Tex Ritter Western #43

This October 1958 Charlton issue puts Tex Ritter in a tense, close-quarters moment — his face fills the foreground, gripped in concentration as a gun is pressed against his head, while a menacing gunslinger looms in the background with weapon drawn. The cover, penciled and inked by Dick Giordano with inks by Vince Alascia, captures that signature Western suspense with clean, confident linework. With Joe Gill writing and Maurice Whitman on interior art, "The Man Who Was Always One Ahead" promises exactly the kind of sharp frontier storytelling that made this series a reliable ten-cent treat.