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34-606: The series titled Two-Gun Kid ran in two parts, from 1948–1949 and then from 1953–1977. Clay Harder debuted in Two-Gun Kid #1 (March 1948). He was Marvel's second continuing Western character, following the Masked Raider , who had appeared in Marvel Comics #1 / Marvel Mystery Comics #2–12 (October 1939 – Octctoer 1940). Two-Gun Kid was the company's first ongoing Western title, running 10 issues. The character then moved to

68-401: A comic book title featuring the character Two Gun Kid originally published by Timely Comics beginning in 1948, by Atlas Comics from 1953 to 1961, and later by Marvel Comics . The series titled Two-Gun Kid ran in two parts, from 1948 to 1949 and then from 1953 to 1977. Clay Harder debuted in Two-Gun Kid #1 (March 1948). He was Marvel's second continuing Western character, following

102-470: A baby that Nomad had taken under his care whom Bushwacker believed to be the daughter of Troy Donohue, Burbank's ex-brother-in-law (she was in the fact the daughter of Nomad's foe, the drug lord Umberto Saffilios and a teenaged prostitute). Bushwacker hoped that his wife would approve of his "rescue" and welcome him back into her life. Imprisoned in the super-villain holding facility the Raft, Burbank escaped during

136-516: A coming "Age of Marvels," which detail the exploits of the Avengers and other modern-day Marvel heroes. Halloway believes Hawk/Liebowicz' stories are fantasies generated by his advanced age and senility. After Hawk passes away, Halloway learns Hawk bequeathed him his mask and guns, inspiring him to become the superhero the Angel . In the epilogue to the final issue, Hawk—now referred to as Matt Hawkins—is seen in

170-454: A freelancer. At some point, an event took place that compelled Bushwacker to begin a war against all mutants . Bushwacker began hunting and assassinating mutants, most often those mutants whose abilities Bushwacker perceived as making them especially talented in "the arts". Bushwacker also claimed that he was paid large sums of money to kill mutants, but this has yet to be verified. Wolverine learned of Bushwacker's activities and began to hunt

204-402: A great many unique powers and abilities. On top of this he has been altered bionically so that his hands can function as a gun, sword or other such armament he can think of. Burbank can fire bullets from his index finger as if his hand were a pistol. With a thought, he can alter the configuration of his right or left arm, allowing either to function in several modes that replicate the effects of

238-504: A last resort. Bushwacker's skin can liquefy to seal wounds, he even boasts a kind of healing ability that can seemingly revive him even from fatal injury. In the Daredevil vs. Punisher miniseries, it was implied that his powers are actually a natural mutation, making the assassin himself one of the mutants he hates so much. = Bushwacker has been trained in CIA hand-to-hand combat techniques, and

272-450: A nine-page backup story, "Invitation to a Gunfight", by writer Marv Wolfman , in the following issue (May 1972), marking his last known comics work. Bushwacker (comics) Bushwacker (Carl Burbank) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character is usually depicted as an adversary to the superhero, Daredevil , and less frequently to

306-556: A number of weapons. Including a machine gun, shotgun or even energy based cannonry. He employs powerful gadgets and weapons, most notably a flamethrower, all of which can be created by the mechanical prostheses that have replaced his forearms. He manages to load the weapons by swallowing ammo, such as bullets or flamethrower fuel. There are some versions that take this a step further, having Bushwacker be able to use highly concussive energy weaponry (very similar to that of Iron Man or War Machine), and even be able to morph his arm into blades as

340-551: A plan to kill their common foe. After the completion of the plan, Bushwacker was left to his own activities. Entering the Kingpin 's employ, Burbank attacked the Punisher, but was left for dead. It was during this time that his wife finally left him. He reappeared in the employ of drug lord Nick Lambert, who hired Bushwacker to kill reporter Ben Urich , who was about to run a story of his illegal activities. Instead, when Bushwacker learned

374-634: A regular basis. Two-Gun Kid #60 (Nov. 1962) retconned the Clay Harder character out of existence, turning him into a dime novel character who had inspired the second Two-Gun Kid, Matt Hawk. The 1995 Sunset Riders miniseries made the Two-Gun Kid Jewish, retconning Matt's true last name as Liebowicz. Clay Harder has bright blond hair and wears an all-black suit with a placard shirt, a broad-brimmed black hat. He packs two long-barreled revolvers with individual overlapping gun belts. Matt Hawk wears

