Best Cover You've Never Seen--Bobby Bensen's B-Bar-B Riders #17 (1952)

It's the look on the horse's face that really sells it, you see.

This scene does really happen in the lead story. The horse, and all of the critters, survived.

GCD lists the credits for this cover as pencils Dick Ayers (?) and inks Ernie Bache (?).

Question marks be damned--it's a helluva cover.