Kid Colt Outlaw #185

Marvel's long-running western series takes a sharp turn in this 1974 issue as Kid Colt rides his horse through the crowded streets of New York City, surrounded by police officers, panicked bystanders, and a gun-toting villain in the foreground who sneers that the Kid has finally met his match. The cover — penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Dick Ayers — crackles with urban tension as Kid Colt wrestles with the dilemma of firing into a crowd of innocents while a big-city criminal holds all the cards on his home turf. "The Kid Goes East" promises exactly the kind of fish-out-of-water showdown that makes this clash of frontier grit and city cunning so hard to put down.