Cheyenne Kid #53

The cover of this 1965 Charlton Western crackles with tension as a war-painted warrior — Red Eagle, per the cover text — comes screaming down on horseback, letting out a fierce battle cry while Cheyenne Kid holds his ground in the foreground, revolver raised. The tagline promises a brutal confrontation: "Blood Feud!" — with Red Eagle descending from the hills to wage war on the U.S. Cavalry and Cheyenne facing his old foe in a battle to the death. Cover art by Pat Masulli and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio gives the scene a raw, kinetic energy that made Charlton's Western titles a reliable twelve-cent thrill in the mid-1960s.