Black Diamond Western #14

This August 1949 issue from Lev Gleason Publications sets up a tense Main Street showdown, with cover art by Charles Biro depicting Black Diamond on foot facing down a menacing mustachioed gunman on horseback outside a saloon — speech bubbles warning that the mounted villain is "the deadliest shot in the West." Packed with a full 52 pages of illustrated stories, including "The Faro Kid," there's plenty of frontier action to back up that dramatic cover promise. It's a fine example of late-1940s Western comics at their most charged and character-driven.