History Characters / MarvelComicsWesternCharacters

The Rawhide Kid (real name: Johnny Bart, originally given as Johnny Clay) is a fictional WildWest cowboy appearing in American comic books published by Creator/MarvelComics. A heroic gunfighter of the 19th-century American West who was unjustly wanted as an outlaw, he is one of Marvel's most prolific Western characters. He and other Marvel western heroes have on rare occasions guest-starred through time travel in such contemporary titles as ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers''.

* KillerGorilla: In #39, Rawhide battles the Ape: a trained gorilla under the control of MadScientist Dr. Karlbad.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: The premise of ''The Sensational Seven'' miniseries. When Wyatt and Morgan Earp are taken hostage by Cristo Pike and his pack of pistoleros, Rawhide has no choice but to put together a posse of the greatest western heroes in the Marvel Universe - to rescue the Earp brothers and bring Pike to justice. Enter: Kid Colt, Doc Holliday, Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, Red Wolf and the most overrated gun in the West: the Two-Gun Kid!
* MasterOfDisguise: In #49, Rawhide battles a villain known as the Masquerader. As no one had ever seen his true face he was able to easily disguise himself so no one would guess that he was a gunfighter. He was even able to disguise himself as people of different ethnicities, such as a Chinaman and Mexican. He even impersonated ComicBook/KidColt in order to put the two gunslingers at each other's throats.
* MistakenForGay: In ''The Sensational Seven'', the openly gay Rawhide Kid figures his compatriot the Two-Gun Kid for gay based on his costume -- stuff like the kerchief, the mask, the print on the vest. When they talk about it, Two-Gun is mortified and says he has to rethink his look, but Rawhide encourages him to keep it the same, saying that being tough is about standing your ground, being true to yourself, and not caring about what other people think.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The Masked Maverick was really a rancher named Mason. Mason had been crippled in an accident and confined to wheelchair years earlier. After suddenly regaining use of his legs, he adopted the identity of the Masked Maverick and started rustling cattle to rebuild his failing fortune, keeping his regained mobility a secret.
* OnlyAFleshWound: The climax of ''The Sensational Seven'' comes when the Kid confronts BigBad Cresto Pike. Pike is holding two hostages in front of him: Wyatt Earp himself, and the Kid's own father. The Kid [[ShootTheHostage shoots them both]], hitting them ''just so'' they would drop, eliminating Cresto's advantage before killing him. The unlikelihood is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, as the rest of the Kid's posse state in awe that no one else in the world could have pulled that off.
* TheParalyzer: Rawhide once fought a villain called Scorpion who was an expert pharmacist. He developed a gun that fired plastic capsules containing a quick-acting paralytic. The capsule melted almost instantly, and the drug took effect as soon as the victim was struck by the capsule. Scorpion would later change his alias to Sting-Ray and go on to fight the Phantom Rider.
* ThePsychoRangers: In ''The Sensational Seven'', when the BigBad learns that the Rawhide Kid and the Seven are coming for him, he recruits a team composed of villainous counterparts of the Seven.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Rawhide once fought a villain wielding a [[TheParalyzer paralysis gun]] called the Scorpion. The Scorpion later broke jail, changed his alias to Sting-Ray, and battled another western hero, the Phantom Rider.
* ShootTheHostage: In ''The Sensational Seven'', the Kid is face to face with BigBad Cresto Pike, who is holding two hostages in front of him: Wyatt Earp, and the Kid's father. Without hesitation, he shoots them down [[JustAFleshWound non-lethally]] before fatally shooting Cresto. He's a Western hero, he has ImprobableAimingSkills as a matter of course.
* ThisBearWasFramed: In #94, a man called Ace Fenton dresses up in a grizzly bear costume in order to rob the Pony Express. After almost getting caught by Rawhide and the Two-Gun Kid, Fenton starts persuading the locals that Rawhide has been training bears to rob for him. The next stage of his plan involves breaking into the courtroom during Rawhide's trial and dragging him away so it will look like Rawhide and the grizzly are in cahoots. [[{{ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext}} It makes just as much sense in context.]]
* TheTropeKid

* WeAllDieSomeday: The final spoken line of the SpaghettiWestern miniseries ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory:'' ''[[GrandFinale The Last Ride of the Western Heroes]]'', provided by the Rawhide Kid:

* WeirdWest: Although most of Rawhide's adventures were standard horse opera stuff, he did also fight monsters which were not a ScoobyDooHoax. One particularly famous (or infamous) example was the Living Totem: a alien who looked like a totem pole with arms and legs.

