Billy the Kid #136

Charlton's long-running western series charges into issue #136 with a cover by John Severin that lays out the action in comic-strip panels: Billy brawls hand-to-hand with a pair of rough-looking cowboys near a stand of trees, and the bottom tier delivers a sharp rifle shot — "POW" — as he turns his attention to the next opponent. Inside, Joe Gill scripts and Warren Sattler illustrates "Stampede!," promising the kind of hard-riding frontier adventure that kept this series going strong into 1980.