Apache Kid #5

The West's Most Mysterious Warrior!" — and Werner Roth's cover for this 1951 Marvel title makes that tagline feel earned. Apache Kid charges a dark horse off a towering mesa and into churning water below, while a figure tumbles from the clifftop and mounted riders pursue along the ridge, the whole scene crackling with frontier urgency. The cover teaser — "Indian or White Man?" — hints at the dual-identity tension at the heart of this "Uprising" issue, making it a compelling snapshot of early-'50s Western comics at their most adventurous.