Billy the Kid #148

Charlton's long-running western series charges into 1982 with issue #148, "El Chivito Strikes Again," brought to life by writer Joe Gill and artist José Delbo. Delbo's cover captures a tense, kinetic moment — a dark-hatted figure in a yellow shirt reaches urgently toward a rearing paint horse, while a young blond rider in red struggles to keep control of the wild-eyed animal. It's the kind of frontier drama that made Billy the Kid a reliable staple of Charlton's western lineup for so many years.