Exciting Comics #69

Alex Schomburg's cover for this September 1949 Standard Comics issue captures the wild collision of the Old West and the modern age — Billy West, guns blazing in a yellow shirt and cowboy hat, crouches atop the wing of a speeding red "Lazy B Ranch" plane while a masked woman looks on from the cockpit and armed riders on horseback give chase below. It's a wonderfully energetic composition that perfectly sells the promise of "Your Favorite Cowboy… Billy West" in full action-hero form. With interior work by writer Joseph Greene and artist John Celardo on "The Deadly Dude!", this issue delivers frontier adventure with a thrilling twist.