Black Diamond Western #44

This April 1953 issue of Black Diamond Western puts the masked hero front and center — literally — as the cover's split-panel scene captures him mid-brawl outside the Bankville Bank, trading punches with outlaws while a terrified cashier cries "Don't shoot!" on one side and Black Diamond delivers swift frontier justice on the other. Dick Rockwell's pencils and inks give the action a punchy, kinetic energy that lives up to the book's self-proclaimed "fast-action western" billing. Three feature-length Black Diamond stories are promised inside, plus the results of the Giant Gleason-Biro-Wood Contest with 22 big prizes — plenty of reasons to ride along for this one.