Red Mask #47

In "Bait for Death!", a lone soldier carrying a crucial message to General Custer is surrounded by Sioux warriors, his life hanging in the balance. As the frontier burns with tension, Red Mask and the Black Phantom race against time to break through the ambush and deliver the message before it’s too late.

Flash Loomis rides into Bullet Country searching for the next range war to feed his gun fever, only to encounter the Black Phantom—a lawkeeper who bests him in a draw and offers him something unexpected: a chance to build a life on the land instead. As Ed Loomis trades his quick trigger for hard work and discovers an unexpected passion for ranching, he finds that his greatest battle isn't with guns, but against the forces that would strip away everything he's built.

Redmask was supposed to meet Texas Ranger Bryan in the lawless town of Rotten Gulch to help bring down the notorious outlaw Bad Bill Wilson, but when the ranger is killed before they can connect, Redmask must rely on a arsenal of unconventional weapons—crossbows, bolas, and other gear from his war-bag—to infiltrate Wilson's heavily fortified mountain stronghold and turn the tables on the gang. With the drawbridge as his only way across a treacherous ravine and Wilson's men closing in, Redmask puts his unique arsenal to the test in a daring bid to capture one of the territory's most dangerous criminals.

When the tyrant El Morte and his impossibly accurate rifle terrorize a Mexican territory through fear and extortion, a returning firebrand named Pedro Lopez attempts to rally the oppressed people—only to be captured and nearly killed. The Ghost Rider intervenes, rescuing Pedro and vowing to stand beside him, but realizes that defeating El Morte means destroying the legend of the rifle itself by challenging him to an impossible duel: barehanded against his weapon at midnight in the arroyo. What unfolds is a test of nerve and marksmanship that will shatter the tyrrant's grip on an entire land.