Black Fury #38

Against a stormy sky crackled with lightning, the magnificent dark stallion Black Fury rears at the edge of a sandy precipice, his young rider clinging on as hostile warriors close in from both sides — and a speech balloon makes the desperate stakes unmistakably clear: "Now stallion… plunge to your doom and take our enemy with you!" Dick Giordano's dynamic cover art for this October 1962 Charlton issue captures the raw tension between loyalty and danger that made this horse-adventure series so compelling. With Joe Gill writing and Rocke Mastroserio on interior art, "Valley of Death" promises exactly the kind of pulse-quickening western drama the title reliably delivered.