Kid Colt Outlaw #102

Silver City has never looked more unsettling than on this January 1962 cover by Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky, where Kid Colt — decked out in his red jacket and cow-spotted vest, pistol drawn — squares off against a glowing, translucent gunfighter who taunts him that "bullets won't stop a ghost!" The spectral figure looms out of a swirling haze against a darkened frontier townscape, making for a genuinely eerie showdown that pushes the Western genre into stranger territory. With Stan Lee writing and Jack Keller on art inside, this ten-cent issue delivers the kind of wild, genre-blending adventure that made Kid Colt Outlaw one of Marvel's most entertaining Western titles of the era.