Black Fury #40

The magnificent black stallion Black Fury rears up in full fury on this striking 1963 Charlton cover by Dick Giordano, hooves raised against a stunned homesteader clutching a rifle while a woman shields what appears to be a child behind her. The cover teaser — "Why would Black Fury, always a friend of good people, suddenly attack a homesteader and his helpless family?" — sets up a genuinely compelling mystery that pulls you straight into the featured story, "Wild Fury." With interior work by writer Joe Gill and artist Rocco Mastroserio, this issue delivers the kind of frontier drama that made Charlton's western titles a reliable twelve-cent thrill.