Billy the Kid #34

Charlton's Billy the Kid: Western Outlaw #34 puts the Kid right in the thick of it — the cover shows him grappling with a dark-suited villain outside what appears to be a jailhouse doorway, while a second gunman stands ready behind him and an armed figure in the foreground levels weapons straight at the scene. The posted notice promises a story called "Lynch Mob," with the ominous tagline "First they framed him! Then they tried to rush the law..." setting a tense frontier mood. Cover pencils by Charles Nicholas and inks by Vince Alascia give the confrontation a sharp, kinetic energy that captures Charlton's no-nonsense Western style at its 1962 best.