Kid Colt Outlaw #38

From the golden age of Atlas-era Westerns comes this 1954 entry in Marvel's long-running frontier series, with a cover by Sol Brodsky and Carl Burgos that drops you right into the thick of the action. Kid Colt — blond, red-jacketed, and grimly determined — is locked in a desperate brawl beneath a gnarled tree, grappling hand-to-hand with one opponent while a knife-wielding figure in a dark hat looms close and an older, bearded man scrambles in the chaos nearby; a pinto horse rears in the background as yet another gunman lurks at the edge of the scene. With interior art by Jack Keller and a story called "The Flaming Arrow," this issue captures everything that made Kid Colt Outlaw a staple of 1954 newsstands — fast action, colorful villainy, and a hero who never backs down.