I don't wanna say I bought too many comics, but I'm gonna have start putting them in the bathroom soon.

Hopefully not, but there is a mess of sorting to be done. And instead of doing that, we're reading old westerns. From 1975, the Mighty Marvel Western #42, with a nice Gil Kane cover.

The opener is a Lee/Kirby Rawhide Kid number, "When Six-Guns Roar!" Reprinted from 1962's Rawhide Kid #27, and from the description on the GCD this might be the least dated of stories from that one. Rawhide gets a job as a bona-fide cowboy this issue, for a boss who didn't believe in guns and didn't have his crew carry any. Rawhide's game, even though the crew think it's funny to try and pick on him: they're a lot braver when he was unarmed. Of course, the boss's foreman turns on him, and it's up to Rawhide to show him guns are A-OK, in the right hands.

Next, gunfighter Matt Slade, who I suspect is here just to break up Marvel's usual "Kid Whatever" western names...hey, he was Kid Slade in 1957's Kid Slade, Gunfighter #5! No story credit, but art by Werner Roth. Slade's camping out in the Montana mountains, which is probably as fun then as it is now; when he meets a young wannabe that wants to join the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Does that sound dirty? Pervert. Matt had been wanted by the law, but was now an undercover marshal, and opts to cut his vacation short to keep tabs on the wannabe and bring in the gang. Did people go camping for fun back then?

Finally, a Two-Gun Kid story, from 1958's Two-Gun Kid #41, written by Stan Lee, art by Joe Maneely. A snooze of a stagecoach ride gets more interesting when a pretty girl flags it down, as part of a joke holdup. The joke's on her, though, as the holdup was real, but they turn on each other pretty shortly. Two-Gun explains in the end, gunfighters are mostly bullies and cowards; he was an outlaw fighter that just happened to be handy with a gun. An important distinction!