Kid Colt Outlaw #26

Atlas Comics' "Blazing Adventures of the Wild West" series delivers high-octane frontier tension in this 1953 installment, with a cover by Sol Brodsky that puts Kid Colt — blond, red-jacketed, and defiant — in a desperate barn brawl, pinned down yet still gripping his revolver while a villainous figure raises a hatchet overhead and a gunman closes in from behind. Kid Colt's gritty cover declaration — "You may kill me, Coyote…but I shore as shootin' ain't dyin' ALONE!" — sets a feisty, outnumbered tone that perfectly suits the issue's interior story, "Terror of Tarantula Flats!" Inside, writer Leon Lazarus and artist Jack Keller carry that rough-and-tumble Wild West energy through every page.