The Rawhide Kid #27

This April 1962 Marvel Western finds the Rawhide Kid's name invoked as a warning on the cover of issue #27, where a tense standoff plays out in vivid detail — a hatted gunman is seized by Apache warriors while a young woman kneels bound nearby, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers as defiant words fly between captor and captive. Jack Kirby's pencils and Dick Ayers' inks bring real energy to the scene, staging "The Girl, the Gunman, and the Apaches!!" with the kind of bold, confident linework that made Marvel's early-'60s Westerns so appealing. Stan Lee's storytelling sensibility and a strong creative team round out what promises to be a genuinely gripping frontier adventure.