Tomahawk #23

DC's frontier hero faces one of his most harrowing trials on this March 1954 cover, where Tomahawk — clad in buckskin — braces himself as a gauntlet of warriors armed with clubs lines up on both sides, ready to strike. A young companion stands nearby while a figure in the foreground warns that surviving this tribal test is the only path to freedom for Tomahawk and the boy. With cover pencils by Curt Swan and inks by Ray Burnley, it's a tense, beautifully rendered scene that captures exactly why DC billed this series as "Brand-New Adventures of America's Favorite Frontier Hero.