Hopalong Cassidy #31

Fawcett's Hopalong Cassidy #31 (May 1949) delivers exactly what the cover promises — a cowboy in a red shirt and wide-brimmed hat astride a white horse, revolver drawn and fence rails splintering beneath them in a burst of full-color western urgency. Norman Saunders' painted cover work crackles with motion and tension, perfectly setting the stage for "Strange Explosions" and the "hair-triggered action of the Wild and Wooly West" promised right on the cover. At a dime for 52 pages, this Fawcett publication starring William Boyd offers a generous helping of frontier adventure.