The Rawhide Kid #108

Marvel's long-running Western series delivers the heat with this 1973 entry, as the cover — penciled by Larry Lieber and inked by Herb Trimpe — drops the Rawhide Kid flat on his back in the desert, a knife-wielding warrior lunging down at him with a menacing declaration: "The battle is ended! And with it — your life!" A crowd of onlookers surrounds the two combatants against a backdrop of sun-baked mesas, making the stakes feel genuinely dire. The cover's urgent tagline, "Can the Kid Escape… Death in the Desert?", sets up "Desert Fury!" as a tense, hard-fought battle for survival under the open Western sky.