Texas Rangers in Action #43

Charlton's Texas Rangers in Action serves up a tense slice of Western justice with this 1964 issue featuring "The Gallows Trail." Dick Giordano's cover lays out the stakes vividly — a WANTED poster for one Ferris Oliver, "Killer," dominates the composition, while a Texas Ranger on horseback rides hard in the background and a young blond man stares grimly at a hangman's noose in the foreground. With cover blurb copy promising a long and hazardous trail where "death lurks behind every rock and bush," this issue pairs Giordano's crisp linework with interior work by Pete Morisi and scripts from Joe Gill for a satisfying ride through frontier danger.