Black Rider #18

From Atlas Comics' January 1952 western line comes Black Rider #18, with a cover by Carl Hubbell and Christopher Rule that drops you right into the chaos. The masked Black Rider stands boldly at the center of a burning, collapsing ferry, guns drawn against a gang of outlaws, while rushing white water churns beneath the vessel and mounted riders close in from the rocky bluffs above. The cover's featured story, "Death and the Black Rider Cross 'The Ferry at Killer's Creek!'", promises exactly the kind of desperate, pulse-raising action that made Atlas westerns such a satisfying ten-cent thrill in 1952.