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WHAT IF MARVEL MASTERWORKED THEIR GOLD AND SILVER AGE WESTERN COMICS? For decades, stretching from the 30s through the 70s, the Western comics genre stood proud against all others. All the elements that made super-hero comics such a fan favorite were intact in these books, except without the super-powers. But against the backdrop of the American West and its deserts and prairies, the heroes called cowboys rode tall in the saddle, and their exploits were no less artistically worthy of Masterworks than their brethren with capes and laser beams. Marvel produced a legendary trio of pistol-packing cowboys, with Rawhide Kid, Two-Gun Kid, and Kid-Colt, Outlaw leading the way. They each had their start in the Marvel-50s, and sure seemed like a good proposition for a comics company finding its way out of the Wertham hearings. These cowboys were certainly a good antidote to the zombies and noir pulp that caused so much grief for publishing companies. Creators like Stan Lee, Joe Maneely and Dick Ayers set the tone for Marvel cowboys, and when the Fantastic Four burst on the scene in late 1961, Jack Kirby had already provided his considerable artistic flair to the mainline western titles for several years- and he would continue to do so right in the midst of Marvel's super-hero revival! There were many other worthy Western titles besides the "Big Three", which you'll get a chance to understand as this page evolves and more maps are put online. Perhaps your favorite "dark horse" candidate is mapped on this page. Will we one day see a Ghost Rider Masterworks? Or Gunsmoke Western? Maybe one of Marvel's Native American titles like Apache Kid or Red Warrior? (Or how about that Annie Oakley? Va-va-voom!) OK, Western-lovers, I hope you dig this part of MarvelMasterworks.com! This page is still under construction, so check back often to see when the next batch of maps have been uploaded. -- by Gormuu NOTE FROM CHRIS: The maps on this page have been compiled from many various sources, but as you will notice, there are still quite a few issues without data. If you own any of these issues with missing data, any information you can supply would be greatly appreciated by all visitors to this site. I'd love to get accurate story titles and page counts for these issues. (And if you can supply an artist credit or two, that would be the icing on the cake!) If you can help, please e-mail CLEAZER72@YAHOO.COM) _______________________________ GENERAL MAP OUTLINES: (For more detailed maps, click the individual volume links at the list on the right.) Annie Oakley Vol. 1: #1-11 Apache Kid Vol. 1: #53, 2-10 Vol. 2: #11-19, Western Gunfighters #20 Arizona Kid Vol. 1: #1-6, True Western #1-2, 3-D Tales Of The West #1 Cowboy Romances Vol. 1: Cowboy Romances #1-3, Blaze The Wonder Collie #2-3, Rangeland Love #1-2, Cowgirl Romances #28 Vol. 2: Western Life Romances #1-2, Romances Of The West #1-2, Romantic Affairs #3, Reno Browne, Hollywood's Greatest Cowgirl #50-52 Frontier Western Vol. 1: #1-10 Ghost Rider Vol. 1: #1-7, Western Gunfighters #1-7 Gunhawk Vol. 1: Blaze Carson #1-5, Rex Hart #6-8, Whip Wilson #9 Vol. 2: Whip Wilson #10-11, Gunhawk #12-18 Gunsmoke Western Vol. 1: All Western Winners #2-4, Western