The Western Kid #2

Marvel's frontier action series heats up in this 1972 installment, with a tense street confrontation rendered by cover artist John Severin — a young woman in yellow desperately deflects a flaming torch as a gunman warns her she's just "signed the Kid's death warrant," while a cold-eyed villain in a green shirt levels his revolver from the foreground. The tagline "Showdown with a Killer!" and a small vignette of a rider on horseback in the corner set the stakes perfectly for a tale titled "This Is — a Gun!" Inside, John Romita handles both pencils and inks, bringing that signature Marvel energy to the wide-open West.