Two Gun Kid #16

Two-Gun Kid lives up to his billing as "The Wildest Cowboy in the Wild West" on this September 1954 cover by Joe Maneely, which finds the blond-haired Kid blazing away with both pistols while surrounded by a crowd of armed outlaws — a chaotic saloon brawl spilling into a full-scale gunfight outside, complete with riders and stampeding cattle in the background. The sheer energy of Maneely's linework — bodies tumbling, guns firing, shadows looming — makes this one of the more kinetic covers of the series, perfectly teasing the interior story titled "Trapped." At just a dime a month, this was exactly the kind of pulse-pounding Western action that kept fans coming back issue after issue.