#Kid Colt

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Kid Colt

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The Avengers and Immortus meet the old Atlas western heroes by George Pérez

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A Marvel Masterwork Pin-Up by Gil Kane from Kid Colt Outlaw No. 221, December 1977.

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Gil Kane Western Gunfighters #31 "Kid Colt" Cover Original Art (Marvel Comics, 1975)

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[wanderingmind867]

DC and Marvel both had lots of Western stars. I just finished reading JLA #198-199, so I know a lot of these characters. Jonah Hex, Cinnamon, Scalphunter and Bat Lash. Meanwhile Marvel had at least three big cowboys: Kid Colt, Two-Gun Kid and the Rawhide Kid. Westerns aren't really my thing, and neither are war comics. But i respect the characters created for the genre. And Bat Lash seems the most tolerable of all of them (probably because he's comedic). But yeah, I like the characters of these comic genres. I just prefer when they show up in crossovers with other characters.

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Original Art - Kid Colt Outlaw #141 Pg 08 (1969) by Ogden Whitney

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The Kid helps Sheriff Barton capture a gang run by Nancy's corrupt saloon owner uncle, Jack Steele, in this final page from the tale, "Tombstone Take-Over," illustrated by Ogden Whitney.

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Gwen Lou Sabuki: Sabuki was a member of the original (junior) Invaders (the Kid Commandos) crew, along with Bucky Barnes and Toro. She has 6 total appearances, the most recent of which was in a flashback, back during the Original Sins event, in which she prevented the U.S. Military and the original Invaders from wiping out Japan with an artificial tsunami.

Blaine "Kid" Colt:

I WILL DEFEND COLT WITH MY LIFE

Ok, I know that nobody reads the Marvel Westerns except me (the vast majority of comments I see on comics sites about them are some variant of “I’m just reading this for completion’s sake”) but Kid Colt is the reason I actually sat up and paid attention to the 1940s-50s Westerns. He’s been through several new origins, and all of them are superficially similar to the first origin we saw laid out in his debut (Kid Colt, Hero of the West #1) but they ALL miss the POINT of the character.

In the first year and a half or so since his debut in 1948, Colt was written by a specific author, Ernie Hart, and he establishes over and over again that Kid Colt is, a violent, traumatized young man who has chosen the life of an outlaw and has no regrets about any of his decisions.

In the first Colt story, we learn that he’s very skilled with a gun, but chooses not to wear guns because he knows his temper means that he would probably draw and kill someone if he had them on him. He endures the ridicule of the other townspeople and even his own father, who doesn’t know his reasons for refusing to wear a gun. But his father is murdered by law enforcement to steal his land and cattle, and Colt is framed for it. He takes matters into his own hands, kills the lawmen (beating one of them to death with his own whip in the process), and leaves town.

For the next eight issues, and the other Western titles he appears in at the time, Kid Colt rides alone for the most part, but consistently goes out of his way to help other outlaws who need it, and affirms over and over again that being a criminal does not make you any less human or deserving of dignity- but he is merciless with lawmen and judges and sheriffs who abuse their power. Sure, he is sometimes lonely, and once or twice considers settling down, but ultimately embraces his new life as an outlaw, and enjoys the freedom it affords him.

The only times in the Hart run, iirc, he considers settling down is with an entire community of people who show him love and concern (particularly, and notably, there's a young man who tends him back to health, though this ends in tragedy). Colt also has no problem getting help from people because he is a charismatic, kind man- he very rarely finds himself in a position where he can’t get help from a local (unlike, say, Rawhide, who is perpetually a target but that’s a post for another day) But regardless, Colt is popular with ladies, but settling down with a woman for love is something that he can never do, and he says as much more than once. There are several ways to interpret this, but this aspect is another one that vanishes when Hart stops writing Kid Colt.

1950, the year Hart stops writing Colt for whatever reason, is around when the Comics Code Authority really started to get some teeth. You can even read letters in the actual comic itself in the lead up to 1950 put in by the publishers talking about the ongoing debate about the moral content of comics, and one of the first things the new writer does (Leon Lazarus) is revamp Colt’s backstory. On the surface, it’s mostly faithful - but it changes the fact that Colt kills both the Sheriff and his deputy to one shooting the other and Colt accidentally knocking the Sheriff off the cliff. The textbox epilogue says he was “accused” of murdering lawmen, implying innocence. But it also completely removes the rage element from his backstory- in this version, Colt doesn’t carry a gun because he doesn’t want his skill to draw in a bunch of gunhawks, claiming he had a brother (who had never been mentioned before, of course) who got shot in the back because of his skill with a gun.

Needless to say, these two changes remove the most compelling things about the character. Crucially, unlike a lot of other Western heroes who find themselves in this predicament, Colt as written by Ernie Hart has no interest in proving his innocence. Colt becomes an outlaw because he sees no other way forward- but he never looks back. He honestly does not believe he did anything wrong and has no interest in justifying himself to the world. But under Lazarus, and pretty much all the later writers, suddenly he hates being an outlaw, and wishes he could prove his innocence, except it’s impossible. He pines after women he meets once. He is suddenly respectful to lawmen and judges and won’t raise a gun against them even to save his life or the life of another. He says shit like “I might be an outlaw but I don’t act like one.” They might as well have just made a completely different person.

Don't get me wrong, there’s some good stories that show flashes of who Colt was in the beginning, but most of the life is leeched out of him, and this is definitely true in all the modern versions of Colt that we have. In The Sensational Seven, Colt is for some reason turned into a boorish douchebag who only thinks about sex. DeFalco’s Kid Colt oneshot, in addition to having a lot of Confederate apologism, goes with the blandest, most toothless version of Kid Colt possible, and that asinine “Moving On” oneshot by Tony Isabella in Marvel 1001 is just. It’s not any sort of a satisfying completion for his character arc, and there's untapped ground withi

Anyway, I know this is more than you ever wanted to know about cowboys, especially Kid Colt, but I lov him so much please....

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The Mighty Marvel Western 3 cover by Jack Kirby

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I've got to scan this one some time, but since it's in a frame stuck to my wall rn, this is close enough.

Kid Colt and Rawhide Kid, my boys. On their team ups they've talked about how maybe they could be partners more permanently, so I did this as a cover for a fictional duo comic for the two. I threw in their shared love of milk too, ofc

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I've been playing lego marvel superheroes 2 and there are cowboys! I love cowboys 🤠 yeehaw!

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Don Marquez

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https://www.etsy.com/.../giant-size-kid-colt-vol-1-3... FN Giant-Size Kid Colt 3, regularly $35.00, on sale through the link until midnight tonight for $31.50

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Kid Colt One-Shot #1, dated September 2009. Cover by Luke Ross and Morry Hollowell.

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Kid Colt, the Ringo Kid and the Rawhide Kid by Herb Trimpe

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