Gene Autry Comics #94

This 1954 Dell issue wraps America's Singing Cowboy in a warm holiday mood, with Gene Autry — all smiles in his embroidered western shirt and white hat — opening what appears to be a festive red gift bag near a mailbox, a snow-dusted red barn and pine trees framing the cheerful scene behind him. It's a photo-realistic cover by Arnold Holeywell that captures Autry's effortless charm as perfectly as any of his films. Inside, Tom Cooke brings the pencils and inks to "The Man From Jackrabbit Hill," promising the kind of Western adventure that made this series a staple of mid-1950s comics reading.