The Rawhide Kid #25

The December 1961 cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers tells you everything you need to know about the threat level here — a masked outlaw known as the Bat bursts through the wall of the Osage Bank on horseback, guns blazing and a money bag in hand, while townspeople scatter in panic. The Rawhide Kid stands his ground in the foreground, bracing for what the cover copy bills as a shoot-out showdown, even as bystanders doubt he can stop this daring bandit. Stan Lee and Kirby bring their kinetic energy to the frontier, making this a wild, dust-kicking slice of Marvel's early-'60s Western output.