Kid Colt Outlaw #18

From the golden age of Atlas western comics comes this January 1952 entry in the long-running series, with a cover by George Tuska that puts the action front and center: Kid Colt, in his signature red shirt and white hat, levels a smoking six-gun at a desperate opponent who scrambles backward across a sun-baked desert landscape, a rifle knocked to the ground between them and saguaro cacti rising in the background. The banner promises "Death on Jericho Trail," setting a suitably tense mood for what lies inside, with Leon Lazarus writing and Pete Tumlinson on art duties. At just a dime, this was exactly the kind of "Blazing Adventures of the Wild West" that kept young readers coming back month after month.