Cowboy Western #63

Dusty tracks down the banker to settle a matter, but instead finds himself tangled up in a rapid-fire battle of wits with a persistent pal who won't stop needling him—from schoolyard memories to questionable cooking to increasingly creative insults. What starts as a simple errand turns into a comedy of escalating verbal jabs that neither cowboy seems willing to let go of.

Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles investigate a string of gold ore shipment robberies, but the trail leads to something far stranger than simple theft—a supposedly haunted mine where ghostly lights and eerie figures have long been feared. When Jingles ventures into the Lost Lode to warn a local ore dealer, he stumbles onto a clever con that's been hiding in plain sight, and only Hickok's timely arrival can expose the truth behind the mine's haunted reputation.

A cowboy with outsized confidence in his vocal talents decides he's the perfect singer for the opera house's new show, and regales his skeptical pals with tales of his musical prowess—including a memorable performance that left the audience in an unexpected state. This 1957 humor tale from Cowboy Western #63 proves that sometimes a singer's greatest gift isn't always what he thinks it is.