The Cisco Kid ( 1)

This first volume represents the strip's first two years, accompanied by biographical and historical essays that engage even as they illuminate some of the larger and lesser-known aspects of both creators and their creation. As for the strip itself, which ran between 1951 and 1957, it's a marvel of concision and expression, a melding of two great talents that resulted in one of the most entertaining, engrossing, and exciting western sagas in any medium.