Blazing Sixguns #17

Jan 1964 · I. W. Publishing / Super Comics · 0.12 USD

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This issue is an anthology containing two Western stories. "The Mark of the Gunfighter" follows a gunslinger preparing for a final showdown after months of practice. "Western True Crime" depicts a marshal's pursuit of a dangerous outlaw named Henry, who commits murders across multiple towns (Galveston, San Antonio, Abilene, Dodge City, and Cheyenne); the marshal pursues Henry on horseback after a violent confrontation at a hotel, ultimately tracking the killer across the frontier. A third backup story, "Lameless Town," appears to be advertised on the cover but is not visible in the sampled pages.

Contains 3 stories

The Little Weasel

9 pp · Western-Frontier

Henry Plummer and the Road Agents

9 pp · Western-Frontier

In 1852 California, Henry Plummer shoots a man over a woman and sets himself on the road to infamy—a path that leads him from prison to the mining town of Bannack, where he schemes his way into the sheriff's office and transforms it into a cover for organizing a ruthless gang of road agents who prey on gold shipments across Idaho's highways. As Plummer uses his badge to protect his own killers and manipulate justice itself, the town discovers just how completely one man's ambition can corrupt an entire community.

Ben Thompson, the Murderer Whose Weapon Was Fear

10 pp · Western-Frontier

Ben Thompson, a suave gambler turned notorious gunman, rules the Old West through sheer intimidation—his deadly accuracy and quick draw making him feared across entire towns, but his arrogance and violence eventually unite those he's terrorized against him. When a man Thompson has marked for death prepares to make a stand, the killer's reign of fear faces its reckoning. This tale from *Blazing Sixguns* #17 captures the rise and fall of one of the frontier's most ruthless gunfighters.