Real Fact Comics #18

DC's Real Fact Comics brought true-life history to life in 1949, and this issue dives deep into the wild legend of Tombstone, Arizona. The cover — penciled by Dick Sprang and inked by Charles Paris — sets a vivid scene: a dusty frontier street erupts in gunfire, with newspaper headlines screaming "Doc Holliday Shoots Two More" and "Tombstone Keeps Up Death-A-Day Average!" while a "Welcome to Boot Hill" sign leaves no doubt about the town's reputation. A sharp-featured man in a brown hat peers out from a portrait inset at the bottom, teasing the story of "The Mystery Man of Tombstone" and how law and order came to the roughest town in the West.