Two Gun Kid #13

A dusty frontier brawl erupts across this 1954 Atlas cover by Russ Heath, where the blond-haired Two-Gun Kid crouches in the thick of a street gunfight — pistols blazing against an armed outlaw in purple trousers while a rearing horse and mounted attacker press in from behind, and a masked figure watches from an upper balcony. The tagline "The Fastest Gunman in the Wild West!" sets the stakes perfectly for a story titled "Flamenco, the Killer Badman," promising the kind of sharp-shooting action that made Two-Gun Kid one of Atlas's most dependable Western titles. Heath's crisp linework and kinetic composition make this ten-cent issue a vivid snapshot of 1954 frontier adventure at its most energetic.