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Issue Details

Issue #106
Published September 1962
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in June 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Circus of Crime"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Sawyer's Circus [Mr. Sawyer; Blade Benson; Mister Marvel; Captain Corbett]
Genre western
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #179 (February 1974)

7 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Kid Joins the Circus! [The Circus of Crime! Chapter One]"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Sawyer's Circus [Mr. Sawyer; Blade Benson; Mister Marvel;Captain Corbett]
Synopsis Kid Colt accidentally takes refuge with a circus run by criminals who try to force him to help them loot a town.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw #179 (February 1974); in Mighty Marvel Western, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #2 (December 1968)

6 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "The Last Performance [Circus of Crime! Chapter 2]"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel; Sawyer's Circus [Mr. Sawyer; Blade Benson; Mister Marvel;Captain Corbett]
Synopsis The Kid stops the circus performers and captures them all before escaping.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller

2 page text story "The Loners"

Characters Hair-Trigger Harry [Clarence Oswald Harrison]; Sheriff Bill Parker; Percy van Schuyler
Synopsis A boy grows up to be a loner because of taunts, but when he sees another youth with a similar problem in danger he reaches out and finds the acceptance of the community.
Genre western
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Apache Kid (Marvel, 1950 series) #15 (August 1955)

5 page story "The Black Mask"

Characters Black Mask [Snell]
Synopsis The town newspaper editor accuses the sheriff of secretly being a masked bandit, but the bandit is really the editor.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series) #129 (July 1966)

5 page Kid Colt Outlaw story "Fury At Fort Tioga!"

Characters Kid Colt [Blaine Colt]; Steel
Synopsis Kid Colt saves a fort from attacking Apaches with a bluff, even though the soldiers didn't trust him.
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Keller
Inks Jack Keller