Masked Raider #7

This 1957 Charlton gem presents the Billy Kid, Western Outlaw, in a cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia that crackles with frontier energy — a masked, dark-hatted rider on a rearing horse seizes an opponent mid-brawl while a third figure tumbles into the chaos below. The dust-and-hooves action captures exactly the rough-and-tumble spirit fans expected from the era's best Western comics. Inside, Joe Gill's story "Boom or Bust," brought to life by artist Charles Nicholas, inker Dick Giordano, and letterer Jon D'Agostino, promises the same hard-riding excitement the cover so vividly advertises.