| The Apache Kid | |
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Real Name |
Unknown |
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First Appearance |
Strange Fantasy #14 (October-November 1954) |
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Original Publisher |
Ajax-Farrell |
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Created by |
Ken Battefield ? |
Origin[]
The Apache Kid was a title promised by Ajax-Farrell that never actually saw print.
Later, two of his stories appeared in Lone Rider 23-24. The Apache kid was a white boy raised in an Apache tribe who love both worlds. He became a sort of Robin Hood of the West.
His parents were two settlers who were killed when their caravan went throught apache territory. Chief White Bull was the one that raised the only survivor, along his wife Tasa. Twenty years later the baby grown to be the Apache Kid. When he tried to direct the wandering apache Elk Head and his wife to his own home camp so they could rest, they returned and told him that his camp had been destroyed and all his people killed. So the Apache Kid came to see the corpses of his parents and the camp burned. He made an oath to avenge the massacre.
He found that an outlaw called Buck Hanson and his gang were the culprits and he attacked his camp when they were celebrating. He killed many of them with a rock and captured Hanson. The Kid brought him to a nearby army camp so he would be hanged by all his crimes. Apache kid return to the apaches and became a friend of Elk Head.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Strange Fantasy #14
- Lone Rider #23-24
- Apache Trail #3
Notes[]
- The stories in Apache Trail#3 are Lone Rider stories, with the titular character was redrawn to appear Apache Kid, but with no complete connection with earlier stories of Apache Kid.
- Later, the stories of Apache Kid were redrawn to the later Farrell character "Oklahoma Kid", who had adventures consisted of reprints of previous western heroes.
- This character had no relation to the real life person also named "Apache Kid" (who also had comic appareances) or the Marvel characters named Apache Kid.