Texas Rangers in Action #31

A Texas Ranger on a rearing white horse levels his pistol toward an oncoming steam locomotive, smoke billowing from its stack against a dusty twilight sky — it's a cover that captures the wild tension of the frontier railroad era in one vivid image. Charlton's Texas Rangers in Action #31 from 1961 promises outlaw trouble with the bold headline "Badmen's Guns Against," and the cover pencils by Dick Giordano (inked by Sal Gentile) deliver a scene full of grit and urgency. Inside, Joe Gill's writing pairs with Rocco Mastroserio's art on "The Town Where Honor Died!" — all for a still-just-10-cents cover price that reflects a great era of Western comics storytelling.