Tex Ritter Western #26

Charlton's Tex Ritter Western #26 puts the singing cowboy's comic counterpart front and center in high-stakes fashion — cover pencils by Dick Giordano and inks by Vince Alascia show Tex astride a dark horse, pistol drawn and reins in hand, with a stagecoach and a lurking figure visible in the mountain background behind him. The cover promises "more story pages featuring your cowboy hero of the silver screen," and interior art by Stan Campbell delivers on that with a tale titled "Murder At Indian River." At a dime a copy in 1954, this Charlton outing captures the rugged charm that made Tex Ritter a household name on both the big screen and the comics page.