Bill Boyd Western #12

From Fawcett's dependable line of Western comics comes this March 1951 issue of Bill Boyd Western, featuring the story "Deputy for a Day" — and the cover delivers exactly the kind of frontier action the title promises. Bill Boyd is front and center in a dusty main-street brawl, lassoing a rearing horse while a bandit clutching a gold sack gets unhorsed mid-escape, with a bank visible in the background making the stakes crystal clear. Max Elkan's linework keeps the chaos tight and kinetic, and the cover blurb sets up a tantalizing premise: anything can happen in twenty-four hours when the two-gun wanderer of the prairies agrees to serve as Deputy of Tornado Gulch.