Cheyenne Kid #36

Three figures face off around a crackling campfire while a crowd of warriors watches from the shadows — the war-marked Sioux chieftain Bluehead lunges forward with a knife, a suited white negotiator backs away in alarm, and Cheyenne Kid squares up bare-chested and ready to fight. Jack Keller's cover sets the stakes immediately: a treaty has collapsed, and only a desperate showdown can settle what diplomacy could not. Charlton's long-running Western series is in fine form with this 1962 issue, which also features the interior story "The Klowas' Fort," written by Joe Gill.