Kid Colt Outlaw #113

The cover of Kid Colt Outlaw #113 drops you right into the chaos of a Wild West ambush, with Kid Colt in his orange outfit and white hat caught in a hail of gunfire as a gang of outlaws closes in, while in the extreme foreground a menacing figure — presumably Bull Barton himself — thrusts a revolver directly at the reader. Don Heck's cover art gives the scene a real sense of danger and depth, from the speech bubble cry of "It's Kid Colt! Let 'im have it!" to the bodies sprawled across the dusty boardwalk behind our outnumbered hero. With Stan Lee writing and Jack Keller on interior art, this 1963 Marvel Western delivers exactly the kind of high-stakes frontier showdown the title promises in "The Revenge of Bull Barton!