Rawhide Kid and Wyatt Earp and a Couple of Writers

Here are two Atlas western hero writer's lists--taking up not too much space since there's only one writer on each before Stan Lee takes over (and in fact his Rawhide Kid is the completely new version started with Jack Kirby a couple of years after this one is cancelled). This isn't too surprising; in 1954-58, Joe Gill has ended up the sole Kid Colt writer pre-Lee.

"The Day Marshal Earp Met Annie Oakley" in WE 5 (July/56) guest-stars the Atlas version of Annie from her own comic book--her 1955-56 feature being written solely by Hank Chapman. To bring her a little more in line with the historical Annie and thus further the conceit that this Wyatt Earp comic is "based upon the facts and legends from the career of the amazing life of Wyatt Earp," this is the only time her real name is mentioned.

scripts by Don Rico
in RAWHIDE KID

Mar/55-Sep/57

1-16

all Rawhide Kid scripts

Rawhide Kid script by Rico
in WYATT EARP

Dec/58

20

The Last Outlaw

scripts by Hank Chapman
in WYATT EARP

Nov/55-Feb/58

1-15

all Wyatt Earp scripts

Wyatt Earp script by Chapman
in WILD WESTERN

Jan/56

47

The Lion of Tombstone

Wyatt Earp scripts by Chapman
in GUNSMOKE WESTERN

Jun/56	35	The Terror of Tombstone
Aug/	36	Apaches on the Warpath
Jan/58	44	Apache Trouble

Young Men's C.A. (You've Got Nothing to Lose)

Captain America isn't mentioned on the Who's Who list of Don Rico's work for Atlas, but the features that he did script, like Rawhide Kid and the various jungle ones, contain stories that match the style on the 1950s Cap revival. I've gone back on forth on this for some time, but I'll come down on the side of this being Rico.

The panels are from the Serum to Korea story in CA 77, "The Sioux Strike" in Rawhide Kid 1 (Mar/55), and "While the Jungle Sleeps" in Lorna 17 (Jan/56).

Captain America scripts by Don Rico
in YOUNG MEN

Dec/53	24	Back from the Dead
Feb/54	26	Top Secret
Mar/	26	Captain America Turns Traitor
Apr/	27	Return of the Red Skull
June/	28	The Cargo of Death

in MEN'S ADVENTURES

May/54	27	The Girl Who Was Afraid
July/	28	Kill Captain America!

in CAPTAIN AMERICA

May/54	76	The Betrayers
		Captain America Strikes
		Come to the Commies
July/	77	You Die at Midnight
		The Man with No Face
		[Serum to Korea]
Sep/	78	His Touch Is Death
		The Green Dragon
		The Hour of Doom