Cowboy Western Comics #36

Roving Marshal Sunset Carson is ordered to escort a convicted rustler to state prison, but his dangerous job of protecting the prisoner from an angry lynch mob in Little Creek is just the beginning. When Idaho and his gang spring an ambush on the trail, they leave Carson unarmed and on foot—forcing him to pursue them with nothing but his wits and grit. As the rustlers scheme their next move at a remote ranch, Carson must outsmart them before they discover his whereabouts, with help from an unexpected ally.

Denver Mudd discovers a fortune hidden behind his late grandfather's picture—a will leaving fifty thousand dollars to the relative who kept his memory alive, along with a key to the family bank box. But when Denver returns with his inheritance, two cunning swindlers named Slick and Droop have a scheme of their own to separate the sheriff from his newfound wealth.

Sitting Bull earned his fearsome name through hunting prowess and battlefield skill among the Hunkpapa Sioux, eventually rising to head chief of a united tribal council in the 1860s. This non-fiction account traces his pivotal role in the Sioux campaigns against U.S. troops, including the legendary assembly at Little Big Horn River, and follows his life through surrender and his final days on the Standing Rock reservation as religious upheaval swept through his people.

A bank robber and his boss cook up a scheme to lure Pecos Bill out of town with a fake treasure map so they can rob the local bank—but their plan hits a snag when a certain goat develops an appetite for the stolen loot. This 1951 tale from Cowboy Western Comics proves that sometimes the best-laid schemes of criminals and critters don't quite go the way anybody planned.