!!!'''First Appearance:''' Kid Colt #1 (August, 1948)

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Comics'' #1 (August, 1939)

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Outlaw Kid'' #1 (September, 1954)

* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite weighing 300 lb., the Fat Man was extremely strong and very agile. He liked to take people off-guard by running, doing a somersault, and taking them out, just like [[BowledOver a bowling ball and the pins]].
* ArchEnemy: Iron Mask, a villain clad in bulletproof armour, fought Kid Colt more times than any other foe.
* BattleBoomerang: The Fat Man who is an expert in the use of his boomerang. In his first appearance, he is able to draw and throw a boomerang fast enough to knock Colt's gun out of his before he can fire, and then nail Colt in his left shoulder before he can draw his second gun.
* TheBlacksmith: Iron Mask was a blacksmith who built himself a suit of bulletproof armour.
* BoomerangComeback: Almost without fail, the Fat Man would throw a boomerang past someone, who would laugh at his obvious miss. They would continue to laugh until the boomerang came whizzing up behind them and either knocked them our, or knocked their guns out of their hands.
* BulletproofVest: Iron Mask, Kid Colt's ArchEnemy, was a blacksmith who constructed a suit of bulletproof armour for his career of crime. Initially consisting of just a helmet and chest piece, he kept adding to it following his encounters with Colt until it was a full suit.
* CircusOfFear: Kid Colt twice fought groups known as the 'Circus of Crime'. In #106, he was forced to join a small a small travelling circus that visited small towns and used their circus skills to rob them. And #127, Colt's Archenemy Iron Mask organized a LegionOfDoom consisting of several other foes of Kid Colt (Bennington Brown, Dr. Danger, and the Fat Man) who posed as circus performers to rob the inauguration ball of the new governor of Arizona.

* CutTheFuse: In #109, the Kid demonstrates his ImprobableAimingSkills by firing a shot that severs the burning fuse on a cannon, in what the narration describes as "a feat of marksmanship unequalled in recorded history".

* FatBastard: The Fat Man is 300 lb. of bad attitude. A combination if {{Acrofatic}}, StoutStrength, and a BattleBoomerang make him far more dangerous than most people assume at first.
* FoeTossingCharge: A favourite tactic the Fat Man was to take a run-up and then somersault into people, flattening them like bowling pins.
* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: In ''ComicBook/RawhideKid'' #49, MasterOfDisguise the Masquerader spies Kid Colt cleaning himself in a river and takes the opportunity to steal the outlaw's clothes to use as another disguise. When he gets to Willow Flats he dresses up as Colt, robs the payroll express and shoots the town's sheriff, Joseph Clay, the Rawhide Kid's brother.

* HollywoodMagnetism: The parts of Dr. Danger's shtick that weren't archived through {{Ventriloquism}} were done through the use of magnets (or, as one commentator put it, "you know, those really powerful magnets you can only find in comic books"). The effects he achieves would be impossible with 21st century technology, let alone 19th.
* HypnoticEyes: Bennington Brown is a skilled hypnotist who can use his power on anyone he can make eye contact with. He can use his abilities to create illusions, slow down the reactions of others so he can seem to outdraw them, and prevent his victims from pressing charges against him.
* IdenticalStranger: In ''Gunsmoke Western'' #64, Kid Colt encounters a fugitive named Sandy "Baby-Face" Smith, who looks uncannily like him. So much so, in fact, that Smith is able to steal Colt's distinctive calfskin vest and white hat and pass himself off as Kid Colt. Colt is only able to establish his true identity by demonstrating that he is the superior gunslinger.
* InspectorJavert: A recurring antagonist is Marshal Sam Hawk, a.k.a. 'the Manhunter', an honest lawman who was dogging Colt's trail because he honestly believed him to be an outlaw.

