Tomahawk #71

DC's frontier adventure series delivers a wildly imaginative scenario in this December 1960 issue, as Tomahawk and his companions find themselves cornered in a lost valley and set upon by club-wielding warriors dressed in primitive furs — exactly the "tribe of prehistoric Indians" the cover's speech balloon warns about. The cover, penciled by Dick Dillin and inked by Sheldon Moldoff, captures the tension beautifully: two buckskin-clad frontiersmen scrambling to raise their rifles while a charging warrior leaps toward them from rocky cavern-dotted cliffs. It's the kind of pulpy, high-concept premise that made Tomahawk such a fun read during the Silver Age.