Comics-Kid Colt TB

Please drop this item in rural OR Premium Member Only caches.  Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; this prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take this travel bug anywhere you wish.  No permission needed to leave the U.S. 

Travel bug photos are appreciated.  I will re-post them here, where they can be seen by other cachers.

My youth was in the late 1940s and early 1950s.  Drawing from that period, this is one of a series of travel bugs made to commemorate favorite characters from comic books, comic strips, movie cartoons, B-movies and animated feature-length movies.  Some of the characters had only a brief existence, some survived as radio and early TV programs and some have been digitally-modernized into some of the blockbuster movies of today.  There were many other characters, but these are the ones on which I was willing to spend my dimes (comic books) and quarters (movie and popcorn).  However, I didn’t pay for the daily comic strips or Sunday funnies that came with the newspaper.

Kid Colt (Blaine Colt) is an American Old West cowboy character who starred in the comic book series Kid Colt Outlaw, as well as in several other titles. 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.

Kid Colt and his horse Steel first appeared in 1948 in Marvel Comics predecessor Timely Comics.  Originally his cover logo was subtitled "Hero of the West" but by issue three this was changed to "Outlaw".  His origin involved being wrongly accused of murder (he killed his father's murderer in a fair gun battle) and becoming a fugitive from the law.  Along the way he engaged in heroic good acts in an effort to restore his reputation.  This origin is similar to that of the Rawhide Kid, another Western character from Marvel's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics.