Red Mask

Gardner Fox, a prolific architect of the Silver Age, scripted most of this Magazine Enterprises series, which ran for 13 issues from 1954 to 1957. The title features the masked Western hero Red Mask, but the book also serves as a showcase for a rotating cast of frontier figures, including Tim Holt, Jeff Grant, the Black Phantom, and the Presto Kid, with art largely by Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers. It stands as a lively, mid-1950s example of the Western comic boom, blending costumed crime-fighting with traditional cowboy action.