Kid Colt Outlaw #174

Marvel's long-running western series delivers a tense showdown in this 1973 installment, with cover art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers putting Kid Colt square in the crosshairs. The cover drops us into a crowded saloon ambush — Kid Colt stands defiantly in his red shirt and cowboy hat, surrounded by Sam Hawk's gunmen, while a shadowy figure in a dark hat looms in the foreground with a rifle trained on him. With the cover practically daring you to see how the outnumbered outlaw fights his way out of "When Sam Hawk Strikes!", this is classic frontier tension rendered with real punch.