The Rawhide Kid #134

Something's gone very wrong in the Wild West — the cover of Rawhide Kid #134 (July 1976) drops us into a tense saloon standoff where the Kid, dressed in a striking blue uniform, faces down a commanding, top-hatted figure in red who barks orders at him while bystanders look on in stunned disbelief. Jack Kirby's pencils and Dick Ayers' inks give the scene real dramatic weight, with the speech bubbles promising that the Rawhide Kid is taking orders from a killer — something onlookers can hardly believe. Promising "mystery and action" with "The Kid Goes Wild," this issue delivers the kind of blazing western tension that made Marvel's frontier titles a genuine treat in the mid-'70s.