Gunmaster #87

Charlton's western duo gets a genuinely unsettling challenge in this 1966 issue, as the cover by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio plunges Gunmaster into a surreal nightmare — dozens of disembodied eyes float across a fiery background while he staggers, struck by a rifle blast, with warnings to "don't look!" echoing around him. In the lower left, a masked Bullet the Gun Boy watches helplessly as the villain known as Cane — whose eyes are called "the mirror of death" — exerts his deadly influence. Teasing the interior story "Death Wears Black to Boot Hill," this issue delivers the kind of eerie, eye-catching western horror that made Charlton Comics a fun and distinctive corner of 1960s comics.