Red Mask #44

Red Mask #44 delivers a pulse-quickening western showdown straight from 1954, with cover art by Frank Bolle putting the masked hero in vivid red front and center — balancing precariously on a rope stretched across a canyon while facing down a knife-and-spear-wielding warrior, as armed onlookers line the rocky cliffs below. The story teased is "Death at Split Mesa!", promising high-stakes danger in the rugged frontier territory that defined ME's western adventure line. With Gardner Fox writing and Dick Ayers on interior art, this issue is a fine snapshot of mid-century comics firing on all cylinders.