Jimmy Wakely #18

Against a blazing red background, Jimmy Wakely fires his revolver at a ghostly, smoke-wreathed rider on horseback — the mysterious Phantom Brander — who charges forward clutching a branding iron while bullets seem to pass right through him. The cover's bold proclamation, "Not even bullets can stop the Phantom Brander!", sets up a genuinely eerie Western showdown, with Gil Kane's linework giving the spectral horseman an unsettling, otherworldly energy that stands out even among DC's 1952 Western lineup. At a dime, this July–August issue delivers Hollywood cowboy star Jimmy Wakely facing what the cover calls "a spectral figure of doom" — a premise that blends frontier action with a touch of the supernatural.