Billy the Kid #9

Charlton's Billy the Kid Western Outlaw #9 from 1957 packs four tales into one dime-priced package — "The Water God," "The Terrible Tenderfoot," "Señor Kid's Revenge," and "Happy Jack." The cover, penciled by Dick Giordano and inked by Vince Alascia, puts Billy front and center in a crouching, ready-for-action pose: red vest, yellow gloves, pistol leveled and a confident smirk under his brown hat, casting a long shadow across the desert ground. It's a clean, confident piece of Western art that captures the scrappy energy Charlton brought to its frontier line throughout the 1950s.