Gunsmoke #9

This issue contains three stories. "Kate Barlock—She-Devil of the West" follows Kate defending a frontier fort against Kiowa Indians with only three men at her side during an attack in Culpepper, North Dakota in July 1856. "The Masked Marvel" features a masked vigilante who must use his gunfighting skills and his identity as the weakling son of a millionaire oil man to solve the mystery of "the Duplicate Marvel" and stop a wanted criminal responsible for armed robbery and murder. A third story involves characters named Greg, Sue, and Dan searching for the Golden Eagle and the Mother Lode in a mining operation, with plans to transport a valuable shipment.