The Rawhide Kid #17

The Rawhide Kid strides front and center on this 1960 Marvel cover — black-clad, yellow-hatted, and guns blazing in a dusty frontier street while townspeople scatter in every direction behind him. Cover art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers crackles with kinetic energy, capturing the Kid mid-draw as a woman in red recoils to his left and a pursuing figure closes in from the background. The cover's own teasers — "Is the Rawhide Kid really a cold-blooded gunman?" and the promise of seeing how the Kid became an outlaw — make this a compelling entry point into one of Marvel's most spirited western series.