Death Valley #6

When Sheriff Bart Norton of Desert City finds his trigger-happy deputy Ed Cassidy has crossed the line, he strips him of his badge and forces him out of town—but Cassidy's thirst for revenge brings him back under cover of darkness for a final gunfight. As Norton and Cassidy exchange shots in the darkness of his office, the sheriff discovers that sometimes luck comes from the most unexpected places.

Chuck Cannon, now county attorney and guardian to Belle Partridge and her younger brother, discovers that the ruthless Bull Donovan is running for sheriff—and worse, Belle has mysteriously vanished. Forced into an impossible choice between endorsing a man he knows is corrupt or risking the safety of the woman he loves, Chuck must navigate a web of betrayal and danger to save her and stop Donovan's rise to power. This tale of loyalty tested and hard choices comes from the pages of Death Valley #6.

In Devil's Gulch, a clever bandit known as Jack Tate, the Po-8, has been robbing stages and leaving behind poems boasting of his crimes—and for years, nobody's been able to catch him. When a seemingly harmless little man named Richard Crowe, a boarder at Widow Culpepper's house, turns up with suspicious laundry marks at the scene of a particularly deadly holdup, the sheriff finally gets a lead on the elusive outlaw.

The Old Scout recounts his wild encounter south of the border when a brutal bandit named El Toro schemes to become president through intimidation, bribery, and violence—forcing rival candidates Juan Lopez and Felipe Columbo into his grip. As El Toro's ruthless campaign sweeps to a landslide victory, the meek Vice-President Lopez finds his moment to turn the tables in a shocking twist of frontier justice. This tale of corruption and vengeance proves that in Mexican politics, even the smallest man can find the longest knife.