Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Two Gun Kid 89 (Sept, 1967)

 

As a rule, I was never into westerns too much.  Not movies, books or even comic books.  I would read the comic books, especially the Marvel ones, since Stan tried to interject some of his soap opera writing in there, but there was always a rotating cast for most of the stories.  Except the Two-Gun Kid.  He was not a misidentified outlaw, like the other two rannies pictured on the cover.  He also had the obligatory secret identity.  This is the story of how Two-Gun met Rawhide and Colt for the firs time.  Naturally, it involves a misunderstanding, but none of our heroes fight each other.  It is a good little story and the badguy confesses to Two-Gun.  All this in only 17 pages!

It sure would be a different kind of book now.  If done right it would be a good story, and could take about three issues.  For some reason Marvel never did that with their western books.  The art is quite nice, done by Ogden Whitney.  The other fun item is a letter from Tony Isabella in the letter's page.  I wish I had written more letters of comment to various comic book companies.

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