Two Gun Kid #52

Two-Gun Kid #52 brings the tension of the Old West frontier to a fever pitch, with Jack Kirby's pencils and Steve Ditko's inks delivering a taut standoff between the masked Kid and the confident, wide-stance gunfighter known as Lightnin' Lawson — their duel staged in an arena packed with spectators, the stakes declared right on the cover with "This is the END of the Two-Gun Kid!" A second strip tease along the bottom promises further frontier action as armed warriors mass for "The Apaches Strike!" Stan Lee scripts the interior alongside artist John Severin, with colors by Stan Goldberg and lettering by Artie Simek, making this 1960 ten-cent issue a genuinely well-crafted package of Western adventure.