Billy the Kid #63

Billy the Kid stumbles onto a covered wagon where a sharp-shooting woman named Melody Dawes knocks him cold—then nurses him back to health, though he's left with no memory of who he is. Playing along with his amnesia, Billy agrees to help Melody and her gang rob a bank, but the lawmen are waiting, and the outlaw must choose between the beautiful woman who's won his heart and his duty to stop her crime. Written with interior art by the Charlton Comics Group, "Too Pretty to Kill" delivers a frontier tale of deception, loyalty, and a man caught between two sides of the law.

In 1831, ruthless horse thieves cross the Sierra Nevada to raid Spanish California ranches for their prized breeding stock, stealing nearly 2,000 animals to sell eastward for hefty profits. But as the thieves push their massive herd across the winter mountains, the Plains Indians—who need those horses far more desperately than any dealer—launch their own raid on the stolen herd, setting in motion a frontier reckoning that spans a thousand miles.

Billy the Kid finds himself in a deadly bind when a young hothead named Cletus Moore draws on him in an Arizona town—and Billy's shot, though aimed to wound, sparks a furious lynch mob convinced he gunned down one of their own. With the marshal struggling to hold back an angry crowd and the truth buried under emotion and small-town loyalties, Billy must navigate a harrowing escape and the desperate hope that evidence will clear his name before mob justice takes hold.

In "Day Without Courage," Billy the Kid finds himself captured by Logan, a man driven by vengeance, after days without water leave him weakened. With his life in the balance, Bonney spins a dangerous lie—claiming he carries a deadly, contagious illness—forcing Logan to imprison him. As Logan gathers a ruthless mob to witness his demise, a quiet ally emerges in the form of Pepito, who slips food to Bonney and begins to orchestrate a trap for the region’s most feared outlaws.