Kid Colt Outlaw #90

This 1960 Marvel western puts Kid Colt in a tight spot — the cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers shows the young outlaw locked behind jail bars, pleading his innocence to a star-badged sheriff while a crowd of armed, hard-looking men press in from outside, with speech bubbles making clear that not everyone in town wants him to walk out alive. The teaser "Wanted!! Dead or Alive!" splashed across the cover raises the stakes perfectly, hinting that the Kid's luck may finally be running out. With Stan Lee writing and Jack Keller on interior art, issue #90 is a solid slice of Marvel's mid-century Western storytelling at its most tension-packed.