Tex Ritter Western #39

This January 1958 Charlton issue delivers a wonderfully clever cover by Maurice Whitman: Tex Ritter sits calmly at a small table, hat resting beside him, while an imposing gunfighter looms in the foreground — seen only from the waist down, twin holstered revolvers at the ready, framing Tex between his legs in a tense, eye-catching composition. The story "Six Gun Editor" promises the kind of action-packed Western adventure the title was built on, with Joe Gill writing and Charles Nicholas and Sal Trapani handling the interior art. At just ten cents, this was a sharp deal for fans of the real-life singing cowboy translated into four-color frontier thrills.