I probably had over 75 pieces all told. I’ve since sold all but a dozen pages – keeping the Toth page and the RK kid cover.

The Toth page was a realative bargain – picked it up for $175 about 8 or 9 years ago. Now, that was a lot more than I had spent on a page at that point but it was Toth, and it was early 60s twice up size and a title page, so seemed like a real bargain. I’m sure it would sell for much more today. If you go to my blog and search for Toth, I probably included a picture of it when I wrote about his death.

I bought a ton of Larry Lieber RK pages around the same time – I was buying big lots with an average cost of $15-$20 per page. I sold all of those for a lot more a couple of years ago. Marvel Silver Age pages really appreciated in value.

The cover to RK #90 was pretty cheap for a cover ($450) but it about 10 times what I had spent on anything prior. I had a good bonus that year so I rewarded myself and I love it. It is nicely framed and looks very sharp.

Covers are crazy expensive these days – but you can still find some relatively inexpensive interior art, especially from the 70s from the non-Kirbys of the world.

I have never owned any original pages myself, way too rich for my budget on a modest educator’ s salary.
I did managed to collect an almost full run of RAWHIDE KID from # 40 to 115 (last issue with new story) in mostly VF condition and it’s the pride and joy of my collection. They are about the only stuff i own of early Marvel Silver Age.

In terms of Lieber, I’ve always liked his work on RK. I’ve owned plenty of original pages over the years – and they all looked quite nice (especially when inked by John Tartaglione). I had a page inked by Sal Buscema from #68, and that looked really sharp. I sold most of it over the years, but I’ve held on to the cover to Rawhide Kid #90 – it’s an awesome one co-starting Kid Colt. One of my favourite covers from the entire series, and it looks soooo good in b&w.

One of my top 3 favorite series of Marvel’s Silver Age was RAWHIDE KID.
You make a good point Scott on how dirt cheap the market is on those Marvel western gems.
At the same time RAWHIDE KID # 46 came out, Ditko was in the middle of his AMAZING SPIDER-MAN run (issue # 25), Kirby was still drawing X-MEN (#11), etc. Try finding comics of that era in VF at less that $10!
I own a VF copy of RAWHIDE KID # 46 and I concur on your recommendation.
Not only did Alex Toth did the pencils on that back-up story but he also wrote the story!
Too bad Vinnie Coletta was chosen as inker. He is not suited at all for Toth. Then again, I’m one of those who have a hard time liking anything inked by sloppy Vinnie.
And the main story is not too shabby either: the Kid meets Doc Holliday! Loved that tale.

Seriously, Rawhide Kid is my favorite western series of all time.
They were lots of cool, action packed, fun with a dash of pathos stories in that long run.
Larry Leiber (Stan Lee’s brother) was never a good artist, but he was a good storyteller.
He did his best on RAWHIDE KID, probably because (as he told in an interview), Marvel left him alone to do his thing on westerns. Westerns weren’t high on Stan’s priority list just as Marvel’s line of Superheroes was starting to explode in popularity.

Good column Scott!

I appreciate the positive comments.

I don’t care wWhether people want to agree of disagree with the content of these columns. People should not even feel the need to comment.

If you are going to comment, however, it would be best if it was part of an overall discussion.

One of the great problems with the internet, is that it provides everyone with carte blanche to give glib jokes that usually result in derailing any actual conversation or debate.

If you are going to take them time to log in to make a comment – just try to keep it within the context of the discussion at hand, keeping in mind that there may be typos, or grammatical slip ups or even some misinformation, as I really only have time to type like a madman for 15 minutes and add a few photos.

Thanks

To Joe – I’m glad I’ve help get you back into old comics. There is a lot of great stuff out there. Sadly, I’ve been a net seller in recent years – but I’ll be back into the swing of things once I get my home finanances under control.

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I’m the first guy to appreciate a pun, even a bad one, but don’t let the dominance of those posts get you down. There’s plenty of us out here who value your work. We just need to pipe up more often.

Best,
Joe

2 of the 12 comments focus on the same typo?

Are you serious?

Listen, I crank these out on a weekly basis while dealing with a full time job as general legal counsel at one of Canada’s top investment firms, raise two kids under the age of 4 and run my own blog. I try to come up with an new and interesting topic each and every week, hoping that we can all find out a bit more to love about pre-Crisis comics.

If you are going to go out of your way to make a lame joke about a typo; I wish you’d do it elsewhere.

To all others – I continue to enjoy and appreciate your comments on the editorial content and whatever you have to add to the discussion.

Do you mean Eva Braun or Evan Bourne?

Yeah, but didn’t Marvel usually edit out a page or a hand full of panels to make them fit? I recall several reprint books that cut out some full page splash panels, specifically from Kirby FF’s and Ditko’s SM.

Great comic. Thanks for the recommendations, Scott! I’ll go look for that Rawhide Kid…

J.A.P.