The Rawhide Kid #101

Marvel's long-running frontier hero faces a genuinely dangerous adversary on this 1972 cover by Gil Kane — a menacing gunfighter in a red coat and black hat grapples with the Rawhide Kid in a rocky cave setting, while armed figures clash in the background by torchlight. The villain's chilling boast says it all: "Killin' you don't bother me none, Kid, 'cause… I shot Jesse James!" Kane's dynamic composition captures two fighters locked in close-quarters combat, pistols and blades flying, with real urgency in every line. Gary Friedrich and Dick Ayers deliver "Blazing Western Action As You Like It" — and this issue looks like they mean it.