Kid Colt Outlaw #101

This November 1961 Marvel western puts Kid Colt right in the thick of it — the cover by Jack Kirby and George Klein depicts the red-jacketed gunslinger bursting through a doorway, guns blazing, crashing a courtroom where Jesse James presides as judge and a crowd of notorious outlaws — the Youngers, the Daltons, Jim Dancer, and Johnny Ringo — are ready to draw. The cover's speech balloons snap with tension, teasing a story where Kid Colt rides straight into a town stacked entirely against him, with Marshal Sam Hawk's fate hanging in the balance. Stan Lee, Dick Ayers, and the rest of the creative team deliver a wild premise that makes this ten-cent issue hard to put down before you've even opened the cover.