“The Outlaw” (k008)

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“The Outlaw” is a 5-page story by Jack Kirby, inked by Dick Ayers, published by Marvel in TWO-GUN KID #55 [1960].  Kirby did western comics as far back as 1939, and memorably did Boys’ Ranch and Bullseye with Joe Simon in the 1950s. He continued to do westerns for Marvel on a fairly regular basis from 1957 to 1964, a lot of Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid stories, but also a few dozen non-series shorts like this one.

“The Outlaw” is a nicely drawn story, about a bank robber who manages to escape from the local sheriff, but the sheriff remains confident. Over the course of the story, the outlaw finds that he can’t do anything with his money for fear of being caught, and is under constant suspicion, being a suspect for rustling cattle and slowly getting to the point that he’s spooked by any movement.

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