Two Gun Kid #23

This May 1955 Atlas Comics Western delivers "all brand-new Two-Gun Kid tales," including the highlighted story "Trouble Trail." Russ Heath's cover art puts the Kid front and center on his knees in the desert dirt, shirt torn open and hands gripping a rope attached to a coiled rattlesnake — while a menacing figure in a red hat looms behind him holding the other end of the line, with dark birds circling overhead near a "Water Hole" sign. It's a tense, sun-baked scene that captures the gritty frontier atmosphere Atlas Western fans came to love, and the promise of a second tale, "The Man Who Returned," makes this a particularly packed ten-cent package.