Editing Rawhide Kid (section)

===Marvel Comics===
After a hiatus, the Rawhide Kid was rebooted for what was now [[Marvel Comics]] by writer [[Stan Lee]], [[penciler]] [[Jack Kirby]] and [[inker]] [[Dick Ayers]]. Continuing the Atlas numbering with issue #17 (Aug. 1960),<ref name="uhmcc1955">{{Cite web |title=Rawhide Kid (I) (1955–1979) |url=http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/datafr.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026083235/http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/datafr.htm |archive-date=2017-10-26 |website=The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators}}</ref><ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/1458/ ''Rawhide Kid, The'' (Marvel, 1960 Series)] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]. "The" as per [[copyright]]ed title in postal [[Indicia (philately)|indicia]], no "The" on cover-logo [[trademark]].</ref> the title now featured a diminutive yet confident, soft-spoken fast gun constantly underestimated by bullying toughs, varmints, owlhoots, polecats, crooked saloon owners and other archetypes squeezed through the prism of Lee and Kirby's anarchic imagination.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brevoort |first1=Tom |last2=DeFalco |first2=Tom |last3=Manning |first3=Matthew K. |last4=Sanderson |first4=Peter |last5=Wiacek |first5=Win |title=Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History |date=2017 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1465455505 |page=78}}</ref> As in the outsized, exuberantly exaggerated action of the later-to-come [[World War II]] series ''[[Nick Fury|Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos]]'', ''The Rawhide Kid'' was now a freewheeling romp of energetic, almost slapstick action across cattle ranches, horse troughs, corrals, canyons and swinging chandeliers. Stringently moral, the Kid nevertheless showed a gleeful pride in his shooting and his acrobatic fight skills — never picking arguments, but constantly forced to surprise lummoxes far bigger than he was.

Through [[retcon]], aspects of the Atlas and Silver Age characters' history meshed, so that the unnamed infant son of settlers the Clay family, orphaned by a [[Cheyenne]] raid, was raised by [[Texas Ranger Division|Texas Ranger]] Ben Bart on a ranch near Rawhide, Texas. Older brother Frank Clay, captured by Native Americans, eventually escaped and became a [[Gambling|gambler]], while eldest brother Joe Clay became sheriff of the town of Willow Flats; neither were in the regular cast, and each died in a guest appearance.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} Shortly after Johnny's 18th birthday, Ben Bart was murdered; Johnny, an almost preternaturally fast and accurate gunman, wounded the killers and left them to be taken into custody. A later misunderstanding between the Kid and a sheriff over a cattle rustler that the Kid wounded in self-defense led to the hero's life as a fugitive.

Rawhide Kid's full name was revealed in issue # 60 in the Letter's Column as John Barton Clay. ''The Rawhide Kid'' ended publication with issue #151 (May 1979).

The Rawhide Kid later appeared as a middle-aged character in a four-issue [[miniseries]], ''The Rawhide Kid'' (vol. 2) (Aug.-Nov. 1985), by writer [[Bill Mantlo]] and [[penciler]] [[Herb Trimpe]].<ref>[http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/rawhide2.htm#S1084 ''Rawhide Kid'' (II) (1985)] at The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators</ref><ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/3040/ ''Rawhide Kid'' (Marvel, 1985 Series)] at the Grand Comics Database. "The" as per cover-logo [[trademark]]; no "The" in [[copyright]]ed title in postal indicia.</ref>

====2000s treatments====
The Rawhide Kid reappeared in the four-issue [[miniseries]] ''[[Blaze of Glory (comics)|Blaze of Glory]]'' (Feb.-March 2000; published biweekly), by writer [[John Ostrander]] and [[artist]] [[Leonardo Manco]],<ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/6294/ ''Blaze of Glory''] at the Grand Comics Database</ref> and a 2002 four-issue sequel, ''[[Apache Skies]]'', by the same creative team.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/10154/ ''Apache Skies'' ] at the Grand Comics Database</ref>

In contrast to the character's previously depicted appearance — a small-statured, clean-cut redhead — these latter two series depicted him with shoulder-length dark hair, and wearing a slightly less stylized, more historically appropriate outfit than his classic one.

A five-issue miniseries, ''Rawhide Kid''<!--No "The" per following two sources--> (vol. 3) (April–June 2003), titled "Slap Leather"<ref>[http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/rawhide2.htm#S3632 ''Rawhide Kid'' (III) (2003)] at The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators</ref><ref name=gcd2003>[http://www.comics.org/series/13908/ ''Rawhide Kid'' (Marvel, MAX imprint, 2003 Series)] at the Grand Comics Database</ref> was published biweekly by Marvel's mature-audience [[MAX (comics)|MAX]] [[Imprint (trade name)|imprint]]. Here, the character was depicted as [[homosexual]], with a good portion of the dialogue dedicated to innuendo to this effect.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brevoort |first1=Tom |last2=DeFalco |first2=Tom |last3=Manning |first3=Matthew K. |last4=Sanderson |first4=Peter |last5=Wiacek |first5=Win |title=Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History |date=2017 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1465455505 |page=60}}</ref>

A sequel miniseries, ''The Rawhide Kid'' (vol. 4) (Aug.-Nov. 2010),<ref>[http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/rawhide2.htm#S3628 ''The Rawhide Kid'' (IV)] at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators. "The" as per [[copyright]]ed title in postal indicia, no "The" on cover-logo [[trademark]].</ref> rendered with a subtitle on covers as ''Rawhide Kid: The Sensational Seven'',<ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/49642/covers/?style=default ''Rawhide Kid, The'' (Marvel, 2010)] covers at the Grand Comics Database</ref> found the Kid and his posse (consisting of [[Kid Colt]], [[Doc Holliday]], [[Annie Oakley]], [[Billy the Kid]], [[Red Wolf (comics)|Red Wolf]] and the [[Two-Gun Kid]]) track the villainous Cristo Pike after Pike and his gang kidnap [[Wyatt Earp|Wyatt]] and [[Morgan Earp]].<ref>McElhatton, Greg. [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=2327 ''Rawhide Kid: The Sensational Seven''] [[Comic Book Resources]]; June 11, 2010</ref>