The Western Kid #5

The Western Kid charges into the thick of a desperate brawl on this August 1972 Marvel cover, penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Joe Sinnott — and the energy leaps right off the page. The Kid, clad in yellow and blue, throws a fierce punch while his loyal white wolf lunges at one attacker, a rearing black horse adds to the chaos, and a frightened blonde woman is caught in the melee with outlaws closing in from every side. That cover blurb — "Trapped by the Man Called Drago!" — promises the kind of high-stakes frontier danger that made Marvel Westerns such a compelling corner of early-'70s comics.