The Adventures of Bayou Billy #3

Archie Adventure Series delivers some genuine swamp-country tension in this January 1990 installment, as a snarling, blue-faced beast pins a bare-chested Bayou Billy to the water's surface, knife in hand and teeth bared — while a blonde woman and a cowboy-hatted figure react in alarm in the background. Amanda Conner handles both pencils and inks on the cover, bringing visceral energy to the struggle between man and creature. With a story titled "Swamp Fever," this third issue promises the kind of wild, murky danger that makes bayou adventures so compellingly unpredictable.