Tex Ritter Western #33

Charlton's Tex Ritter Western #33 delivers on its "Action Packed Big Adventures" promise right from the cover, where the fringed and white-hatted Tex charges through a scene of smoke and flame, pistol drawn and lasso swirling, with a horse visible at his side. Dick Giordano's pencils and Vince Alascia's inks give the whole composition a kinetic, swirling energy that pulls you straight into the chaos. At a dime a copy in 1956, this was frontier adventure at its most vivid — "Tex Ritter and the Bullet Trail" sounds like exactly the kind of story this cover deserves.