The Rawhide Kid #113

The Rawhide Kid stands center stage on this July 1973 Marvel cover, hands deliberately away from the pistols at his hips as chaos erupts around him — armed men close in from the left while another scrambles for cover to his right. A bystander shouts "Grab the gun, Kid!" but the Kid's own speech bubble makes his stance clear: "I'll never fire my guns again!" — a dramatic moral dilemma brought vividly to life through Larry Lieber's pencils and inks, finished by George Roussos. Titled "A Gunman No More!", this issue promises one of the more compelling internal conflicts a Western hero can face, all packed into a crisp 20-cent package.