Black Rider #14

A full 52 pages of Western action await in this 1951 Marvel entry, with cover art by Al Hartley putting the Black Rider front and center — masked, caped, and charging on his white horse with pistol drawn amid a chaotic battle scene. Bystanders scramble behind a barricade while mounted riders clash in the background, and the cover's speech balloons set the stakes perfectly: all of Texas hangs in the balance against a tyrannical "Mad Butcher." The headlining story, "The Tyrant of Texas," promises the Black Rider's greatest adventure, backed by interior work from writer Robert Bernstein and artist Joe Maneely making this an especially rich package for fans of Golden Age Western comics.