Texas Rangers in Action #47

Charlton's Texas Rangers in Action #47 brings the frontier code of duty versus loyalty front and center, with cover art by Dick Giordano depicting ex-Ranger Roger Drell striding forward, pistol drawn, as a young woman in a green dress pleads with him not to go — his reply, "I'm sorry, Mitti: I've got to go after him!", says everything about the man. Looming in the shadows to the right, a rugged figure in a cowboy hat watches from the darkness, with the outlaw known as One-Eye Vetter apparently somewhere in the crosshairs. At just 12 cents in 1964, this issue delivers that quintessential Charlton Western tension between personal ties and the ranger's unshakeable sense of justice, with the tagline "Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger" making the theme impossible to miss.