neither were in the regular cast, and each died in a guest appearance. Through retcon, bits of and pieces of the Atlas and Silver Age characters' history meshed, so that the unnamed infant son of settlers the Clay family, orphaned by a Cheyenne raid, was raised by Texas Ranger Ben Bart on a ranch near Rawhide, Texas.
Stringently moral, the Kid nevertheless showed a gleeful pride in his shooting and his acrobatic fight skills - never picking arguments, but constantly forced to surprise lummoxes far bigger than he was. Fury and His Howling Commandos, The Rawhide Kid was now a freewheeling romp of energetic, almost slapstick action across cattle ranches, horse troughs, corrals, canyons and swinging chandeliers.
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As in the outsized, exuberantly exaggerated action of the later-to-come World War II series Sgt. 1960), the title now featured a diminutive yet confident, soft-spoken fast gun constantly underestimated by bullying toughs, varmints, owlhoots, polecats, crooked saloon owners and other archetypes squeezed through the prism of Lee and Kirby's anarchic imagination. Continuing the Atlas numbering with issue #17 (Aug. Marvel Comics Īfter a hiatus, the Rawhide Kid was revamped for what was now Marvel Comics by writer Stan Lee, penciler Jack Kirby and inker Ayers. Interior art for the first five issues was by Bob Brown, with Dick Ayers at the reins thereafter. Most of the covers from the series were produced by highly acclaimed artists, generally either Joe Maneely or John Severin, but also Russ Heath and Fred Kida. 1957) from Marvel's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics. The Rawhide Kid debuted in a 16-issue series (March 1955-Sept. In two mature-audience miniseries, in 20, he is depicted as gay. He and other Marvel western heroes have on rare occasions guest-starred through time travel in such contemporary titles as The Avengers and West Coast Avengers. A heroic gunfighter of the 19th-century American West who was unjustly wanted as an outlaw, he is one of Marvel's most prolific Western characters. The Rawhide Kid (real name: Johnny Bart, originally given as Johnny Clay) is a fictional Old West cowboy appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Rawhide Kid #1 (March 1955) (second version)
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