The Rawhide Kid #131

The Rawhide Kid thunders front and center on this 1976 Marvel Western, with the Kid charging full gallop on a dark horse, pistol raised high as arrows fly all around him and a chaotic cavalry-and-riders melee erupts in the fiery red background behind him. Dick Ayers and Herb Trimpe deliver a kinetic cover that makes the story title — "Massacre at Medicine Bend" — feel every bit as urgent as it sounds. With Gary Friedrich and Denny O'Neil on writing duties and Dick Ayers penciling the interiors, this is mid-1970s frontier action firing on all cylinders.