Black Diamond Western #56

A masked frontier hero in a red outfit and blue neckerchief squares off against a shifty-looking schemer before a crowd of skeptical townspeople in this June 1955 issue of Black Diamond Western. The cover, penciled and inked by Myron Fass, crackles with small-town tension — speech bubbles flying as the hero urges the crowd to "investigate before you invest" while his opponent tries to shout him down with cries of "Boo!" — all tied to the interior tale "Gold Fever." At just a dime, this Lev Gleason production delivers the kind of sun-baked Western drama that made the genre irresistible to mid-1950s readers.