Seen In: Rawhide Kid #1-135, 1955-1979; two post-2000 miniseries. Quote: "You kids are such gossips, aren't you? Okay, here's the rundown: I'm faster than Kid Colt, the Two-Gun Kid, Apache Kid and Kid Shaleen. Also faster than Wyatt Earp who is soooo overrated and rude it makes me crazy to talk about it... As far as the Lone Ranger, all I can say is, I don't care which one of us is faster, I just want to meet him. I think that the mask and the powder blue outfit are fantastic. I can certainly see why that Indian follows him around." Companies like Marvel always have those hoarder IPs, those nearly useless properties that they just cant seem to throw away because hey, they might use them someday. From 1980-2000, the Rawhide Kid was one of those: a fairly dull young gunslinger, sort of a Disneyfied Billy the Kid, from the days when Western comics were as big as superheroes are now. Then Marvel decided to court controversy and score some good PR points by turning the Kid gay. The problem is, this was the only change it made, and hes a typical Western gunslinger ONLY GAYYYYYY! is a routine that, at best, gets old real fast.
T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.
