Jimmy Wakely #11

Billing itself as "Hollywood's Sensational Cowboy Star," this 1951 DC offering packs a full 52 pages for just a dime, with cover art by Gil Kane depicting Jimmy Wakely fighting his way through a gauntlet of warriors — knives raised, figures pressing in from every side — while the cover copy promises a blazing western thriller called "Showdown at Santa Fe!" Inside, Alex Toth pencils and Bernard Sachs inks the story "The Trail of a Thousand Hoofs!," with lettering by Gaspar Saladino — a genuinely strong creative lineup for any western comic of the era. If you have a soft spot for two-fisted frontier adventure with crisp mid-century storytelling, this one's hard to pass up.