The Ringo Kid #7

The Ringo Kid comes out blazing on this January 1971 Marvel western, with cover art by Herb Trimpe placing the masked, black-clad hero at the center of a sprawling saloon brawl — guns drawn, enemies flying off the balcony railings in every direction as desperate men shout warnings about a hidden treasure. The cover copy teases "The Terrible Treasure of Vista del Oro!" and promises as much action and deadly mystery as you can stand, and judging by the chaos unfolding across every inch of this cover, that's quite a lot. For fans of frontier adventure, this 15-cent issue delivers the kind of kinetic, larger-than-life western energy that made Marvel's genre titles genuinely fun in the early '70s.