Two-Gun Kid #2 (June 1948) Marvel Atlas Golden Age Western Rare Comic VG FREE SH for Sale

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Two-Gun Kid #2 (June 1948) Marvel Atlas Golden Age Western Rare Comic VG FREE SH For Sale

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Two-Gun Kid #2 (June 1948) Marvel Atlas Golden Age Western Rare Comic VG FREE SH:
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Offered for sale is a vintage issue of Two-Gun Kid #2 (June 1948, Marvel / Atlas Comics), which features dynamic cover artwork, and is a scarce to find issue in the series (see bio info below). The comic is "VERY-GOOD" condition (see details above), and is your only chance to score a "key issue" rarely seen on the market. The price is $199.99 + FREE Shipping / Handling ($12.95 Value; US Domestic only), and is the only example offered for sale on ! Overseas buyers please refer below for shipping instructions, and feel free to contact me with further questions.Two Gun Kid(comic book)Two Gun KidPublication informationPublisherTimely Comics
Atlas Comics
Marvel ComicsScheduleBimonthlyFormatOngoing seriesGenreWesternPublication date(Timely)
Mar.1948– Nov.1949
(Marvel)
Nov.1953– Apr.1977No.of issues136Main character(s)Clay Harder
Matt HawkCreative teamWritten byStan LeeArtist(s)Ogden WhitneyPenciller(s)Jack Kirby,Dick AyersInker(s)Dick Ayers,Joe Sinnott

Two Gun Kidis the name of acomic booktitle featuring the characterTwo Gun Kidoriginally published byTimely Comicsbeginning in 1948, byAtlas Comicsfrom 1953 to 1961, and later byMarvel Comics.

Publication history[edit]

The series titledTwo-Gun Kidran in two parts, from 1948 to 1949 and then from 1953 to 1977. Clay Harder debuted inTwo-Gun Kid#1 (March 1948).[1][2]He was Marvel's second continuing Western character, following theMasked Raider, who had appeared inMarvel Comics#1 /Marvel Mystery Comics#2–12 (October 1939 – Octctoer 1940).[3]Two-Gun Kidwas the company's first ongoing Western title,[4]running 10 issues.

Russ Heathsaid in 2004 he believed his first work for Timely was aWesternstory featuring theTwo-Gun Kid.[5]Historians have tentatively identified his first work as either aKid Coltstory in the omnibus seriesWild Western#4 (Nov. 1948); the second Two-Gun Kid story inTwo-Gun Kid#5 (Dec. 1948), "Guns Blast in Thunder Pass;" and the Two-Gun Kid story inWild Western#5 (Dec. 1948), while confirming Heath art on the Kid Colt story that same issue.[6]

Beginning in 1953,Atlas Comicscontinued the originalTwo-Gun Kidseries from issue #11, and then continued with Marvel publishing it untilcover dateApril 1977. The Harder version of the character appeared sporadically through 1962, withJoe Sinnottbeing the last artist to draw the original Two-Gun Kid on a regular basis.

Two-Gun Kid#60 (Nov. 1962) retconned the Clay Harder character out of existence, turning him into adime novelcharacter who had inspired the second Two-Gun Kid, Matt Hawk.Stan LeeandJack Kirby, creators of theFantastic Four, concocted the new Kid to make the character resemble a masked superhero with a secret identity, to stimulate sales for the title.[7]Kirby drew the title for three more issues before passing it off toDick Ayers.[8]

From issue #93 (July 1970) on,Two-Gun Kidwas mostly a reprint title. At one point later in the second series, some of the original Clay Harder Kid adventures were retouched to add a mask and make him look like the Matt Hawk Kid for the reprints.[9][10]Two-Gun Kid story reprints, including many Jack Kirby-drawn stories, also appeared in the 1968–1976 titleThe Mighty Marvel Western.

Ogden Whitneybecame the regular artist for the series from No. 87 to the final issue, No. 92 (May 1967 – March 1968). He wrote and drew the lead story in the mostly reprint revival of the title, in No. 103 (March 1972), andpencileda nine-page backup story, "Invitation to a Gunfight", by writerMarv Wolfman, in the following issue (May 1972), marking his last known comics work.[11]