Billy the Kid #138

This late-run Charlton Western sets a genuinely evocative mood with John Severin's striking cover — a bold silhouette of mounted and standing cowboys, horses, and a dog set against a blazing red-and-orange sunset sky, with a thin wisp of smoke curling upward between them. The stark, shadowy composition feels perfectly matched to the story title "Killers In The Shadows," hinting at tension lurking beneath the wide-open frontier atmosphere. With Joe Gill writing and Warren Sattler on art, this 1980 issue delivers the kind of reliable Western storytelling Charlton fans appreciated.