Action-Packed Western, May 1957 — page 77: what you’re looking at

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s ’ vy a at ,* a KILLER’S PURSE 77 stumbled and fell, rolling into a sprawl- ing heap. He dug an elbow into the dirt, half raised to a sitting position, and pulled his Colt from under the short coat. Herb watched him calmly, until the muzzle of Thatcher’s sixgun seemed ready to explode, then he pulled the trigger and a narrow black hole wid- ened and blood spurted as Thatcher turned and ground his dead face into the dirt. “Get-out!” Herb Martin’s voice grated. “Get out and take that dead varmit’s body along. We'll bury Pa.” His teeth exposed in a grimace. “Just get the hell away from Pa’s coffin!” “Herb...” The Sheriff stepped for- ward, his rounded shoulders stiff as he moved out from the silent crowd. “Herb, don’t go off half-cockea. “Get them outa here, Sheriff. May- be you wash’t party to the killing— but it happened—and you done noth- ing to stop it. If you think your official nian ays ATU 19 fi {; niger Tan «) = — pt: i yn ee os TW > yaa : OD! it edie | \ as co — " ( WAAAY Aw i st) , SS Robert Silverberg Ry tl job says you got to draw that gun— then draw it or get away from this graveyard.” He paused, then added. “We don’t know exactly—yet—but we'll find out who all was in on Pa’s killing!” The Sheriff ducked his head, and jerked his thin neck toward the corral. He led the black-coated men around the church. Two of them lifted the dead man sprawled in the dust, and hurried after the others, A wracking sob came from Ray Martin as Herb swung off his horse and over to his brother. Grego COUNTY erupted with the churchyard killing. The story was spread that Will Thatcher had been gunned down while he was flat on the ground, with the Preacher pleading for this life. Angry men gathered in the saloons of the cattle towns. It had been a rough, dry season. Water had [Turn Page| Adventures in Space and Time tells how. a rescue ship became the rescued in @ QUICK FREEZE relates the problem of a creainrve who looked like FEAR in Milton Lesser @ NAME YOUR TIGER SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY still only 25¢ — May issue now on Sale at all stands Gcomicboo (E(0)