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Rawhide Kid v2 #1-4

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RAWHIDE KID v2 #1 (August, 1985)
By Bill Mantlo, Herb Trimpe & John Severin

APPEARANCES:
Rawhide Kid (also in fb & rfb), Ben Bart (in rfb), Hawk Brown (in rfb), Spade (in rfb), Tim McCain (in fb), Sam (Laramie Sheriff), Nightwind (Rawhide Kid’s horse), Jeff Packard (Rawhide Kid’s “understudy”)

FLASHBACKS:
Johnny Bart (Rawhide Kid)’s uncle, Ben Bart, a former Texas Ranger, teaches Johnny how to shoot. One day, Hawk Brown and Spade decide to make a name for themselves by outdrawing a Texas Ranger. They kill Ben Bart and tell people about it in town. Johnny Bart finds them in town, shoots the guns out of their hands and has them arrested (Rawhide Kid’s origin, repeated from an issue of Rawhide Kid). The Rawhide Kid shoots and kills Tim McCain in self-defense (1872).
SYNOPSIS:
1897: An aged Rawhide Kid rides in to Laramie, Wyoming but is quickly recognized by a young railroad worker. Several railroad workers starts a fight with him so they can say they fought a living legend of the Wild West. Rawhide Kid fights them off and his old friend Sam, now the Laramie Sheriff, lets him stay in the jail (unlocked) to avoid more fights. The young worker feels bad about getting the Kid arrested, so he breaks him out of jail. Word of the Kid’s breakout spreads fast and a gunfight breaks out in the street. Rawhide Kid fights them off and escapes and makes his way to the local cemetery so he can apologize to Tim McCain, who he killed in self-defense 25 years ago. The young worker decides to become the Kid’s understudy.

NOTE:
I doubt Tim McCain or Sheriff Sam has appeared before.

Rawhide Kid now has false teeth and arthritis.

Jeff Packard is named next issue.

RAWHIDE KID v2 #2 (September, 1985)
By Bill Mantlo, Herb Trimpe & Gerry Talaoc

APPEARANCES:
Rawhide Kid, Nightwind, Jeff Packard, Miller, Niles Mayberry (prev 2 Pinkerton agents from Chicago), “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Grey Bear (chief of the Oglala Sioux), Ned Buntline (writer who bought the rights to Rawhide Kid’s name), Annie Oakley

FLASHBACKS:

SYNOPSIS:
Rawhide Kid and Jeff Packard get on a train, but two Pinkerton agents try to arrest Jeff. The Kid and Packard escape and get off the train with their horses and Jeff explains that he’s wanted in Chicago for murder; he accidentally killed his boss after his boss slept with his sister. They spend the night in an abandoned building only to be woken by charging Indians. They quickly discover it’s really Buffalo Bill practicing for his show, and Bill quickly hires the Rawhide Kid. Rawhide Kid performs in his first show and Packard notices the Pinkertons in the crowd. Afterwards, the Kid runs into his old friend Grey Bear, but is alarmed to see he’s now an old drunk. The Kid then notices Ned Buntline, the guy who bought the rights to his name to write stories about him, and confronts him on the debt Ned hasn’t paid him. Ned settles up. Rawhide Kid then runs into Annie Oakley and the two make plans to catch up on old times (if you know what I mean… *wink wink, nudge nudge*), but Packard comes running through with the Pinkertons on his tail. Rawhide Kid helps him escape and the two leave Bill’s show.

NOTE:
It seems like Grey Bear is the Marvel Universe version of Luther Standing Bear, the real life Oglala Sioux guy who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, but the real guy didn’t join until 1902; this is still set in 1897.

Mayberry’s first name is revealed next issue.

RAWHIDE KID v2 #3 (October, 1985)
By Bill Mantlo, Herb Trimpe & Gerry Talaoc

APPEARANCES:
Rawhide Kid, Nightwind, Jeff Packard (also in fb), Niles Mayberry, Miller, a Bounty Hunter, the Klu Klux Klan

FLASHBACKS:
Jeff Packard accidentally kills his boss in Chicago (Packard’s origin). Emancipation was a town established after the Civil War for freed slaves. When oil was struck in Emancipation, the Klu Klux Klan stormed the town and killed all of the men (a few days or a week ago).
SYNOPSIS:
The Pinkerton agents hire a bounty hunter to get Jeff Packard and the Rawhide Kid. Meanwhile, the Rawhide Kid teaches Jeff Packard how to shoot. That night, the Pinkertons and the bounty hunter ambush them. Jeff and the Kid escape and the bounty hunter follows them by himself. Rawhide Kid and Jeff comes across the town Emancipation, but there are dead bodies all over the place. They learn the town’s history and the Kid decides to wait in the town until the Klan comes back. The bounty hunter arrives just before the Klan does. Rawhide Kid points out that the bounty will have to wait; the Klan will kill the bounty hunter as well because he’s black. They kill all the Klan members and the bounty hunter decides to stay behind and protect the town’s surviving women and children. He thanks the Kid by not killing him.

RAWHIDE KID v2 #4 (November, 1985)
By Bill Mantlo, Herb Trimpe & Dan Bulanadi

APPEARANCES:
Rawhide Kid, Nightwind, Jeff Packard, different Pinkerton agents

FLASHBACK:
The Rawhide Kid wins a gunfight by shooting his opponent in the feet.
SYNOPSIS:
After waking from a nightmare, Rawhide Kid and Jeff Packard ride into a new town. Rawhide Kid gives a beggar a nickle and learns he was in a gunfight with him years ago; the fight cost the beggar his legs. A woman runs out of a saloon and tells the Kid that six Pinkerton agents waiting for them. Rawhide Kid fails to talk Packard into running out of town, and Jeff dies in a gunfight with the Pinkertons. As the Kid hallucinates all of his old dead friends and enemies, he guns down the Pinkterons. Rawhide Kid picks up Packard’s corpse and rides out of town.

Placement suggestions:

BUNTLINE, NED
RK2 2

CODY, WILLIAM "BUFFALO BILL"
BOG 1
*{RK2 2}

GREY BEAR
RK2 2

NIGHTWIND

A 143
*RK2 1
*RK2 2
*RK2 3
*RK2 4

OAKLEY, ANNIE

RK4 4
*{RK2 2}

PACKARD, JEFF
RK2 3-FB
{RK2 1}
RK2 2
RK2 3
RK2 4

RAWHIDE KID/JOHNNY CLAY/JOHNNY BART
RK4 3-FB
RK3 4-FB
[this is where Rawhide Kid's origin story goes]
{KID COLT OUTLAW 201}
*RK2 1-FB
AVF 4

TCORPS 3
*RK2 4-FB
RK3 1

APACHE 4
*RK2 1 (remove brackets)
*RK2 2 (remove brackets)
*RK2 3 (remove brackets)
*RK2 4 (remove brackets)
**[RK2 5] (delete, there is no fifth issue)
-Daron Jensen
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