Jonah Hex #64

The cover of Jonah Hex #64 (September 1982) bursts with raw frontier tension, as Jonah Hex charges out of a narrow alleyway between wooden buildings, gun drawn, while armed men close in from both sides and a dark-haired woman in a purple dress is caught in the middle of the chaos. Ross Andru's pencils and Dick Giordano's inks capture the desperate energy perfectly, with the cover copy promising that "violence and madness explode in the streets when Jonah seeks The Pearl!" Inside, Michael Fleisher writes and Dick Ayers illustrates — a solid creative team delivering the gritty Western storytelling this series does so well.