Category Archives: Western

Typical day on the range for Kid Colt…

That horse must get so sick of this after a while. Catch train, get shot at, have the Kid jump off at full gallop…

A nice little Kirby/Ayers cover.

Published 1962

I love the figure of Grizzly Grogan on this cover, a great rough and cruel Kirby villain type that he refined over the years until we got the likes of Kalibak a decade later.

Inks on this cover by Dick Ayers.

Published 1963

Doesn’t look like Kid Colt is the most popular guy in Gila Pass. But the Kid has fear? A thousand times no! (sorry, been watching a lot of TV recently…)

Dick Ayers inks over Kirby on this cover.

Published 1960

Here’s a nice later western cover from Kirby, with a great feeling of some invisible weight coming down on Kid Colt as mentioned in the dialogue, and a nice worried look on his face. I also really like the inking on the villain of the piece. This one is inked by Paul Reinman.

Published 1963

You’d think by 1959 a comic book publisher could have figured out how to put the comics code stamp on a cover without making it look like the book is called GUNSMOKB WESTERN, wouldn’t you?

Anyway, another of Kirby’s covers early on his return to Marvel, featuring two characters he didn’t draw interiors for but drew on a lot of covers. Split covers like this always look a bit cramped, but in this case I like how it emphasizes the tall, lanky look of Earp and the crowding of the group around Kid Colt.

Inking on this one is credited to Chris Rule.

Published 1959