Lash La Rue Western #69

Charlton's Lash La Rue Western #69 from September 1958 puts the whip-toting hero front and center in a tense saloon standoff — Lash stands cool and confident alongside a startled blonde woman in a colorful dance-hall dress, while a menacing gunman looms large in the foreground and shadowy figures lurk in the background. The cover tagline says it all: "No man! No gun! Nothing can stop Lash La Rue from doing his job!" Dick Giordano's crisp linework gives the scene real punch, and with Joe Gill writing and Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia handling interior art, this "Exciting Western Thriller" delivers solid frontier action built around the story of "The Scarecrow Bandit!