Billy the Kid #9

When a Mexican bandit called El Jefe steals a rancher's cattle herd across the Rio Grande, Billy the Kid refuses to let the notorious rustler get away with it—even though everyone else fears the outlaw's army and influence south of the border. Determined to even the score, Billy tracks El Jefe down and confronts him on his own ground, gambling that his quick draw and nerve can outmatch the bandit's overwhelming numbers. What unfolds is a tense game of wits and gunplay where the Kid discovers he's not fighting alone.

Pistol Packing Pattie takes aim at reforming the West's filthiest drifter, Grimy Grimes, with some sharp words about his appalling lack of hygiene. When he protests her needling, Pattie delivers a quip that lands harder than any bullet—proving that sometimes a clever tongue is mightier than a pistol.

When Billy the Kid drifts into Benton as a carefree young man, he stumbles onto a brutal con: Jess Drago has been luring hopeful settlers with promises of ranch partnerships, then robbing and threatening them. After helping one victimized tenderfoot, Billy decides to pose as another mark to expose Drago's scheme. What unfolds is a tense game of wits and gunplay as Billy outmaneuvers the con man and his hired thugs in "The Terrible Tenderfoot."

Happy Jack loved his stagecoach and his partner Amos Mann—until the day a gold shipment from the Creole Belle Mine turned their run into a bloodbath at Spring Rock. When Will Oberson's carefully guarded secret is betrayed and bullets start flying, Happy Jack discovers the heist wasn't random—and someone he trusted had loaded blanks into the shotguns. Now Happy Jack rides into town looking for answers and vengeance, his own guns loaded with something far more lethal than buckshot.