The Rawhide Kid #23

The Rawhide Kid finds himself hopelessly outnumbered on this Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover, where the young gunfighter is surrounded by a gang of hard-edged outlaws in a wild saloon brawl — a table splintering, hats flying, and a hanging lamp swaying as fists and bodies collide in every direction. The cover blurb warns that "a whole town trembles" when the Kid has "no place to hide," which perfectly captures the desperate, kinetic energy Kirby packs into every corner of the image. With Stan Lee writing and Kirby at the peak of his Western storytelling in 1961, this ten-cent issue delivers the kind of rough-and-tumble frontier action that made Rawhide Kid one of Marvel's most exciting Western titles.