Black Diamond Western #13

Charles Biro's cover for this July 1949 issue pulls you straight into frontier tension — Black Diamond races on horseback to reach a besieged platoon of U.S. soldiers before it's too late, while those soldiers take cover behind barrels and brace themselves as a large force of Sioux warriors closes in from across the plain. With 52 full pages of illustrated stories inside, including "The Buffalo War!", this Lev Gleason title delivers the kind of high-stakes Western adventure that made the genre so compelling in the late 1940s.