Black Fury #26

The fierce black stallion Black Fury rears up defiantly on this September 1960 Charlton cover, his broken chain still dangling as he faces down three snarling wolves — one perched atop a rocky outcrop, two more closing in from below — in a tense, beautifully rendered standoff by cover artist Ernie Hart. The cover promises three stories inside, including "Enemies Three," "The Witness," and "The Rocking Chair Cowboy," with Joe Gill writing and Rocco Mastroserio on art. For a dime, this issue delivers the kind of wild, untamed adventure that made Black Fury one of Charlton's most appealing animal heroes of the era.