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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published October 1960
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Wolf Waco Strikes!"

Characters Rawhide Kid [Johnny Bart]; Wolf Waco
Genre Western
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

13 page Rawhide Kid story "At the Mercy of Wolf Waco!"

Characters Rawhide Kid [Johnny Bart]; Wolf Waco (villain, intro, dies)
Genre Western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes Divided into Chapter One, "At the Mercy of Wolf Waco!" (7 pp.) and Chapter 2, "The Rawhide Kid Strikes Back!" (6 pp.). Note on splash refers reader to the origin story in "number 18 [sic], August."
Reprinted in Rawhide Kid, The (Marvel, 1960 series) #92 (October 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

2 page text story "The Brave White Man"

Genre western
Pencils Joe Maneely (spot illustrations)
Inks Joe Maneely (spot illustrations)
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Two Gun Kid (Marvel, 1953 series) #45 (December 1958)

5 page story "The Midnight Raiders"

Characters "Wild Bill" Hickok
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Notes Art credits from Tom Lammers via the GCD Main List (25 May 2005); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers with both pencils and inks. Features western lawman James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-1876).
Reprinted in Rawhide Kid, The (Marvel, 1960 series) #92 (October 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1

5 page Rawhide Kid story "A Legend Is Born"

Characters Rawhide Kid [Johnny Bart]; Hammer Hogan (villain)
Synopsis some statistics on Rawhide Kid revealed
Genre western
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes Retold as "The Birth of a Legend!" in Rawhide Kid, The #35.
Reprinted in Rawhide Kid, The (Marvel, 1960 series) #92 (October 1971); in Marvel Masterworks: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 2006 series) #1