Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine #1

When Nicky brings his out-of-town pal Seymour to meet the local crew—Dick the Dip, Light Fingers Louie, and Shnook the Crook—the newcomer quickly discovers that his host's friends have some very distinctive talents. This 1950 humor tale from Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine shows what happens when introductions go hilariously awry.

When the notorious land-grabber Bart Barton threatens to seize Mrs. Bonney's farm, Billy the Kid steps in to defend her and the other families of Clay County—but his intervention catches the attention of Barton himself, who offers the young gunslinger a job with his outfit. Torn between a chance to help his struggling family and the moral cost of working for a man built on theft and deception, Billy must decide what kind of man he wants to become when his old comrade reveals the true nature of the work he's asking.

A legendary outlaw and a man with a debt: when Deb Sturgeon tracks down Billy the Kid in his mountain hideout with news of blackmail threatening his friend's innocent niece, the hunted desperado makes a dangerous promise to retrieve the incriminating evidence—even as a twenty-thousand-dollar bounty and the law itself close in. What begins as a midnight break-in at a lawyer's office spirals into a deadly race through town, where nothing is quite as it seems and survival itself hangs by a thread.