Four Color #313

Dell's Four Color #313 brings Mickey Mouse to the Old West in "The Mystery of the Double-Cross Ranch," and Paul Murry's cover sets the mood perfectly — a cowboy-hatted Mickey rides his horse with a wary, wide-eyed expression while mysterious silhouettes of a mounted rider and a hulking figure with a flashlight loom ominously in the background. The contrast between Mickey's colorful foreground presence and those shadowy figures hints at the kind of suspenseful, adventurous fun packed into all 52 pages of comics inside. A charming 1951 Dell ten-cent package that delivers western intrigue with Disney's most beloved mouse front and center.