Four Color #626

Dell's frontier adventure series brings Ben Bowie front and center on this 1955 cover, painted by Hank Hartman — a buckskin-clad mountain man raising his fist with a rifle in hand, jaw set and eyes fierce, while a second figure crouches warily in the background amid a wilderness landscape. The tagline "None could escape the Fight for the Fort!" sets a tense, high-stakes mood for the "Fight for the Fort" story within. Hartman's bold, painterly style gives the whole thing a rugged energy that captures the grit of frontier life perfectly.