Straight Arrow #7

Few covers from 1950 capture the breathless energy of the frontier quite like this one: Straight Arrow leaps from his galloping painted horse directly onto a speeding "Great Western" railroad express, reaching through the open boxcar door while a gun-toting outlaw inside scrambles to react. Fred Meagher's cover art sells the sheer audacity of the moment beautifully, with the thundering train, red mesa landscape, and decorated horse all working together to set a vivid Western scene. The cover story "Comanche Country!" promises that iron rails pushing into Native lands will make for a tense and action-packed read.