Straight Arrow #33

Issue #33 of Magazine Enterprises' Straight Arrow delivers a vivid splash of early-1950s Western action, with Fred Meagher's cover art putting the masked hero front and center — pistol raised, leaping from his palomino horse Fury — as he and a Native American companion take the fight directly to a pair of purple-masked outlaws. Hats fly, a knife glints in the air, and bodies reel in every direction, all perfectly capturing the cover's promise: "Straight Arrow and Fury Battle the Purple Mask Gang." Meagher's energetic linework gives the whole scene a kinetic punch that makes this 1953 ten-cent comic genuinely hard to put down before you've even opened the cover.