* KnifeThrowingAct: Blade Benson was the knife thrower in the [[CircusOfFear Circus of Crime]] who fought Kid Colt in ''Kid Colt, Outlaw'' #106.
* LegionOfDoom: Kid Colt was one of the few Marvel western heroes to have enough recurring enemies to make this trope possible. In #127, Colt's ArchEnemy Iron Mask (a blacksmith in bulletproof armour) recruited Bennington Brown (a hypnotist), Dr. Danger (a ventriloquist and master of magnets) and the Fat Man (a FatBastard skilled in the use of the boomerang) to form a CircusOfFear to stage a crime wave in Phoenix, where they naturally ran into Colt.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In #39, Colt encounters three bandits pulling a ScoobyDooHoax by pretending to be the legendary 'Ghost of Midnight Mountain'. During the fight, Colt gets knocked off the edge of the cliff and is holding on to a branch. One of the outlaws tries to drop a rock on his head, but suddenly sees someone that terrifies him and he falls off the cliff. When Colt reached the top of the cliff, he finds the other two paralyzed with terror. Colt rides away, wondering if the legends of Midnight Mountain really are true.
* NothingUpMySleeve: The Scorpion wore a derringer fitted with a silencer on his forearm, with string leading from the trigger to his finger. With his hands gloved and his sleeves and jacket long, he would seem to "sting" targets merely by pointing at them.
* OutlawTown: In ''Kid Colt, Outaw'' #101, [[InspectorJavert Marshal Sam Hawk]]'s daughter convinces Kid Colt to rescue him from a town run by outlaws.
* {{Pirate}}: In #109, Colt battle the Barracuda and his crew: pirates who prey on coastal towns on the Gulf of Mexico.
* PrisonEpisode: In #118, Kid Colt is duped into being arrested and sent to state prison. Once there he find himself WorkingOnTheChainGang with three villains he had sent there: "Bull" Barton, Dr. Danger, and the Scorpion.
* RuthlessModernPirates: Possibly stretching the definition of 'modern', but in #109 Kid Colt fought a pirate called the Barracuda and his crew who were preying on coastal settlements along the Gulf of Mexico. Set in the latter half of the 19th century, the Barracuda and his men sail a modern ship, dress in modern seafarers' clothes, use modern weapons, and invoke none of the tropes of APirate400YearsTooLate (apart from attempting to make the Kid WalkThePlank).
* ScoobyDooHoax: In #39, Colt encounters three outlaws taking advantage of the reputation Midnight Mountain has for being haunted by pretending to be the Ghost of Midnight Mountain to scare people away from their hideout.
* StoutStrength: Much like ComicBook/TheKingpin, the Fat Man is a large mass of muscle, with nice layer of fat on top for decorative purposes. He is much stronger than an average sized man, and can throw and take a punch with the best of him.

* {{Ventriloquism}}: Dr. Danger was a highly skilled ventriloquist who combined throwing his voice with his mastery of magnet to convince people that he had a partner called 'the Invisible Gunman'.
* WalkThePlank: In #109, pirate captain Barracuda attempts to make Colt walk the plank after he catches him stowing away on his ship.
* WorkingOnTheChainGang: In #118, Kid Colt is duped into being arrested and [[PrisonEpisode sent to state prison]]. Once there he find himself working on a chain gang alongside three villains he had sent there: "Bull" Barton, Dr. Danger, and the Scorpion.

* BountyHunter: During the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Matt Hawk became a licensed bounty hunter and worked alongside She-Hulk, helping her to apprehend super-villains.

[[folder:Apache Kid]]
!!Apache Kid
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1032580_aloysius_kare__earth_616.jpg]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Aloysius Kare
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Dazii, Alan Krandal, Allan Krandell, Dazii Aloysius Kare, Danzii Kane
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Two-Gun Western'' #5 (November, 1950)

Alan Krandal is a kid who was raised by Apache Chief that fights for anything threatened in his homeland.

