Marvel's Wild West Heroes & Villains

**highwayguy** · 08-09-2011, 08:52 AM

How many Wild West-style characters, past, present or future, does Marvel have? I can think of a few but I'm sure there are lots more out there.

**marshal99** · 08-09-2011, 09:31 AM

Two-gun kid
Phantom Rider
Kid Colt & Arizona girl
Rawhide Kid
Red Wolf
Outlaw kid
Reno Jones & Kid Cassidy (The Gunhawks)
Apache kid
Black Mask/Black Rider (?)
Matt Slade
Tex Dawson , gunslinger

**Vic Vega** · 08-09-2011, 10:31 AM

Nice list, marshal99!

I think that is all of the classic ones.

Here is one you missed:

http://marvel.wikia.com/Philadelphia_Filly_(Earth-616)

A recent creation. But the OP wanted all the Wild West characters.

**highwayguy** · 08-09-2011, 10:40 AM

I've always liked the Shiver Man. It would be nice to see more of his Wild West origins.

And the Ghost Rider / Phantom Rider legacy is always fun to see, no matter which Slade it is.

**rogerio** · 08-09-2011, 11:33 AM

I want to see a Marvel Western book by Jordi Bernet...

**jsf** · 08-09-2011, 02:00 PM

Marvel's got some great western characters. I'd love to see them do a Western based series that utilized their characters without either parodying them (ala the recent Rawhide Kid stuff) or making the "grim and gritty" (ala the Blaze of Glory series). There's nothing necessarily wrong with either of those other approaches, but I'd rather read something more in keeping with established continuity (the recent Kid Colt one-shot was pretty decent along those lines).

**andybmcd** · 08-09-2011, 03:27 PM

Isn't Andy Diggle writing a Western mini starring Marvel's Western characters called "Six Guns" or something like that?

**highwayguy** · 08-09-2011, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by andybmcd

Isn't Andy Diggle writing a Western mini starring Marvel's Western characters called "Six Guns" or something like that?

Really? That should be good. I'll need to look out for that.

I hope it includes Shiver Man. He has the potential to be Marvel's answer to Jonah Hex.

**Rasputin9977** · 08-09-2011, 04:43 PM

Also Caleb Hammer.

Don't know if Absalom counts. He is the man that killed Caleb Hammer but he isn't that well known outside 90s X-Force.

And there was also a new native american female introduced in those series of one-shots that Marvel put out a few years ago.

**Vic Vega** · 08-10-2011, 01:07 AM

There was also Gunhawk aka Bountyhawk.

I had thought Ostrander made him up for Blaze Of Glory, but apparantly he is also a 50's character like Kid Colt.

My dad used to get me those Western reprint comics when I was little so Im kinda familar with most of those characters(Gunhawk id never seen).

While Two Gun Kid an Rawhide Kid have been revisited by Marvel fairly often, I was always surprised that Marvel didnt make more use of The Outlaw Kid.

While he had no powers or gimmicks outside of his mask, he was pretty much Western Spider Man.

Since his aged dad hated violence he had to pretend to be wimpy Lance Temple by day and was the heroic Outlaw Kid (who wasnt an outlaw at all iirc-he just thought it was a cool name) by night.

**andybmcd** · 08-10-2011, 01:33 AM

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/...el-in-october/

Here it is.

**highwayguy** · 08-10-2011, 04:50 AM

Originally Posted by andybmcd

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/...el-in-october/

Here it is.

Thanks.

I'm not so keen on the modern day staging of the story, but it is definitely worth a look. Tarantula, Western Kid, Two-Gun Kid, Matt Slade and the Black Rider are a good line-up (although I was expecting some of the other Western characters like Rawhide Kid, Red Wolf, Apache Kid (Rosa) and Carter Slade).

**Manphibian** · 08-10-2011, 05:38 AM

Love, Love, Love Marvels Westerns. I really feel this is where Marvel needs to put some focus on, a lot of old time readers grew up on this stuff. Whether it be essentials or Omnibuses, these need to start being fully reprinted.

Marvel needs to follow DC's Showcase line and start printing some of there lesser or know or oddball stuff, that is where DC excels(War that Time Forgot a great example).

Get on the ball Marvel.