Billy the Kid #15
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Billy the Kid #15 This issue contains two stories. "Billy the Kid and the Whistler Roan" follows Billy as he encounters a horse thief who has stolen multiple horses, including a prized mount with a silver-trimmed saddle, and Billy pursues the criminal. The second story involves Billy tracking bank robbers named Wyatt Grogan and Frank Schmidt, who are identified as dangerous gunmen, while Billy works to apprehend them before they can escape.
When Billy the Kid falls to Pat Garrett's guns, his young first cousin—also named Billy Bonney—inherits both the family name and its ruined reputation. Determined to prove the Bonneys are more than outlaws, Billy must stand up to a cattle thief and his gang who are using the family's notoriety to terrorize the town, all while resisting the violent path his infamous cousin walked.
After the sheriff strips Billy the Kid of his gun following a forced gunfight with Rafe Weaver, the young outlaw finds himself vulnerable to old enemies Babe and Link Heiken, who see an opening to settle their score with their fists. When a concerned townsperson intervenes and publicly shames the sheriff for his treatment of Billy, the lawman's political concerns force him to reconsider how far he'll push the Kid.
Billy the Kid sets a trap for a gang of horse thieves by using a beautiful roan as bait—but the real trick is the horse itself, which responds to a peculiar whistle in ways the thief won't expect. When the professional rustler Ben Gratten steals the bait, Billy pursues him into the badlands and a showdown at the gang's hideout, where he'll need every advantage to come out on top.
When Billy the Kid and a stranger find themselves pinned down by a war party at a dry creek bed, they're forced into an unlikely alliance to survive the onslaught. The two gunfighters hold their ground against overwhelming odds, discovering that together they're far more formidable than either could be alone. By the time the dust settles, Billy learns his new partner carries a name just as storied as his own—Buffalo Bill.
After ten years away, Bob Clayton returns to his family farm hoping for a fresh start—but his son Ted greets him with cold resentment and a reminder that their small farming community has no use for a gunslinger. When Buck Holsten's ranch hands bait Clayton into a gunfight in town, it triggers a dangerous chain of events that threatens to destroy every farm in the valley. Clayton must find a way to prove that coming home means more than just picking up where he left off.
Billy the Kid springs into action when a bank robbery goes sideways and one of the thieves—the dangerous bushwhacker Cleve Tate—slips away. When Tate returns to town with his gang to bust the captured robbers out of jail, Billy finds himself in a race against time to stop them before the jailbreak succeeds. High-stakes gunplay and quick draws collide as Billy and the Sheriff face off against Tate's hardened outfit in a fight to keep the peace.
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Reprinted in Gunfighters #85 (1984), Oklahoma Kid #28, Sheriff Klassiker #11
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