Kid Colt Outlaw #177

Marvel's long-running western series rides into December 1973 with this action-packed installment, promising answers to two burning questions right on the cover: "What Was the Mystery of the Missing Mustang?" and "Who Is the Phantom Raider?" Sol Brodsky's cover art crackles with frontier tension — Kid Colt, guns blazing in his signature red vest, squares off against multiple armed opponents mid-brawl, while the imposing masked face of the Phantom Raider looms large in the foreground. With Al Hartley writing and Jack Keller on art and inks, this 20-cent issue delivers the kind of rootin'-tootin' mystery that made Kid Colt Outlaw a staple of Marvel's western line.