Outlaws of the West #63

In "Born Bad," a boy raised in the shadow of his father’s past must confront the truth behind the outlaw leader he’s sworn to follow. When a bank job in Yuma forces him to face a secret tied to El Lobo, the line between loyalty and legacy begins to blur.

In "The Big Boss," the seemingly respectable bank owner of a Wyoming frontier town finds his empire crumbling after a sudden turn of events in California, leaving his grip on power—and perhaps his future—hanging by a thread. The story unfolds with quiet tension, tracing the fallout of ambition in a world where trust is as rare as water in the desert.

Sheriff Matt Yawkey of Crooked Horn, Texas, leader of a band of highwaymen, encounters Scotty McCrepe, an inventor with an unusual contraption—a portable gallows designed to slowly tighten as a condemned man loses weight. When McCrepe proposes to rent his grim invention to the town, Yawkey's own criminal secrets are exposed, and justice catches up with him in an ironic twist. A clever western tale of greed and comeuppance from Outlaws of the West.

In "The Incident at Fire Creek," a traveling peddler armed with nothing but a shotgun and a dream of opening a general store finds himself caught in a violent ambush by three outlaws. When the gun misfires, killing two and wounding the third, the surviving outlaw drags him to Fire Creek, where he spins a tale of a deadly gunslinger—only to be stunned when the town's boss appoints the bewildered peddler as sheriff, mistaking him for a hardened outlaw.