Black Diamond Western #48

Charles Biro's cover for this December 1953 issue of Black Diamond Western crackles with frontier chaos — a masked figure tumbles off a saloon balcony, two gunfighters scramble behind cover on a dynamite-laden wagon, and the speech balloons practically shout warnings over the mayhem. With three full-length stories starring Black Diamond, Buck Roper, and Red Fire packed inside, this is exactly the kind of fast-paced Western anthology that made Lev Gleason's line a staple of the early '50s comics rack.