Black Fury #19

This 1959 Charlton title delivers genuine tension right on its cover, with cover art by E. H. Hart showing a frightened boy crying "Help, Dad!" as he stumbles toward a bubbling, steam-rising poison spring — while a massive, alarmed face looms in the foreground and the dark silhouette of Black Fury the horse lurks behind. The cover copy poses the unsettling question of why Black Fury would push a child toward those murky, steaming waters, making "Poison Valley" a story that demands to be read. At a dime a copy, this is vintage Western comics drama — the kind Charlton delivered reliably throughout the late 1950s.