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He always was shy with the girls.
But it’s only now that “The Rawhide Kid,” Marvel Comic’s gun-slinging hero from the 1950s, is being revived as a gay character.
The new series, the first featuring an openly gay title character, pairs the original artist, John Severin, now 86, with Ron Zimmerman, a writer for the “Howard Stern Show.”
The original Rawhide Kid was not intended to be gay, but the new version uses double-entendres and euphemisms to reveal his homosexuality without saying anything explicitly.
In a bubble in the first edition of the series, Rawhide Kid comments about the Lone Ranger: “I think that mask and the powder blue outfit are fantastic. I can certainly see why the Indian follows him around.”
