Cowboy Western #65

When Rufe Bolton's trigger-happy brother vows to spring him from jail, Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles brace for a showdown with Trigger Joe's outlaw gang. As the Bolton gang schemes to rob the bank under cover of a jailbreak, Wild Bill devises a calculated trap to catch them red-handed with charges that will stick. The stage is set for a tense confrontation in town.

When a slick land agent arrives to settle boundary disputes with government surveys, ranchers expect relief—but Everett Dawes has other plans, using forged paperwork and hired guns to steal their claims. Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles must expose the swindle before Dawes and his men can lock up the ranches for good in this sharp western tale from *Cowboy Western* #65.

A grizzled prospector named Old Slick refuses a simple delivery job to Hank Edwards' spread—those mosquitoes out that way are so enormous they slap back when you swat them. When a visitor reads the shocking news that city doctors are reviving Shakespeare in New York, Old Slick finds the whole proposition far more unbelievable than any tale of giant frontier insects.

When outlaw Turko Brown's gang takes over a frontier town and the menfolk prove too greedy to object, Annie Oakley decides the women of the town need to take matters into their own hands. She rallies the ladies to use the one weapon the men can't ignore—pressure at home—to force their husbands into standing up to the gang. What unfolds is a showdown that proves the town's real strength was there all along.

Parker's new partnership with Big Mack Duff on a ranch seems like a smart way to keep the tough hombre in check—until Parker discovers that their joint checking account comes with a painful catch. This 1957 humor tale plays the old setup-and-punchline game with frontier flair, delivering a quick laugh about partnership and the price of doing business with the wrong crowd.

When Jingles returns to town with a bank shipment, he finds himself caught in the crossfire of the Concho Gang's string of hold-ups—complicated by a nervous little man named William Foote who keeps interfering with his marshal's duties. After Jingles takes the bait and gets locked away, he must break free and prove that Foote is orchestrating the robberies with Wild Bill Hickok's help, all while facing down armed outlaws with his wits intact.