Crack Western #76

This January 1952 Quality Comics entry puts Arizona Raines front and center in "Stagecoach to Oblivion!" — and Reed Crandall's cover work makes every second of the action feel urgent and alive. A masked, bandana-wearing outlaw on horseback lunges toward a speeding Express Co. stagecoach, pistol raised, while a blonde woman and a dark-haired man inside the coach scramble desperately as a gunman atop the coach takes aim. It's a full-throttle Western standoff rendered with the kind of dynamic, crisp linework that made Crandall one of the most respected cover artists of the era.