Texas Rangers in Action #5

Two hard-riding Rangers thunder across open country on horseback, rifles raised, while the foreground puts a fallen hat, a gleaming star badge, a holstered gun belt, and spent cartridges ominously center stage — a composition that makes the stakes feel immediate. Dick Giordano's cover art (inked by Giordano and Vince Alascia) delivers the kind of dusty, kinetic energy that made Charlton's western titles such satisfying ten-cent reads in 1956. With Joe Gill writing and Dick Giordano on interior art, Texas Rangers in Action #5 promises the no-nonsense frontier action its "Fast Moving Episodes" banner proudly advertises.