Texas Rangers in Action #38

Charlton's Texas Rangers in Action serves up a powder-keg 1963 Western with this issue featuring "The Gunslinger," promising raw courage pitted against six-gun menace. The cover, penciled by Bill Montes and inked by Ernie Bache, pulls readers in from multiple angles — a massive revolver blazing in close-up, a desperate gunslinger in a yellow shirt backing away with a defiant shout, and a star-badged lawman's hand returning fire with a resounding "BLAM." Teasers like "the hunter becomes the hunted" and a backup story, "Behind the Badge," round out what looks to be a full afternoon of frontier action at twelve cents.