{"id":1211,"date":"2007-04-01T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1211"},"modified":"2007-04-01T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:05:07","slug":"the-mighty-marvel-western-25-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1211","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Marvel Western #25 [1973]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This issue has a reprint of the 7-page Kirby\/Ayers story &#8220;Trapped by the Bounty Hunter&#8221;.  RAWHIDE KID #26 [1962].  The Kid is nervous around town, knowing a bounty hunter is after him but not knowing who it is.  Leaving town, he falls for the oldest trick in the book, an hombre pretendin&#8217; to be thirsty for some water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1210\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2007\/03\/MightyMrvlWesternThe251973.jpg\" alt=\"MightyMrvlWesternThe251973.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While taking him in, the bounty hunter gets ambushed by some outlaws.  The Kid of course won&#8217;t let them kill the hunter in cold blood, and saves his captor, earning his freedom and a promise that the bounty hunter will quit his job.<\/p>\n<p>The Kid sure did end up making a lot of friends in his time on the run.  You&#8217;d figure a couple of them might have been able to help him clear his name or something.  Anyway, nice little story with some good western gunplay.<\/p>\n<p>The Kirby\/Ayers cover to this issue is also from RAWHIDE KID #26.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This issue has a reprint of the 7-page Kirby\/Ayers story &#8220;Trapped by the Bounty Hunter&#8221;. RAWHIDE KID #26 [1962]. The Kid is nervous around town, knowing a bounty hunter is after him but not knowing who it is. Leaving town, he falls for the oldest trick in the book, an hombre pretendin&#8217; to be thirsty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-western"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}