[[folder:Arizona Annie]]
!!Arizona Annie
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1040486_1358.jpg]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Annie (last name unrevealed)
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Arizona Girl
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Wild West'' #1 (March, 1948)

A western hero with an attitude and a gun, Annie was one of the few female heroes of her time, but had a solid reputation as one of the fastest draws with a gun in the Wild West.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Black Rider]]
!!Black Rider
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/361540_176150_black_rider.jpg]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Matthew Masters
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Cactus Kid, Black Mask, Dark Western Avenger, Morris Masters, Doc Masters
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''All Winners'' #2 (December, 1948)

At a young age Masters watched his parents get murdered by some looters. Wanting and seeking justice this young man grew to be a man and tracked the men who killed his parents. Calling himself the Cactus Kid, he shot and killed them. Arrested and pardoned, he went on to medical school and settled in Leadville, Texas. Now nick-named Doc by the local town folk, Morris led a good life, until he came across a land robber, not wanting to tarnish his reputation he became the Black Rider.
----
* ClarkKenting: During his days as the Black Rider, his would-be girlfriend Marie Lathrop thought Matthew was a coward. In his disguise, he advised her not to be so harsh on him.
* CoolMask: Another bearer of the Eternity Mask.
* DramaticIrony: On passing the Eternity Mask to Dennis Piper, he warned him not to hand it over to the Scientists Guild, who'd originally made the Mask. Dennis would unwittingly do so. In fact, the part of ''Marvel Comics'' #1000 showing this came before the page showing Masters passing the mask to Dennis in the first place.
* TheTopicOfCancer: One of the few Western heroes to live out the end of the Wild West, Masters developed terminal cancer in the 30s.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kid Colt]]
!!Kid Colt
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kid_colt_9.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Kid Colt is about to shoot someone to the right of you.]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Blaine Colt
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Mr. Jones, Johnny Colt, Kid Arbuckle, Blaine Cole
!!!'''First Appearance:''' Kid Colt #1 (August, 1948)

Kid Colt was a nickname for Blaine Colt, a cowboy who was renowned for his quick draw and temper. He lived a relative easy and peaceful life until his father was murdered by bandits. Colt was furious and devastated with grief over his father's murder and sought out to find those that where responsible. When he finally found the murders, he challenged them to a gunfight. Kid Colt won and killed his father's killers. He was however wrongly accused of murder when he did this, even though it was a fair gunfight (which was not illegal in the Wild West during this period of time). He was branded an "Outlaw" and got a price on his head. From that point on, Colt was on the run for the law wherever he went. He traveled to many places in the West, trying to do what was right in fighting crime, but also himself trying to stay out of the long arms of the law.
----

[[folder:Ringo Kid]]
!!Ringo Kid
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1073091_rngok112.jpg]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Rand (First name unknown)

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Ringo Kid'' #1 (August, 1954)

His father was Caucasian and his mother was a Comanche, and because of that he was an outcast from his heritage. He became a western gunfighter who dressed all in black. He received his nick name from practicing shooting bottles, because he liked the ringing sound they made. The Ringo Kid also had a sidekick named Dull Knife, and a horse named Arab.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tex Taylor]]
!!Tex Taylor
[[quoteright:241:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1484715_tex.jpg]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Tex Taylor
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Prairie Kid
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Wild West'' #1 (March, 1948)

Tex lived with his father on their ranch in Whisperin' Valley, near Wishbone, Texas. One day the head of the "Cattlemen's Protection League" attempted to extort protection money from Tex's father. His father refused and the head of the League rode off, threatening the man.

Tex joined the Army during the Civil War. While away in the Unior Army at war, Tex received a letter saying that his father had been killed and that he had sold the ranch to the League before his demise.

