Two Gun Kid #104

The Two-Gun Kid finds himself in a desperate spot on John Severin's cover for this 1972 Marvel western — both his revolvers clicking empty as a sneering, red-suited villain levels a gun at him and taunts him to meet his maker, while bystanders scramble and a body lies sprawled in the foreground. It's a beautifully composed moment of maximum tension, with Severin's crisp linework capturing the chaos of a showdown gone suddenly, dangerously wrong. "Gunfight at Gila Rock!" promises exactly the kind of gritty frontier drama that made Two-Gun Kid one of Marvel's most dependable western titles.