Two Gun Kid #56

Two-Gun Kid strides boldly toward the reader on this October 1960 cover — black hat, dark outfit, and spurs gleaming — while a ring of armed outlaws closes in behind him, one of them shouting "Now's our chance!! Get the Kid!!" Jack Kirby's pencils and Dick Ayers' inks give the scene real tension, with a colorful crowd of gunslingers framing the Kid against a dusty frontier town backdrop. The issue promises "A Thrill-a-Minute Epic in Two Blazing Chapters" with "The Terrible Revenge of the Two-Gun Kid," plus a second tale teased as "Guns Bark in Boontown!" — a fine double-feature from a creative team that includes Stan Lee, John Severin, Stan Goldberg, and Artie Simek.