Oklahoma Kid #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Oklahoma Kid #2 (1957) This issue contains multiple stories. "Luck—by the Armful!" follows Lefty Green, an ex-baseball player with an injured arm, as he enters the boxing ring against veteran slugger Rhino McMahon in a championship match, determined to prove himself despite his physical limitations. A second story, "The Trail to Tombstone," features Bert Rex pursuing a man responsible for his father's death in the Overland Stage Company, with assistance from Mary Cary; after discovering the guilty party attempted to derail a stage, Oklahoma Kid helps expose and apprehend the culprit. The third story, "The World's Too Small!", depicts a hermit living in the desert with Widow Tilly who becomes haunted by the realization that there is no escape from his past.
The Oklahoma Kid and his young Indian companion stumble upon a pair of prospectors who've struck gold—only to have the claim jumped by a ruthless gang led by Joe Bax. When one prospector is shot and left for dead, the Oklahoma Kid takes on the outlaws single-handedly, using quick wits and frontier tricks to outmaneuver them and reclaim the mine. It's a tense showdown in the desert where lawlessness meets justice, and one man's code makes all the difference.
When a stagecoach carrying the returning Mary Cary fails to arrive in town, Sheriff Steve Blake organizes a posse to investigate—but the Oklahoma Kid's solo search uncovers a kidnapping plot that reaches deeper into the town's business dealings than anyone expected. With the truth about stage company owner Bert Rex hanging in the balance, the Kid must ride hard to catch the culprit before the Sheriff's posse does and Mary Cary can settle her reckoning.
The Oklahoma Kid intercedes when he finds a man being punished by Red Cloud's tribe for injuring an Indian boy, but his prisoner's smooth story masks something darker. When the Kid uncovers the truth—that Clem Hawkins struck the boy over a gold claim—he offers the guilty man a choice: face Red Cloud's justice or answer to the white man's law. What unfolds is a tense test of nerve that forces Hawkins to confront the consequences of his own actions.
Hermit Slate treasures his solitary life in the frontier wilderness until Widow Tilly unexpectedly arrives at his cabin door with her twin daughters in tow, promptly taking over his home and his life with iron-fisted determination. As the widow sets her sights on marriage and domestic bliss, Hermit Slate desperately seeks a way to reclaim his peace and freedom. With help from an unlikely ally, he devises a plan to convince the persistent widow that staying put might not be in her best interest.
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