Kid Colt #2

From 1948, this early Marvel western puts Kid Colt front and center in a frantic, dust-kicking scene: the red-coated hero shields a wide-eyed blonde woman while gunfire erupts around them and mounted riders charge through the background. The cover — penciled by Syd Shores and inked by George Klein — packs in real drama and motion, teasing the featured story "The Gunfighter and the Girl!" with interior art by Russ Heath. A fine slice of postwar frontier storytelling that shows Marvel's western titles were firing on all cylinders right from the start.