All Star Western #76

In "Ambush at Devil's Pit!" from All Star Western #76, Walt, the impostor sheriff, faces a brutal choice when his brother Wayne—local storekeeper and skilled fighter—is accused of murder after Walt’s own pistol and prints are found at the scene. When Wayne overpowers Walt and takes his badge, the two brothers race toward the deadly Devil's Pit, where a trap of quicksand awaits and killers have already seized their prey. With treachery in the air and a hidden water source beneath the store fueling a deadly scheme, the truth behind the ambush begins to surface—before the final reckoning.

In "The Curse of the Totem Pole!" from All Star Western #76 (1954), Strong Bow arrives in a remote Northwestern village only to find its people terrified and fleeing. With a towering totem pole bearing his likeness and a series of frozen sacrifices, he must unravel a deadly deception before the medicine man's scheme consumes them all.

In "The Navy of the Fighting Fifth!", 2nd Lt Corby, wrongly assigned to the Army despite his family’s naval tradition, teams up with Lt Dan Foley to prove his worth. Clad in an old riverboat transformed into a Civil War-era ironclad, the duo races upriver to rescue trappers pinned down by Blackfeet warriors. With bullets bouncing off their makeshift warship and a deadly log jam blocking their path, Dan’s quick thinking with dynamite turns the tide—just as Corby earns his long-awaited Navy assignment on the Snake River.

In "The Boothill Terror!", the Boot Hill Gang terrorizes Mesa City, forcing the sheriff to point to schoolteacher John Tane as the outlaw Johnny Thunder—unaware that John Tane is secretly the masked hero. With time running out, John Tane makes a desperate escape, transforms into Johnny Thunder, and rides with his loyal horse, Black Lightning, to confront the gang and save the town.