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408-502: A similar outfit to Clay's, only with an orange-and-black spotted vest, a slightly narrower-brimmed hat, two revolvers on a single gun belt, and a black mask covering the top half of his face. In the Wild West , Matt Hawk is a lawyer from Boston , Massachusetts , who is inspired to fight evil as a masked crime fighter of the 19th-century American West by the stories of the fictional Two-Gun Kid, Clay Harder. After being trained in combat by

442-463: A time he rooms with the Awesome Android , who has reformed and is also an employee of the firm. Liebowicz travels using a twin-engine jet cycle, donated to him by his superhero friend Hawkeye . During the company-crossover story arc Civil War (2006–2007), Liebowicz becomes a bounty hunter and works alongside She-Hulk, helping her to apprehend supervillains. He is later sent to Arizona to lead

476-518: The Atlas Comics omnibus Wild Western , sharing the title with other Western characters like Kid Colt and the Black Rider . Beginning in 1953, Marvel continued the original Two-Gun Kid series from issue #11, publishing it until cover date April 1977. The Harder version of the character appeared sporadically through 1962, with Joe Sinnott being the last artist to draw the original Two-Gun Kid on

510-802: The Desert Stars team of the Fifty State Initiative . In this capacity he is injured in Avengers: The Initiative #16 (2008), but is recovered by Avengers: The Initiative Special #1 (2009). In the Marvel Legacy Falcon series, Two-Gun Kid is found in Mephisto 's Hell, eventually helping Falcon escape. In The Marvels Project the Two-Gun Kid is seen as an elderly patient of Dr. Thomas Halloway. He captivates Halloway with stories of

544-411: The Masked Raider , who had appeared in Marvel Comics #1 / Marvel Mystery Comics #2–12 (October 1939 – Octctoer 1940). Two-Gun Kid was the company's first ongoing Western title, running 10 issues. Russ Heath said in 2004 he believed his first work for Timely was a Western story featuring the Two-Gun Kid . Historians have tentatively identified his first work as either a Kid Colt story in

578-513: The Punisher and Wolverine . Created by Ann Nocenti and Rick Leonardi , the character made his first appearance in Daredevil #248 (Nov. 1987). Carl Burbank was a priest who abandoned his vows following the drug-related deaths of young parishioners. He joined the C.I.A. , which outfitted him with a cybernetic arm and made him an assassin under the codename "Bushwacker", but ultimately he became

612-451: The Avengers has resulted in his law license and other paraphernalia being kept in an Avengers safety-deposit box. Once he learns She-Hulk works for a law-firm, Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway, he tries to become her colleague. He comes to the conclusion he will never be able to catch up on current laws and becomes a bounty hunter. His first catch is the supervillain Bushwacker . For

646-490: The Kid had brought a cache of modern weapons back with him from the future. He was forced to stage his own death in order to free a man accused of murder, which got him embroiled in an international conspiracy for a hidden treasure. The later miniseries Blaze of Glory (2000) depicts the Kid as retired from gunplay, going by the name of Clay Harder and working as a full-time lawyer. The Rawhide Kid convinces him to return to action, but

680-514: The Matt Hawk Kid for the reprints. Two-Gun Kid story reprints, including many Jack Kirby-drawn stories, also appeared in the 1968–1976 title The Mighty Marvel Western . Ogden Whitney became the regular artist for the series from No. 87 to the final issue, No. 92 (May 1967 – March 1968). He wrote and drew the lead story in the mostly reprint revival of the title, in No. 103 (March 1972), and penciled

714-626: The Two-Gun Kid dies in battle against the racist mercenary Nightriders, alongside his old partners Kid Colt and the Outlaw Kid . Later, She-Hulk , after dealing with the Time Variance Authority , is given the chance to free one time-traveling Avenger out of continuity limbo. She chooses the Two-Gun Kid. It's clarified that his heroic nature prevents him from being returned to his own time, as he would inevitably try to fix things. In present time, he learns his previous modern-day encounters with

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748-472: The character appeared sporadically through 1962, with Joe Sinnott being the last artist to draw the original Two-Gun Kid on a regular basis. Two-Gun Kid #60 (Nov. 1962) retconned the Clay Harder character out of existence, turning him into a dime novel character who had inspired the second Two-Gun Kid, Matt Hawk. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby , creators of the Fantastic Four , concocted the new Kid to make

782-399: The character resemble a masked superhero with a secret identity, to stimulate sales for the title. Kirby drew the title for three more issues before passing it off to Dick Ayers . From issue #93 (July 1970) on, Two-Gun Kid was mostly a reprint title. At one point later in the second series, some of the original Clay Harder Kid adventures were retouched to add a mask and make him look like

