Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine #18

The Brand Brothers have turned Locust Valley into a town of fear—rustling cattle, robbing trains, and eliminating anyone who dares oppose them—until Billy the Kid rides in and refuses to back down. When the sheriff won't help and the townspeople are too terrified to act, Billy takes on the murderous twins himself, but the brothers prove as cunning as they are vicious. Now Billy must outwit two killers who'll stop at nothing to crush anyone who stands in their way.

When Billy the Kid stumbles upon Mrs. Landon and her son Tommy at their frontier ranch, he discovers they're under siege by a ruthless gang—all to force her into surrendering a map to valuable mining claims. After learning that the gang's leader, Joe Swanson, orchestrated her husband's murder and now plans to kidnap the boy for ransom, Billy sets out to turn the tables on the would-be kidnappers. With cunning and quick action, he pursues Swanson's crew to their hideout and prepares to rescue young Tommy before the gang can complete their scheme.

When Billy the Kid takes shelter in an outlaw hideout called Dodgertown, he's forced into an uneasy alliance with a gang planning to raid the nearby town of Pinon City—but his chance rescue of a young woman caught in their clutches gives him the opening he needs to turn the tables. With the sheriff's backing and a carefully laid trap, Billy transforms from fugitive to lawman in a single desperate morning, facing down the very gang he'd pretended to join.