Cowboy Western Comics #46

Rip Ryan, marshal of Cowtown, takes a well-deserved vacation in the High Sierras to prospect for gold—until a plane crash lands nearby and he discovers the wreckage is no accident. The downed aircraft carries enemy agents on a dangerous mission, and Ryan finds himself caught between ruthless spies, a mountain predator, and a mystery involving stolen atomic secrets that could change everything.

Two drifters, Simon Stitch and Miguel Brazos y Cordoba, stumble into a deadly ambush on the plains and discover a cabin where violence has already struck—an old man nearly strangled with rawhide and his niece Jane left unconscious. When the culprit returns and the truth spills out, our heroes find themselves caught between a desperate family's troubles and a killer determined to silence them all. With fists, wits, and a length of wet rawhide, Simon and Miguel must face down their attacker and decide whether the open frontier they came seeking is worth staying to see justice done.

Deputy Matt Carver discovers a wagon loaded with gunpowder hidden on Kane's Knob overlooking Silvertown—and stumbles into a scheme by desperate men who plan to blow up the town as cover for a bank robbery. Captured and forced to ride the powder wagon into town as the fuse burns, Carver fights to turn the explosives away from innocent people and toward the criminals who set the trap.

When a marshal's room is robbed while he's away, he sets out to track down the culprit among the townspeople—and discovers a clever way to identify the thief. Marshall Teague pieces together the clues and confronts the suspect in "Mark of Distinction," a tale of frontier justice from Cowboy Western Comics #46.

When a mysterious spacecraft descends during an atom bomb test attended by assembled Indian tribes, a figure claiming to be the legendary Apache chief Geronimo emerges from the stars, calling on his people to join him in a devastating attack on America. But one man, Strong Bow, questions the visitor's authenticity—and his skepticism sets off a chain of events that could expose the impostor's true identity and stop his plan before it unfolds. In this wild 1953 sci-fi western, survival and cunning clash with cosmic deception on the frontier.