Billy the Kid #42

When a masked outlaw's shotgun misfires during a train robbery, Billy the Kid seizes the moment to infiltrate the Higby Gang by assuming the identity of one of their own. Posing as a gang member, Billy must navigate the outlaws' hideout in Bone Canyon while gathering intelligence and keeping suspicion at bay. "Ride With Violence" is a tense game of deception where one wrong move could expose Billy's disguise—and cost him everything.

Billy the Kid seeks refuge in a peaceful village south of the border, hoping to leave his gunslinger days behind—but when a gang of bank robbers holes up at his friend's home, his hard-won peace shatters. With innocent lives hanging in the balance, he must decide whether he can truly escape the violence that follows him, or if his only path forward is to confront the evil that threatens the people he's come to care for.

Boyd Egan, a drifter headed to the Busted M Ranch, crosses paths with Tanapeh, a Sioux man struggling to feed his starving family on the reservation. When Egan shares his meager meal and learns of the cruelty inflicted by the corrupt agent Rudish and the weak Lieutenant Bindlass, he decides to follow Tanapeh back to the agency—where his sense of justice is about to collide with the abuse of authority. A hired gun's conscience becomes his new commission in this tale from Billy the Kid #42.

Billy the Kid orchestrates an audacious bank robbery in 1963's "Stick-Up"—but his real target isn't cash, it's evidence of predatory lending that's strangling the entire town. When a ruthless creditor named Reilly moves to claim everything through illegal mortgages and call notes, Billy springs a trap that forces the truth into open court, where a traveling lawyer exposes the scoundrel's usury for what it is.