Issue(s): Marvel Tales #100 (Hawkeye & Two-Gun Kid story only)
Cover Date: Feb 79
Title: "Killers of a Purple Rage!"
Credits:
Scott Edelman - Writer
Mike Nasser - Penciler
Terry Austin - Inker

Review/plot:
This is a six page story where Hawkeye and the Two-Gun Kid stumble into the Purple Man's lair, and are forced to fight each other.

They manage to get out of his control thanks to Two-Gun's horse.

After defeating the Purple Man, Two-Gun rightly asks how they can be sure they've defeated him and not just been mind-controlled into thinking so. Hawkeye's response is unsatisfactory.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: A footnote places this before Daredevil #147 and Avengers #161.

References:

• The Two-Gun kid came to the modern time period in Avengers #147.
  
• The Purple Man last appeared and was presumed dead in Daredevil #89.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

This story was first announced in FOOM#15(9/76) with Klaus Janson as the artist.

I don't know much about Mike Nasser. Nice art.

The title of this story is a play on Zane Grey's classic Western novel "Riders of the Purple Sage".