All-American Comics #102

This October 1948 DC offering puts the Western hero Johnny Thunder front and center as he charges across a wooden bridge on a white horse, riding headlong into a gauntlet of gun-toting outlaws whose pistols are blazing from every angle — a cover by Alex Toth that crackles with kinetic urgency. The story title "The Bridge of Peril!" earns every word, with the surrounding gunmen closing in and muzzle flashes lighting up the scene. Inside, writer John Broome and artist Irwin Hasen (inked by Bob Oksner) deliver the Western action that made All-American Comics a reliable ten-cent thrill.