“Always remember, Tommy--a gun is neither good
nor bad! It depends on who is wearing it! In the hands of the Rawhide Kid, it
is something wonderful!”
That echoing of a
classic line in both the book and film version of Shane gives you the measure of this comic-book character. It’s akin
to your 1950s TV Westerns for kids, or B-Western programmers aimed at the younger
set.
With that said, there
is still something charming about its “squareness.”
Issue #1 gives us two
stories featuring the Kid, including his origin story—Rawhide refers to the
town he’s from and not his apparel. There is also one stand-alone Western
story, and to my surprise a short prose piece.
Again, the target was
youths of a different time, but I still enjoyed this toe in the water to get a
flavor for this character.
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