The Outlaw Kid was Lance Temple, an Old West lawyer and Civil War veteran living with his blinded father on a ranch.

Though promising his father he would never take up a gun, he nonetheless felt the need to right wrongs expediently on the near-lawless frontier, and created a masked identity in order to keep his gunslinging secret.

Comic-book artist Doug Wildey, later a noted animation designer, illustrated three to four stories per issue of the 19-issue series The Outlaw Kid (cover dated Sept. 1954-Sept. 1957).

Comics historian Ken Quattro called the series Wildey's most "noteworthy" Western work: In concept, it was typical of all the Stan Lee-created Kids (Colt, Rawhide, Two-Gun, Ringo, etc.).

Wildey varied his inking from the fine stroke of an etching to the bold use of solid blacks to attain dramatic chiaroscuro effects.

To take revenge on the killers of his mother, Lance created the persona of Outlaw Kid, intending to not disturb his old father.

Lance also tried to romance the newcomer neighbor Belle Taylor, who liked him but disliked his apparent cowardice and encouraged him to be more like the masked Outlaw Kid.

The Outlaw Kid reappeared in the four-issue limited series Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes (2000), by writer John Ostrander and artist Leonardo Manco, which specifically retconned MANY OF THE Marvel Western stories of years past as dime novel fictions based on the characters' actual lives.

As series writer John Ostrander explained, The Outlaw Kid was once described as the closest thing in the Old West to Spider-Man.

In my version of it, he's gone a little bit over the edge, in that his father eventually found out, and the heart attack killed him, and he's devised the Outlaw Kid into a whole different personality.