John Wayne Adventure Comics #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe main story features young Jim Marker seeking revenge against Johnny Wayne, the son of the man who killed Jim's father, but Wayne proves himself to be honorable and determined to win Marker's respect as a man rather than through violence. After a bitter desert chase in which Wayne is pursued by a posse and shot at, with his horse killed beneath him, Wayne faces Marker in a final confrontation where Marker demands Wayne shoot an unarmed man to even the odds—a test Wayne refuses, declaring he won't live with murder on his conscience. Moved by Wayne's integrity, Marker ultimately abandons his vendetta and the two part as men of principle.
In "The Ugly Duckling Bandit," a young man named Nathaniel Hilton, scarred by a cruel accident and shunned for his looks, finds himself driven to a life of crime. After a desperate escape across the desert, he’s saved by a member of a Native American tribe, who offers him the one thing he’s never known—friendship. Now, decades later, the tale of his hidden fortune and the man behind the scars comes to light.
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Reprinted in Al Capp's Li'l Abner #89 (1952), John Wayne Adventure Comics #18 (1953), John Wayne Adventure Comics #21 (1953), John Wayne Adventures #16 (1956), Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine #72 (1958), Golden-Age Greats #11 (1997), The Al Williamson Reader #[nn] (2008), Golden-Age Greats Spotlight #7 (2011)
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