Winners #5-7, Black Rider #8-11 Vol. 2: Black Rider #12-21 Vol. 3: Black Rider #22-27, Western Tales of the Black Rider #28-31, Gunsmoke Western #32 Vol. 4: Gunsmoke Western #33-43, Black Rider #1 Vol. 5: #44-54 Vol. 6: #55-65 Vol. 7: #66-77 Kid Colt, Outlaw Vol. 1: #1-10 Vol. 2: #11-20 Vol. 3: #21-30 Vol. 4: #31-40 Vol. 5: #41-50 Vol. 6: #51-60 Vol. 7: #61-70 Vol. 8: #71-80 Vol. 9: #81-90 Vol. 10: #91-100 Vol. 11: #101-110 Vol. 12: #111-120 Vol. 13: #121-131 Vol. 14: #132-229 Matt Slade, Gunfighter Vol. 1: #1-4, Kid Slade, Gunfighter #5-8 Outlaw Kid Vol. 1: #1-10 Vol. 1: #11-19 Vol. 1: #1-30 Quick Trigger Western Vol. 1: Western Thriller #1-4, Cowboy Action #5-10 Vol. 2: Cowboy Action #11, QTW #12-19 Atlas Era Rawhide Kid Vol. 1: #1-8 Vol. 2: #9-16 Rawhide Kid Vol. 1: #17-26 Vol. 2: #27-36 Vol. 3: #37-46 Vol. 4: #47-58 Vol. 5: #59-69 Vol. 6: #70-80 Vol. 7: #81-99 Vol. 8: #100-115, Western Team-Up #1, reprint covers Red Warrior/Arrowhead Vol. 1: Red Warrior #1-6, Arrowhead #1-4 Ringo Kid Western Vol. 1: #1-12 Vol. 2: #13-21, #1-30, Western Trails #1-2 Six-Gun Western Vol. 1: Outlaw Fighters #1-5, Six-Gun Western #1-4, Kid From Dodge City #1-2, Kid From Texas #1-2 Texas Kid Vol. 1: #1-10 Tex Morgan Vol. 1: #1-9 Tex Taylor Vol. 1: #1-9 Two-Gun Kid Vol. 1: #1-10 Vol. 2: #11-20 Vol. 3: #21-30 Vol. 4: #31-40 Vol. 5: #41-50 Vol. 6: #51-59 Vol. 7: #60-70 Vol. 8: #71-83 Vol. 9: #84-136 Two-Gun Western Vol. 1: #5-14 Vol. 2: Billy Buckskin #1-3, Two-Gun Western #4-12 Western Gunfighters Vol. 1: Western Gunfighters (1956) #20 - #27, Western Gunfighters (1970) #1 - #33 Western Kid Vol. 1: #1-9 Vol. 2: #10-17, #1-5 Western Outlaws Vol. 1: #1-11 Vol. 2: #12-21 Western Outlaws & Sheriffs Vol. 1: Best Western #58-59, WOAS #60-65 Vol. 2: #66-73 Wild Western Vol. 1: #1-10 Vol. 2: #11-20 Vol. 3: #21-30 Vol. 4: #31-39 Vol. 5: #40-48 Vol. 6: #49-57 Wyatt Earp Vol. 1: #1-10 Vol. 2: #11-20 Vol. 2: #21-29 You are visitor #
	Annie Oakley	Apache Kid	Arizona Kid
	Vol. 1	Vol. 1 Vol. 2	Vol. 1
	Cowboy Romances	Frontier Western	Ghost Rider
	Vol. 1 Vol. 2	Vol. 1	Vol. 1
	Gunhawk	Gunsmoke Western	Kid Colt, Outlaw
	Vol. 1 Vol. 2	Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4 Vol. 5 Vol. 6 Vol. 7	Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4 Vol. 5 Vol. 6 Vol. 7
	Kid Colt, Outlaw	Matt Slade, Gunfighter	Outlaw Kid
	Vol. 8 Vol. 9 Vol. 10 Vol. 11 Vol. 12 Vol. 13 Vol. 14	Vol. 1	Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3
	Quick Trigger Western	Rawhide Kid	Red Warrior/ Arrowhead
	Vol. 1 Vol. 2	ATLAS ERA Vol. 1 Vol. 2 MARVEL AGE Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4 Vol. 5 Vol. 6 Vol. 7 Vol. 8	Vol. 1
	Ringo Kid	Six-Gun Western	Tex Morgan
	Vol. 1 Vol. 2	Vol. 1	Vol. 1 Vol. 2
	Tex Taylor	Texas Kid	Two-Gun Kid
	Vol. 1	Vol. 1	Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4 Vol. 5 Vol. 6 Vol. 7 Vol. 8 Vol. 9
	Two-Gun Western	Western Kid	Western Outlaws/ Western Gunfighters
	Vol. 1 Vol. 2	Vol. 1 Vol. 2	West. Gunfighters Vol. 1 West. Outlaws Vol. 1 West. Outlaws Vol. 2
	Western Outlaws & Sheriffs	Wild Western	Wyatt Earp
	Vol. 1 Vol. 2	Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4 Vol. 5 Vol. 6	Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3

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