Two Gun Kid #84

The cover of this 1966 Marvel Western says it all — the masked, black-clad Two-Gun Kid recoils in a dusty frontier street as an opponent in red and green shoots one of his revolvers clean out of his hand, with onlookers scattered in the background bearing witness to the shocking spectacle. Dick Ayers's cover art sells the drama with confident linework, framing that bold challenge: "The Two-Gun Kid — Defeated!" Inside, the story promises an encounter with a dangerous new threat known only as Gunslammer. It's a fine slice of Marvel's 1966 Western lineup, full of frontier tension and the kind of action that made Two-Gun Kid one of the genre's most reliable rides.