The Rawhide Kid #40

Two of Marvel's most celebrated Western gunslingers square off in this 1964 showdown — the cover by Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky captures the Rawhide Kid leaping dynamically from a tree, pistol drawn, while the masked Two-Gun Kid stands his ground with weapons raised in a tense face-to-face standoff. The bold cover copy proudly declares them "together for the very first time," making this a meeting fans of Marvel's frontier heroes had been waiting for. Stan Lee and Dick Ayers deliver the story behind one of the most charged Western covers of the Marvel Age.