Billy the Kid #19

In "The Underdog!" from *Billy the Kid* #19, Billy encounters Morgan Ross, a small rancher fleeing a frame-up orchestrated by the ruthless Buckworth, who's used his power to crush smaller operators in Crake County. When Buckworth's goons try to stop them both, Billy sees a chance to turn the tables—by gathering evidence of Buckworth's own rustling scheme and forcing the sheriff to see the real criminal. A tense showdown between the outlaw and the corrupt boss rancher determines who walks free and who faces justice.

When the dying marshal of Sawtooth Gap names Billy the Kid as his successor, a scheming faction led by Hook Ferron forms the Committee of Six to stop him—but their plan backfires spectacularly when Billy arrives in town. Framed for a shooting he didn't commit and hunted by vigilantes, the quick-thinking gunfighter must outmaneuver armed pursuers and talk his way through a tense showdown to clear his name and prove he's exactly the lawman the town needs.

When a arrogant gunslinger named Dead-Eye Dixon rolls into a frontier settlement, he terrorizes the townspeople with his rifle—until the Cheyenne Kid stands up to him and drives him out with his bare fists. Bitter and determined to reclaim his reputation, Dixon sets up an ambush for the next morning, but a freezing night and trembling hands spoil his shot. What happens when the Kid tracks him down a second time will teach Dixon that a gun doesn't make a man.

Billy the Kid accepts a challenge from Hopo, a young war chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, in what begins as a test of courage but becomes something far more consequential. After proving himself to the tribe through a grueling ritual, Billy pursues Red Snake, a renegade Apache armed with a Winchester repeater, across treacherous terrain and into a final confrontation that will determine whether he can truly call himself one of them. It's a western tale that blends frontier gunplay with tribal tradition, where Billy must adapt to fight on Apache terms.