Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine #23

"The Tale of the Gun-Shy Boy" features Billy the Kid engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand fight with an older man named Kessler over a gun, after which Billy pursues a "mystery rider" and a man called the Deacon through a desert landscape. The mystery rider uses rope traps to evade pursuers, and Billy eventually confronts the Deacon near a lonely ranch house, discovering that the Deacon had been pulling the reins at Billy's side all along. The story culminates with Billy identifying the Deacon as the one responsible for the gunplay, though the final resolution remains unclear from the visible pages.