Gunsmoke Western #65

Politics and gunplay collide on Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers's cover for this July 1961 ten-cent treat, where Kid Colt, Outlaw stands front and center in a full-blown street brawl, pistols blazing skyward amid a crowd of brawling townsfolk clutching rival campaign signs for "John Spade" and "Big Ben Brawn" — with the Tombstone Saloon looming in the background. The cover story, "Guns Talk in Tombstone!," promises exactly the kind of rowdy frontier chaos splashed across every inch of that image, written by Stan Lee with art by Jack Keller and colors by Stan Goldberg.