Rawhide Kid #1 for Sale - First Appearance of Rawhide Kid - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 1955 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: March 1955
Key date: 1955-03-00
Indicia publisher: Cornell Publishing Corp.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Rawhide Kid - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Johnny Bart - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Joe Maneely; inks: Joe Maneely; colors: Stan Goldberg	Johnny Bart First, Rawhide Kid First
1	The Coming of the Rawhide Kid	comic story	6	script: Don Rico; pencils: Joe Maneely, Bob Brown; inks: Joe Maneely, Bob Brown	Rawhide Kid I (first appearance); Randy Clayton (first appearance; the Kid's sidekick)
2	The Menace of White Face!	comic story	6	script: Don Rico; pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown
3	Wrong Man	text story	2	pencils: ? (illustration); inks: ? (illustration); letters: typeset
4	The Death of Wyatt Earp!	comic story	5	pencils: Bob Forgione; inks: Bob Forgione	Wyatt Earp
5	The Sioux Attack!	comic story	6	script: Don Rico; pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown

Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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