Four Color #930

Dell's authorized tie-in to the hit TV western puts James Garner front and center in a striking photo cover, gun drawn and coat swept back against a burst of sharp orange and red rays. The cover teases a genuinely intriguing mystery — was the Relic of Fort Tejon a miracle or a mirage? — the kind of question that made Maverick such a refreshing change of pace from straight-shooting cowboys. With interior art by Dan Spiegle, this 1958 ten-cent edition is a lovely snapshot of when television's wittiest gunslinger rode right off the screen and onto the comics page.