Billy the Kid #37

Charlton's Billy the Kid: Western Outlaw #37 puts the young gunslinger front and center in a tense, mid-action pose — pistol blazing, muzzle flash lighting up the desert backdrop — as the cover teases a tale of betrayal involving a father figure named Sam Jackson and a villainous bushwhacker called Monk. Dick Giordano's clean, confident linework gives Billy a youthful but steely energy that fits perfectly with the "Mark of the Gunman" story hook splashed across the cover. At just 12 cents in 1962, this Charlton offering delivers that sun-baked frontier atmosphere that made the Western genre so compelling.