Hopalong Cassidy #79

William Boyd cuts a sharp figure on this 1953 Fawcett cover, dressed head-to-toe in black with twin gun belts and a revolver drawn, crouched alert against a rocky outcrop — every inch the steadfast cowboy hero. The fiery logo at the bottom promises a giant Western thriller inside, "The Underground Inferno," written by Clement Good and teased with dramatic flames that hint at the danger ahead. At just ten cents, this issue of Hopalong Cassidy delivered more pages of stories and the kind of rugged frontier excitement that made this series a staple of early 1950s Western comics.