Kid Montana #30

When former trail partners Kid Montana and Logan Yates meet again, Logan has turned to a life of crime—and his younger brother Billy, dazzled by what he sees as his brother's toughness, has fallen under his spell. As Logan gathers his gang to make a final stand against the Kid, Billy must watch his idol face the truth about the man he's worshipped. "The Broken Idol!" explores what happens when the myth a boy believes in collides with the reality of who his brother really is.

When a Kiowa boy on a Montana reservation refuses to let his starving tribe eat his beloved spotted dog, he's brought before his father the Chief and faces harsh judgment—but a sudden blizzard and an unexpected rescue change everything. Young Bear learns that his loyalty to his friend may have saved his people after all, as the agents reveal how the dog led them through the snow to find the village.

Kid Montana bullets down a Yaqui warrior in the Sonora wilderness, but quick thinking and quicker mercy transform an ambush into an alliance—when the wounded man's village mistakes the Kid for one of the brutal bandits terrorizing their silver-mine settlement, Kid Montana proves his good faith the only way that matters in frontier country: with his gun pointed at their real enemy. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Kid and his new allies must turn the tables on a ruthless band of killers before the mountains run red.

A mysterious outlaw called "Black Mask" has been systematically robbing stages on the Malpaise Line, and Texas Ranger Sam Harlan is assigned to stop him—but the case takes an unexpected turn when the ranger discovers the driver of one of the robbed stages may be more involved than he appears. As Harlan closes in on his suspect, a clever confrontation on the trail reveals exactly how deep the conspiracy runs.

Edward Laughlin arrives in the rough frontier town to teach school, but his Eastern ways and refusal to compromise on historical truth—particularly about the outlaw Quantrell—draw the ire of the powerful Clay family. Kid Montana watches as the principled schoolmaster faces a brutal choice between his pacifist convictions and defending his students from a rival school teaching revisionist lies. This is a tale of integrity tested in a land where guns speak louder than lessons.