Best of the West #5

In "Fraud on the Hoof," The Durango Kid, Steve Brand, rides into Gunhammer Gulch to uncover a scheme where a local banker, Jagger, uses hired guns to rob his own bank—driving ranchers into ruin so he can seize their land at rock-bottom prices. Written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Joe Certa, this 1999 Western thriller blends sharp moral stakes with the quiet tension of frontier justice, all rendered in crisp, period-accurate art.