Tex returned to find that the head of the League had rigged an election and became Sheriff, afterwards forcing Tex's father to sign the ranch over to him, and then had him killed. Tex investigated matters and discovered that the town mayor was responsible for everything. The mayor was interested in the gold deposits on the ranch of Tex's father. Tex killed the mayor, and then vowed to spend his life hunting criminals all over the west and destroying them.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Kid]]
!!Western Kid
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2009430_994944_tex_dawson_gunslinger1_1_73_super.jpg]]
!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Tex Dawson
!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Gun-Slinger
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Western Kid'' #1 (December, 1954)

Tex Dawson was the star of his own magazine in "Western Kid". He was a cowboy in the time of other famous Marvel cowboys such as Rawhide Kid and Kid Colt.
----
[[/folder]]

-> See [[Characters/GhostRiderTitleCharacter Ghost Rider]]

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Ghost Rider'' #1 (February, 1967)

Carter Slade, the first man to wear the mask, debuted in Ghost Rider #1 (Feb. 1967). He battled evil while dressed in a phosphorescent white costume, complete with a full-face mask, cape, and the requisite white hat. Slade received his outfit and his white horse from Flaming Star, a Native American medicine man. He recruited a young sidekick named Jamie Jacobs whom helped him during his missions. Eventually, Carter was killed in a gunfight. Jamie Jacobs vowed to follow in the foodsteps of his friend and mentor.

At a young age Masters watched his parents get murdered by some looters. Wanting and seeking justice this young man grew to be a man and tracked the men who killed his parents. Calling himself the Cactus Kid, he shot and killed them. Arrested and pardoned, he went on to Medical school and settled in Leadville, Texas. Now nick-named Doc by the local town folk. Morris led a good life, until he came across a land robber, not wanting to tarnish his reputation he became the Black Rider.

* HiredToHuntYourself: [[Outlaw Kid Lance Temple]] hired himself to hunt himself, in the ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'' miniseries.

* SplitPersonalitySwitchTrigger: ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'': Lance Temple becomes the Outlaw Kid if anyone pulls his bandanna over his face. [[spoiler:In the final issue, [[SplitPersonalityTeam he does that himself]].]]
* SplitPersonalityTeam: [[Outlaw Kid Lance Temple]] starts off ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'' wanting to avenge himself upon his other personality, the Outlaw Kid, who he believes killed his father. In reality, it was the shock of discovering his son ''was'' the Outlaw Kid that killed his father. As the 4th issue begins, Lance starts coming to terms with the truth, and willingly [[TheHatMakesTheMan pulls his mask over his face]] to become the Outlaw Kid.

* TraumaCongaLine: The deaths of his wife, his daughter and of his best friend Boom Boom Brown (deaths, which might have been prevented with the modern medicine Two-Gun saw in the future), made him cynical and fatalistic.

Tex Dawson was the star of his own magazine in "Western Kid". He was a cowboys in the time of other famous Marvel cowboys such as Rawhide Kid and Kid Colt.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: 'Blaine Colt' is the sort of name one does not usually find outside of a SoapOpera.

Masked men, lawmen, dudes, owlhoots and vigilantes! From the battle of the Alamo to the dusty streets of Tombstone, the men and women of the West that was are finally unearthed in this scrapbook of memories from the personal collection of the modern-day Phantom Rider! Featuring entries on the Black Rider, Tex Dawson, Gunhawk, Kid Colt, the Masked Raider, the Outlaw Kid, the Phantom Rider, the Rawhide Kid, the Steam Rider, the Two-Gun Kid and more!

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Aloysius Kare
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Dazii, Alan Krandal, Allan Krandell, Dazii Aloysius Kare, Danzii Kane
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Two-Gun Western'' #5 (November, 1950)

Alan Krandal is a kid who was raised by Apache Chief that fights for anything threatened in his homeland

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Annie (last name unrevealed)
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Arizona Girl
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wild West'' #1 (March, 1948)

A western hero with an attitude and a gun, Annie was one of the few female heroes of her time, but had a solid reputation as one of the fastest draws with a gun in the Wild West.

