Black Diamond Western #57

A tense face-off crackles across this August 1955 cover by Myron Fass: a masked lawman in red and blue, star badge gleaming, squares off against a green-clad villain with a scorpion emblazoned on his back, while bystanders scramble in the dusty frontier street behind them. The speech bubble — "At last we meet, Scorpion!" — captures that satisfying moment of a long-awaited showdown. Lev Gleason's Black Diamond Western #57 delivers exactly the kind of charged Western atmosphere that made this series a ten-cent staple of mid-fifties newsstands.