The Rawhide Kid #103

Marvel's "Blazing Western Action As You Like It!" banner says it all for this September 1972 issue, as the Rawhide Kid finds himself in desperate straits on a cover penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Vince Colletta. The Kid — red-haired and clad in his signature blue outfit — is shown scrambling across rocky terrain while striped-uniformed figures press in from above and a riderless horse rears in the background, guns blazing in the chaos. With the story title "The Town Tyrant!" promising some serious frontier conflict, Larry Lieber handles both the writing and interior art, with inks by Geo. Roussos, making this a compact, well-crafted package of Western adventure.