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Matthew Masters
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Cactus Kid, Black Mask, Dark Western Avenger, Morris Masters, Doc Masters
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''All Winners'' #2 (December, 1948)

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Blaine Colt
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Mr. Jones, Johnny Colt, Kid Arbuckle, Blaine Cole
!!! '''First Appearance:''' Kid Colt #1 (August, 1948)

* CircusOfFear: Kid Colt twice fought groups known as the 'Circus of Crime'. In #106, he was forced to join a small a small travelling circus that visited small towns and used their circus skills to rob them. And #127, Colt's Archenemy Iron Mask organized a LegionOfDoom consisting of several other foes of Kid Colt (Bennington Brown, Dr. Danger, and the Fat Man) who posed as circus performers to rob the inauguration ball of the new governor of Arizona

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jim Gardley
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Streak
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Comics'' #1 (August, 1939)

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Lance Temple
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Masked Avenger of the West, Outlaw
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Outlaw Kid'' #1 (September, 1954)

* SplitPersonalitySwitchTrigger: ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory'': Lance Temple becomes the Outlaw Kid if anyone pulls his bandanna over his face. [[spoiler: In the final issue, [[SplitPersonalityTeam he does that himself.]]]]

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Carter Slade
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Ghost Rider, Night Rider, Son of the Spirits, He Who Rides The Night Winds, Frontier Phantom, Phantom of the Plains
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Ghost Rider'' #1 (February, 1967)

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jonathan Clay
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Johnny Bart, Johnny Clay, Jeb Kent, Trey, Dances-Naked-With-Glee
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Rawhide Kid'' #17 (August, 1960)

* GetBackInTheCloset: This is supposedly the sole reason why the 2003'' miniseries Marvel MAX imprint, even if he was just somewhat hinted to be gay. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18502_the-5-most-unintentionally-offensive-comic-book-characters.html Through constant and offensive innuendo]].

* ThisBearWasFramed: In #94, a man called Ace Fenton dresses up in a grizzly bear costume in order to rob the Pony Express. After almost getting caught by Rawhide and the Two-Gun Kid, Fenton starts persuading the locals that Rawhide has been training bears to rob for him. The next stage of his plan involves breaking into the courtroom during Rawhide's trial and dragging him away so it will look like Rawhide and the grizzly are in cahoots. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Rand (First name unknown)
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Ringo Kid'' #1 (August, 1954)

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Tex Taylor
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Prairie Kid
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wild West'' #1 (March, 1948)

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Matthew Hawk (Born Matthew Leibowitz)
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Clay Harder, Matthew Leibowitz, The No-Gun Kid
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Two-Gun Kid'' #60 (November, 1962)

* SomethingPerson / TheTropeKid: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin He's a young man with two guns]].

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Tex Dawson
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Gun-Slinger
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Western Kid'' #1 (December, 1954)

[[caption-width-right:350:L-R - Rawhide Kid (firing into the air), Two Gun Kid (firing two guns into the ground) and Kid Colt (firing off to his left, your right.[[note]]None of these supposed sharpshooters are even looking in the direction they are firing[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:L-R - Rawhide Kid (firing into the air), Two Gun Kid (firing into the ground) and Kid Colt (firing off to his left, your right.[[note]]None of these supposed sharpshooters are even looking in the direction they are firing[[/note]]]]

%%[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]

[[folder:Rawhide Kid]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rawhide_kid_ii.jpg]]

The Rawhide Kid (real name: Johnny Bart, originally given as Johnny Clay) is a fictional WildWest cowboy appearing in American comic books published by Creator/MarvelComics. A heroic gunfighter of the 19th-century American West who was unjustly wanted as an outlaw, he is one of Marvel's most prolific Western characters. He and other Marvel western heroes have on rare occasions guest-starred through time travel in such contemporary titles as ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers''.

When Johnny Bart was an infant, his parents, the Clays, were killed in a raid by Cheyenne Indians. The infant Johnny was overlooked by the Cheyenne raiders, however, and was soon found by Ben Bart, a Texas Ranger. Bart adopted Johnny and raised him on his ranch outside Rawhide, Texas. Bart named his adopted son "Johnny Bart." Ben Bart was one of the fastest gunmen in the Texas Rangers. When Johnny was sixteen, Ben, who by then had retired from the Texas Rangers, began teaching him how to use a gun. By the time that Johnny had reached his eighteenth birthday, Ben had taught him all he could, and Johnny had become even faster and better than Ben was at using a gun.

