The Rawhide Kid #136

Marvel's long-running Western series delivers a genuinely thrilling cover in this 1976 installment, with Jack Kirby's pencils and Dick Ayers' inks putting the Rawhide Kid front and center — diving headlong through a chaotic mid-air shootout, guns blazing, while the colorful members of the Black Jack Bordon Gang close in from every direction around him. The cover's dramatic bird's-eye angle captures the Kid's daring agility against impossible odds, with rifles, revolvers, and muzzle flashes filling every corner of the composition. Promising "blazing Western action as you like it," this issue sets up the treachery of Blackjack Bordon in Chapter One of what looks to be one of the Kid's most formidable showdowns yet.