{"id":487,"date":"2005-09-14T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/09\/14\/rawhide-kid-134\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T23:08:00","slug":"rawhide-kid-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/487","title":{"rendered":"Rawhide Kid #134 [1976]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Kirby\/Ayers stories and one cover reprinted from 1962 in this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The cover and lead story are from RAWHIDE KID #30. &#8220;When the Kid Went Wild&#8221; features a favourite plot device of comics of that era, the hypnotist (there were a lot in the super-hero books). The hypnotist in question is Spade Desmond, who comes to town and uses his powers to get free drinks and embarrass people. When the guns come out he&#8217;s too distracted to use his powers, so the Kid helps him out. Desmond is pretty ungrateful, though, and decides to bring the Kid under his powers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/09\/Rawhide-Kid-134-1976.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3091\" alt=\"Rawhide Kid #134 [1976]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/09\/Rawhide-Kid-134-1976-693x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/09\/Rawhide-Kid-134-1976-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/09\/Rawhide-Kid-134-1976-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/09\/Rawhide-Kid-134-1976-624x921.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/09\/Rawhide-Kid-134-1976.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love that middle panel. Those Kirby extreme close-ups are always fun, and this one especially so. He uses the Kid&#8217;s reputation to do some robbing, until finally he tries to force the Kid to cross the one line he refuses to.<\/p>\n<p>The other two stories are from RAWHIDE KID #27, &#8220;The Man Who Caught the Kid&#8221; and &#8220;The Girl, The Gunmen, and the Apaches&#8221;, which I talked about from a <a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/284\">prior reprint<\/a>. A good variety of the types of adventures the Kid encounters in this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Kirby\/Ayers stories and one cover reprinted from 1962 in this issue. The cover and lead story are from RAWHIDE KID #30. &#8220;When the Kid Went Wild&#8221; features a favourite plot device of comics of that era, the hypnotist (there were a lot in the super-hero books). The hypnotist in question is Spade Desmond, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-487","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\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}