Two Gun Kid #64

Marvel's Two-Gun Kid #64 (1963) delivers exactly what the cover banner promises — "Western action as you like it!" — with Jack Kirby's pencils and Dick Ayers' inks putting the masked Kid toe-to-toe with the downed, defiant Grizzly Grogan amid rocky terrain, while a third gunman lurks in the background taking aim. The speech bubbles crackle with tension: Grogan snarls that the Kid is "a dead man," even as the Kid stands over him fists raised and confident. It's a taut, sun-baked standoff that captures everything appealing about Marvel's Silver Age westerns.