Bat Lash #6
DC's charming, morally ambiguous frontier drifter takes a darker turn in Bat Lash #6 (September 1969), with Nick Cardy's cover painting a genuinely haunting picture: a rain-soaked young man stands grieving in a cemetery surrounded by burning crosses and fresh graves, vowing "I'll get your killer, Ma…Pa!" — while an unseen gunman's revolver looms in the foreground, aimed squarely at his back. The header's teasing question — "Will He Save the West — or Ruin It?" — perfectly captures the ambivalence that made Bat Lash one of DC's most compelling Western characters. With Sergio Aragonés and Denny O'Neil scripting and Mike Sekowsky contributing to the interior art, this issue brings serious creative firepower to a title that never shied away from mixing heart with danger.
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Bat Lash encounters the man who swindled his parents out of their farm and kills him. He is arrested for the crime and tells the sheriff how Rickett's scam led to the murder of the elder Lashes and how Bat escaped with his sister and his fiancee, hiding them in a convent. Bat escapes from jail and goes to find Melissa and Bitsy but they tell him they are taking vows to become nuns and intend to stay at the convent.
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