Kid Colt Outlaw #28

Kid Colt dominates this June 1953 Atlas cover, his bullet-creased hat and leveled six-gun filling the foreground as a chaotic shootout erupts behind him — armed figures in a dusty frontier setting making clear that trouble follows this outlaw wherever he rides. Sol Brodsky's cover art captures that gritty, kinetic energy that made Atlas westerns so appealing, with Kid Colt's steely expression conveying a man who never backs down. Inside, Jack Keller illustrates three tales including "The Lady and the Outlaw!" — all promising the "blazing adventures of the Wild West" the cover so confidently advertises.