816-702: The fight against the Skrull invading force in New York City. He was with the Hood when he presented the Scorpion costume to whichever crook impressed him until the party was crashed by Scorpion , who stole the costume. Bushwacker was seen during the Siege of Asgard as part of the Hood crime syndicate. In X-Force : Sex and Violence #2, Bushwacker was seriously injured by Wolverine after an assassination attempt on him and Domino. He

850-512: The five-issue ensemble miniseries Six Guns (#1-4 cover-dated Jan.-March 2012), by writer Andy Diggle and artist Davide Gianfelice, and also starring the extant female mercenary Tarantula and new contemporary versions of the Marvel Old West heroes Tex Dawson a.k.a. the Western Kid ; the Black Rider ; and Matt Slade . Two Gun Kid (comic book) Two Gun Kid is the name of

884-613: The gunfighter Ben Dancer, the character assumes the dual identities of Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid. With his horse Thunder, his partner "Boom Boom" Brown, and a pair of pistols, he becomes one of the West's most prolific heroes, often teaming up with the Rawhide Kid , Kid Colt , or the Phantom Rider . In one of his first adventures, Matt fights an alien , and in other early outings he fights criminals who can only be called supervillains such as

918-554: The incident fell through, the Punisher escaped, and Bushwacker was defeated by S.H.I.E.L.D. operative G. W. Bridge and put back in jail. The Hood has hired him as part of his criminal organization to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Superhuman Registration Act. He helped them fight the New Avengers but was taken down by Doctor Strange. As part of the Hood's gang, he later joins

952-432: The killer. At the same time, Bushwacker's wife Marilyn believed her husband was insane and needed to be placed in a hospital. She sought aid from lawyer Matt Murdock (secretly the hero Daredevil). Bushwacker was tracked down and defeated by the two heroes, which left the right side of his face horribly scarred, and he was placed in police custody. Later, Bushwacker joined with Typhoid Mary and other enemies of Daredevil in

986-618: The mass breakout engineered by Electro . Burbank was subsequently employed by the Jackal to kill the Punisher, but was defeated once again by Daredevil. Following this, Bushwacker created a disturbance in downtown Manhattan and took a woman hostage to lure the Punisher out of hiding and kill him. The Punisher showed up as expected. As it turns out, G.W. Bridge arranged the incident in Times Square with Bushwacker to ambush and capture The Punisher. Although complications arose by an on-site NYPD officer

1020-624: The omnibus series Wild Western #4 (Nov. 1948); the second Two-Gun Kid story in Two-Gun Kid #5 (Dec. 1948), "Guns Blast in Thunder Pass;" and the Two-Gun Kid story in Wild Western #5 (Dec. 1948), while confirming Heath art on the Kid Colt story that same issue. Beginning in 1953, Atlas Comics continued the original Two-Gun Kid series from issue #11, and then continued with Marvel publishing it until cover date April 1977. The Harder version of

1054-626: The outlaw the Panther . During one adventure, he is brought to the present day via time travel and joins the superhero team of the Avengers . He fights alongside them before leaving to wander America alongside his teammate Hawkeye , and eventually returns to his own time, occasionally making a cameo appearance in other Western tales or stories of time travel. The 1995 Two-Gun Kid: Sunset Riders miniseries reveals that Matt had married, only for his wife to die during childbirth; this series also reveals that

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1088-466: The present day as a young man, accompanying Steve Rogers (Captain America) to the home of Halloway's grandson, Jason, to once again bequeath the mask and guns, as well as Halloway's journal, in the hopes that Jason will follow in his grandfather's footsteps. The character appears in the 2010 miniseries Rawhide Kid : The Sensational Seven . A new modern-day version of the character, a teenager, stars in

1122-410: The truth, he allowed Urich to live and to complete the exposé. However, the drug lord managed to bribe himself out of jail. Bushwacker then killed him. Bushwacker was later freed by Deathlok from captivity by Mechadoom, a rogue Doombot variant. Subsequent activities brought him into conflict with Daredevil, Nomad , the Punisher, Boomerang , and Elektra . His clash with Nomad was over the life of

1156-557: Was stabbed with a middle claw to the throat. During the " Civil War II " storyline, Kingpin encounters Bushwacker in San Francisco. During a 2019 storyline in The Immortal Hulk , Bushwacker appeared to be killed when Hulk exploded after being bathed in too much Gamma radiation. Bushwacker's arms and skin had been modified using malleable plastic that appears human, but has transformable biomolecular structure which affords him

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