Kid Colt Outlaw #17

Right in the thick of the action, Joe Maneely's cover for this 1951 Atlas western drops Kid Colt into a chaotic saloon standoff — red-shirted, blue-jeaned, and cool under pressure as two enemy revolvers are leveled at him from the foreground while bodies and broken glass litter the bar behind him. The bold cover blurb "Trapped by the Posse!" sets a tense, desperate tone perfectly suited to a frontier outlaw's hard-riding life. Inside, writer Leon Lazarus and artist Pete Tumlinson deliver "Flaming Guns," promising exactly the kind of blazing Wild West adventure this series was built on.