Lash LaRue Western #14

Lash LaRue teams up with young Davey, swearing him in as his assistant marshal and devising a clever system of scattered nails to warn each other if either is captured—but when the Cinder Kid's gang makes good on their threat to the judge, the outlaw band kidnaps Davey's blacksmith father to force him to shoe their horses for a border escape. Now Lash must track down the gang's hideout before they disappear across the territory line, with only a trail of nails to guide him.

When a stagecoach robbery puts a valuable diamond in the wrong hands, Lash LaRue must track down the thief before the stolen gem disappears for good. With a bungling stage driver, a suspicious boot maker, and a cunning outlaw all tangled up in the chase, the marshal's sharp eyes and trusty bullwhip become the only tools that matter in "Lash LaRue and the Lost Diamond."

Wagonwheels gets the better of a smart-aleck tenderfoot with a bit of frontier wit in this lighthearted one-pager. When the newcomer proves too clever for his own good, Wagonwheels decides to teach him a lesson—western style.

When healthy horses and men start dying under mysterious circumstances at a Tulsa carnival, Marshal Lash LaRue arrives to investigate—and quickly spots a scheme far deadlier than a rigged horse race. Determined to catch the culprits red-handed, Lash uses his own mount as bait, leading to a wild chase that tests both his whip and his wits against desperate men willing to kill to keep their racket secret.

Halfwit Hack plans to catch a show with his gal Daisybelle, but he's pleasantly shocked when she arrives ahead of schedule—a far cry from her habitually tardy ways. In this brief, lighthearted frontier tale, Halfwit discovers that his girl's gotten a handle on punctuality at last.

In this western humor tale, Molasses Mouth spends his time daydreaming about the holidays, only to recall the underwhelming—and health code-shattering—gift he received the year before. A single-page gag that captures the comic misadventures of a character trying (and failing) to stay on the right side of frontier decency.

Dusty finds himself saddled with the impossible task of minding his boss's brother, Goofty, a scatterbrained fellow with logic that defies all reason—from wanting to take his horse to bed to feeding hay to his nightmares. As Dusty tries to keep Goofty in line, the two bicker and clash, with Goofty's absurd antics and even more absurd justifications testing Dusty's patience at every turn. A rollicking frontier comedy about two incompatible characters stuck with each other, where the real challenge isn't the wild west—it's dealing with a brother-in-law who's determined to drive you crazy.

When a dying gang member offers information from his prison cell, Lash LaRue arrives to listen—only to find himself knocked senseless and framed for escape. Now hunted by the very law he serves, the marshal must track down the escaped prisoner and dismantle the Wayne Gang before their elaborate trap closes in. "Lash LaRue and the Path of Doom!" is a clever game of cat-and-mouse where the hunter becomes the hunted, and only quick thinking and sharper instincts will see Lash through to the finish.