Kid Colt Outlaw #7 (c.1953, Thorpe & Porter / Atlas Reprint) — VG/FN 5.0
68-Page British Squarebound Edition — Early Atlas Western Featuring Syd Shores Cover
A scarce UK “1/-” edition reprinting Kid Colt Outlaw #24 (Jan. 1953) in an oversized, square-bound 68-page format. Distributed by Strato Publications for the British market, these imports were printed in far smaller numbers than their U.S. counterparts — and survival rates are notoriously low due to cheap pulp stock and glued binding.
Cover art by Syd Shores, with interior stories by Pete Tumlinson, Leon Lazarus, George Tuska, Sol Brodsky, Mike Sekowsky, Ed Moline, and others — making this a concentrated dose of early-1950s Atlas Western talent.
📚 Contents
Cover: Syd Shores — Kid Colt breaks up a frontier execution in a classic mid-action pistol draw.
“Terror in Tombstone” — Tumlinson
“War Drums in the West!” — Brodsky / Burgos
“The Outlaw!” — George Tuska
“The Hangman of Hutch Hill!” — Ed Moline
“The Mask of Salazar” — Mike Suchorsky
“Two-Gun Justice” (text story w/ Sekowsky spot illus)
“Handout Heaven” — Gerald McCann
“Two Lives for Yancey” — Al Eadeh
“The Man with the Padlocked Pockets” — Paul Reinman
“Saddle Scraps” — 1-page western humor
Historical Features: The Mud Wagon 1850–1900 / The Concord Coach
📝 Maj. Picto’s Grading Notes
VG/FN (5.0) — Structurally solid squarebound with light spine wear and stress lines, mild edge wear, and small cover creases. Good color retention, tight interior, no page detachment. Back cover shows expected toning and handling for a British-market Atlas book. Fully complete, no pieces out. Above-average copy for this notoriously fragile format.
Kid Colt Outlaw #7 (c.1953, Thorpe & Porter / Atlas Reprint) — VG/FN 5.0
68-Page British Squarebound Edition — Early Atlas Western Featuring Syd Shores Cover
A scarce UK “1/-” edition reprinting Kid Colt Outlaw #24 (Jan. 1953) in an oversized, square-bound 68-page format. Distributed by Strato Publications for the British market, these imports were printed in far smaller numbers than their U.S. counterparts — and survival rates are notoriously low due to cheap pulp stock and glued binding.
Cover art by Syd Shores, with interior stories by Pete Tumlinson, Leon Lazarus, George Tuska, Sol Brodsky, Mike Sekowsky, Ed Moline, and others — making this a concentrated dose of early-1950s Atlas Western talent.
📚 Contents
Cover: Syd Shores — Kid Colt breaks up a frontier execution in a classic mid-action pistol draw.
“Terror in Tombstone” — Tumlinson
“War Drums in the West!” — Brodsky / Burgos
“The Outlaw!” — George Tuska
“The Hangman of Hutch Hill!” — Ed Moline
“The Mask of Salazar” — Mike Suchorsky
“Two-Gun Justice” (text story w/ Sekowsky spot illus)
“Handout Heaven” — Gerald McCann
“Two Lives for Yancey” — Al Eadeh
“The Man with the Padlocked Pockets” — Paul Reinman
“Saddle Scraps” — 1-page western humor
Historical Features: The Mud Wagon 1850–1900 / The Concord Coach
📝 Maj. Picto’s Grading Notes
VG/FN (5.0) — Structurally solid squarebound with light spine wear and stress lines, mild edge wear, and small cover creases. Good color retention, tight interior, no page detachment. Back cover shows expected toning and handling for a British-market Atlas book. Fully complete, no pieces out. Above-average copy for this notoriously fragile format.
