Cowboy Western #63

Charlton's Cowboy Western #63 ties the Wild West to the living room with its "All New Official TV Show" banner, spotlighting Wild Bill Hickok and his partner Jingles in a sun-baked frontier setting. The cover, penciled and inked by Maurice Whitman, puts a confident, fringed-jacketed Hickok front and center — revolver in hand, white hat tumbling through the air — while a "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster for José Gill ($1,000.00) looms on the right and a rifle-toting figure lurks in the background. At a dime a copy in 1957, this is a crisp snapshot of Western adventure when the genre ruled both comics racks and television screens.