Tex Ritter Western #28

This 1955 Charlton entry in the long-running series puts the tension front and center — Tex Ritter, star-badged and green-kerchiefed, stands at what appears to be a saloon counter with a kerosene lamp nearby, while a shadowy figure in a dark hat lurks behind him, gun drawn and ready. Stan Campbell's cover art delivers a genuinely moody scene, using light and shadow to capture that classic sense of frontier danger closing in from behind. With a story titled "Sagebrush Gets Along Swimmingly" and interior art by Pete Riss, this ten-cent issue is a fine slice of mid-fifties Western comics.