The Rawhide Kid #29

Two burly outlaws — one holding the Rawhide Kid firm while the other winds up for a punch — think they've got the better of the pint-sized gunfighter, as a frightened woman in red looks on beside a stagecoach and distant riders loom on the horizon. The cover tagline promises that "The Little Guy Laughs Last," which about sums up the odds these thugs are about to discover they miscalculated. Jack Kirby's pencils and Dick Ayers' inks give this August 1962 Marvel western a punchy, kinetic energy that Stan Lee's era of frontier storytelling did so well.