Jonah Hex #30

A saloon standoff sets the stage for this 1979 DC Western, as a star-badged sheriff levels a shotgun at the seated, scarred Jonah Hex while a tense crowd of onlookers — including a woman on the staircase and a shadowy figure at the right — watches the confrontation unfold. The exchange of dialogue says it all: Hex, cool as ever, tells the lawman he's just helped him make up his mind. Luis Dominguez's cover work captures the gritty atmosphere perfectly for the story inside — "Birth of a Bounty Hunter!" — with Michael Fleisher at the helm of what promises to be a turning-point tale for the scarred gunfighter.