Red Mask #46

From Magazine Enterprises comes this 1955 ten-cent Western with a cover that plunges straight into the action — Red Mask himself, in his signature crimson suit and domino mask, stands pistol-drawn alongside a blue-clad ally as a swirling melee of riders and warriors erupts around them, horses rearing and figures tumbling across a dusty frontier landscape. Frank Bolle's linework gives the whole scene a kinetic energy, staging what looks like an all-out confrontation with no shortage of combatants on either side. With the interior story bearing the ominous title "Death Mission!", issue #46 delivers exactly the kind of pulse-quickening Western adventure that made Red Mask a staple of 1950s frontier comics.