Straight Arrow #44

Fred Meagher's cover for this 1955 Magazine Enterprises entry captures a fierce mounted clash mid-river, where a warrior in a vivid feathered war bonnet and shield grapples with a lance-wielding rider on horseback, while additional riders press in from the background. The story promised inside — "The Shield of Sleepy Wolf!" — suggests that decorated shield at the center of the struggle carries some real significance. At just a dime, issue #44 of Straight Arrow delivers the kind of kinetic Western action that kept readers coming back month after month.