Shortly after his eighteenth birthday, Johnny Bart went into Rawhide to buy the month's provisions for the ranch. Once he was gone, a drifter named Hawk Brown confronted Ben Bart and challenged him to draw his gun; Brown hoped to make a reputation for himself by outdrawing the renowned Ben Bart. Unknown to Ben, Brown had an accomplice named Spade hiding nearby Just as Ben drew his sixguns, Spade called out to Bart from behind, distracting Ben just as Brown and Spade had planned. Brown took the opportunity to gun Ben Bart down.

On his return, Johnny Bart found his adoptive father's corpse and buried him. Johnny vowed to avenge Ben Barr's death. He could tell that two men were responsible for Ben's death from the way the bullets struck him as if he had half turned around to see someone behind him. Johnny rode to Rawhide, where Brown and Spade were claiming that Ben Bart had started a fight with Brown and that Brown had outdrawn him fairly Johnny confronted Brown, who drew his guns on him. But before Brown could squeeze his triggers, Johnny drew his own guns and fired them, wounding Brown in the arm. Seeing Spade in the mirror about to shoot him from behind, Johnny, without turning around, fired over his own shoulders, hitting Spade in his gun arm. Johnny Bart left Brown and Spade to be taken into custody. Johnny declared he would not return home to the ranch, but would use his gun-fighting prowess to fight evildoers like Brown and Spade wherever he could, no matter what the odds were against him. Johnny called himself the Rawhide Kid after the town in which his gun-fighting career began.

Despite being declared an outlaw, the Rawhide Kid continued to defend the weak and helpless and to battle criminals. Among the most notorious or unusual of his many adversaries were the Cougar, the original Red Raven, the Ape, the Tyrant of Tombstone Valley, the Masked Maverick, Marko the Manhunter, and the strange alien called the Living Totem.

The Rawhide Kid sometimes joined forces with other legendary gunfighters, including Comicbook/KidColt, the second Phantom Rider, and the Two-Gun Kid. The Rawhide Kid even allied himself with members of the Avengers who visited his time period.

The Rawhide Kid was still an active gunfighter as late as 1897. It has not yet been revealed how, when, or where he died.

!! Tropes associated with the Rawhide Kid and his comics:

* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: The Kid's usual M.O. (along with every other cowboy hero of the TheFifties and TheSixties). If the writers were feeling edgy enough, the hero might occasionally shoot the villain in the hand or shoulder, but shots intended to kill or seriously harm were a big no-no.
* CoolHorse: Like all Marvel western heroes, Rawhide had a cool horse. His was named Nightwind.
* FieryRedhead: The Kid is a redhead whose hot temper sometimes lands him in trouble.
* GayCowboy: The Kid in the eponymous 2003 limited series (but ''not'' in regular continuity, Earth 616 appearances). His over-hyped sexuality caused the books to be rated inappropriate for minors to read, even though the only indication he was gay was by offensive innuendos and implications.
* GetBackInTheCloset: This is supposedly the sole reason why the 2003'' miniseries Marvel MAX imprint, even if he was just somewhat hinted to be gay. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18502_the-5-most-unintentionally-offensive-comic-book-characters.html Through constant and offensive innuendo]].
* TheGunslinger: Typical of Creator/MarvelComics' western heroes of TheFifties and TheSixties, Rawhide is equal parts Trick Shot and Quick Draw, able to draw with blinding speed and always disabling his opponents without killing them.
* KillerGorilla: In #39, Rawhide battles the Ape: a trained gorilla under the control of MadScientist Dr. Karlbad.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: The premise of ''The Sensational Seven'' miniseries. When Wyatt and Morgan Earp are taken hostage by Cristo Pike and his pack of pistoleros, Rawhide has no choice but to put together a posse of the greatest western heroes in the Marvel Universe - to rescue the Earp brothers and bring Pike to justice. Enter: Kid Colt, Doc Holliday, Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, Red Wolf and the most overrated gun in the West: the Two-Gun Kid!
* MasterOfDisguise: In #49, Rawhide battles a villain known as the Masquerader. As no one had ever seen his true face he was able to easily disguise himself so no one would guess that he was a gunfighter. He was even able to disguise himself as people of different ethnicities, such as a Chinaman and Mexican. He even impersonated ComicBook/KidColt in order to put the two gunslingers at each other's throats.
* MistakenForGay: In ''The Sensational Seven'', the openly gay Rawhide Kid figures his compatriot the Two-Gun Kid for gay based on his costume -- stuff like the kerchief, the mask, the print on the vest. When they talk about it, Two-Gun is mortified and says he has to rethink his look, but Rawhide encourages him to keep it the same, saying that being tough is about standing your ground, being true to yourself, and not caring about what other people think.
* ObfuscatingDisability: The Masked Maverick was really a rancher named Mason. Mason had been crippled in an accident and confined to wheelchair years earlier. After suddenly regaining use of his legs, he adopted the identity of the Masked Maverick and started rustling cattle to rebuild his failing fortune, keeping his regained mobility a secret.
* OnlyAFleshWound: The climax of ''The Sensational Seven'' comes when the Kid confronts BigBad Cresto Pike. Pike is holding two hostages in front of him: Wyatt Earp himself, and the Kid's own father. The Kid [[ShootTheHostage shoots them both]], hitting them ''just so'' they would drop, eliminating Cresto's advantage before killing him. The unlikelihood is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, as the rest of the Kid's posse state in awe that no one else in the world could have pulled that off.
* TheParalyzer: Rawhide once fought a villain called Scorpion who was an expert pharmacist. He developed a gun that fired plastic capsules containing a quick-acting paralytic. The capsule melted almost instantly, and the drug took effect as soon as the victim was struck by the capsule. Scorpion would later change his alias to Sting-Ray and go on to fight the Phantom Rider.
* ThePsychoRangers: In ''The Sensational Seven'', when the BigBad learns that the Rawhide Kid and the Seven are coming for him, he recruits a team composed of villainous counterparts of the Seven.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Rawhide once fought a villain wielding a [[TheParalyzer paralysis gun]] called the Scorpion. The Scorpion later broke jail, changed his alias to Sting-Ray, and battled another western hero, the Phantom Rider.
* ShootTheHostage: In ''The Sensational Seven'', the Kid is face to face with BigBad Cresto Pike, who is holding two hostages in front of him: Wyatt Earp, and the Kid's father. Without hesitation, he shoots them down [[JustAFleshWound non-lethally]] before fatally shooting Cresto. He's a Western hero, he has ImprobableAimingSkills as a matter of course.
* ThisBearWasFramed: In #94, a man called Ace Fenton dresses up in a grizzly bear costume in order to rob the Pony Express. After almost getting caught by Rawhide and the Two-Gun Kid, Fenton starts persuading the locals that Rawhide has been training bears to rob for him. The next stage of his plan involves breaking into the courtroom during Rawhide's trial and dragging him away so it will look like Rawhide and the grizzly are in cahoots. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
* TheTropeKid
* TwilightOfTheOldWest: The 1985 miniseries is set in 1897 and has an aging Kid pondering the place of gunfighters in the new century.
* WeAllDieSomeday: The final spoken line of the SpaghettiWestern miniseries ''ComicBook/BlazeOfGlory:'' ''[[GrandFinale The Last Ride of the Western Heroes]]'', provided by the Rawhide Kid:
--> "Men die. Every single one of us. That's a fact and that's our fate."
** The last page also gives us "Only the legends are forever."
* WeirdWest: Although most of Rawhide's adventures were standard horse opera stuff, he did also fight monsters which were not a ScoobyDooHoax. One particularly famous (or infamous) example was the Living Totem: a alien who looked like a totem pole with arms and legs.
* YoungGun: In the 1985 miniseries, Rawhide acquired a sidekick named Jeff Packard, a.k.a. Understudy, who fit this trope.

Kid Colt is a cowboy whose adventures have taken place in numerous western-themed comic book series published by Creator/MarvelComics. He is the longest-running cowboy star in American comic-book publishing, featured in stories for a 31-year stretch from 1948–1979, though from 1966 most of the published stories were reprints.

!!Tropes associated with Kid Colt and his comics:

[[/folder]]