Kid Colt Outlaw #83

Marvel's long-running Western series delivers real tension with issue #83, cover-penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Christopher Rule — and the cover makes an immediate impression. Kid Colt is shown flat on his back across a wooden floor, injured arm in a sling and his hat knocked aside, with two gun-wielding figures closing in from opposite sides as one declares, "This is the end of the trail, kid — you haven't a chance!" The story promised inside, "The Capture of Kid Colt!," suggests the frontier's most wanted outlaw has finally been cornered, making this 1959 ten-cent issue hard to put back on the rack.