Kid Colt Outlaw #175

Marvel's long-running frontier saga delivers a genuinely tense moment in this October 1973 issue, as Kid Colt finds himself surrounded and outnumbered aboard what appears to be a riverboat. The cover — penciled by Jack Kirby and Marie Severin and inked by Dick Ayers and Marie Severin — captures the cowboy hero cornered from all sides, multiple gun barrels trained on him while a bearded figure in a captain's hat looks on, with Kid Colt himself crying out that the Barracuda's men are everywhere. It's a snapshot of old West action with a nautical twist that makes this story, "At the Mercy of the Barracuda!," a fun standout in the series.