Kid Colt Outlaw #65

Kid Colt rides hard on his black horse, rifle in hand, bursting across a rocky mesa ledge while armed pursuers on horseback close in through a haze of gunsmoke behind him — it's a cover by Joe Maneely that crackles with open-range tension. The bold cover copy poses the challenge: can the Kid outride "The Wolf Pack"? Atlas Comics' 1956 western series was delivering exactly the kind of dust-and-danger storytelling that made Kid Colt Outlaw a staple of the genre, and this issue — promising a "Show-Down in Smoke Mesa!" — looks like no exception.