Black Fury #41

The cover of this 1963 Charlton issue tells the tension in a single charged image: the powerful black stallion Black Fury rears up wild-eyed and dangerous while a cowboy backs away in alarm and a kneeling figure in a headband reaches toward scattered herbs on the ground — the speech bubbles making the scheme unmistakably clear. Dick Giordano's cover art captures the drama of a horse refusing to be broken, set against the stark desert Southwest backdrop with a bold "NIGHTMARE" tagline anchoring the scene. With Joe Gill writing and Rocco Mastroserio on interior art, Black Fury #41 promises the kind of straightforward, spirited Western storytelling that made Charlton's horse comics a reliable read for fans of the range.