Texas Rangers in Action #75

Charlton's Texas Rangers in Action #75 packs plenty of frontier tension into its December 1969 cover, where a rooftop gunfight erupts among a crowd of armed outlaws above the bold banner "Sanctuary," while below, a blond hero and a wide-eyed cowboy are caught in a fierce indoor brawl — with a rearing horse adding to the chaos. Three stories are teased across the cover: "Sanctuary," "The Earl of Texas," and "The Man Who Was Everybody's Friend," promising a full slate of Western adventure. The cover art, credited to Carlos Casalla, Pete Morisi, Charles Nicholas, and Vince Alascia, delivers the kind of kinetic, rough-and-tumble energy that made Charlton's Western line a solid fifteen-cent buy in 1969.