Tomahawk #133

This April 1971 DC issue puts Hawk, Son of Tomahawk, squarely in the crosshairs as the cover — penciled and inked by Joe Kubert — captures a pulse-quickening mounted pursuit, with a menacing rider on a dark horse bearing down on a figure being knocked aside, horses surging forward in a dusty blur of motion. The blunt, chilling speech balloon ("The only good injun is a dead injun!") makes the threat unmistakably personal, and the corner box teaser "Hawk Faces the Scalp Hunter!" signals that this frontier confrontation carries real stakes. With Robert Kanigher writing and Frank Thorne on interior art, this is a sharp entry in DC's western line that doesn't shy away from the harder edges of the frontier genre.