The Rawhide Kid #123

Marvel's long-running western series delivers a tense, street-level showdown in this 1974 installment, with the cover by Larry Lieber and Mike Esposito throwing the Rawhide Kid into a desperate scramble across a dusty town street. His hat has been shot clean off his red hair as armed outlaws close in from multiple directions — one bearing down from the left, another lurking on a rooftop — while a revolver lies just out of reach on the ground below his lunging, outstretched hand. The defiant exchange in the word balloons ("You'll never reach your gun — alive!" / "Then I'll reach it dead — 'cause I'm not givin' up!") captures everything fans love about this scrappy frontier hero.