The Rawhide Kid #135

Marvel's long-running Western series delivers a tense standoff in this September 1976 issue, as the Rawhide Kid — mounted on horseback and facing three armed gunmen in a dusty frontier street — coolly declares that they're the ones outnumbered. The cover teases that behind those three opponents lurks an even bigger threat: "The Gunmen of Sundown City," promising this is only Part 1 of the trouble ahead. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby with inks by Dick Ayers and Mike Esposito give the scene a gritty, dynamic energy that feels right at home in Marvel's tradition of blazing Western action.