Kid Colt Outlaw #16

Promise of "The Old Wild West as it Really Was!" sets the tone for this 1951 Marvel Western, with cover art by Joe Maneely dropping readers right into the thick of a canyon ambush. Kid Colt crouches in the foreground with pistol drawn, his hat knocked clear off, while pursuers on horseback press in from the ridge above and a riderless horse tumbles dramatically down the rocky slope — the speech bubble warning "This'll be the end of Kid Colt!" making the stakes unmistakably clear. With interior art by Pete Tumlinson and a story from Leon Lazarus titled "No Time To Die," this ten-cent adventure delivers exactly the blazing frontier action its cover promises.