Hopalong Cassidy #30

From Fawcett's long-running western series comes Hopalong Cassidy #30, cover-dated April 1949 and starring the silver-screen cowboy William Boyd. Norman Saunders' painted cover puts Hoppy front and center — red-shirted, black-hatted, and revolver drawn — standing astride a team of galloping horses while a stagecoach rumbles through the dust behind him. With the story "Crossfire" inside and the promise of "explosive action on the trails of the Wild and Wooly West," this ten-cent Fawcett issue captures everything that made the American West so thrilling to 1949 readers.