Rod Cameron Western #15
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeRod Cameron is riding through the Red Hills toward Fort Jenning when he is suddenly attacked by a band of Indian renegades led by Paleface. Despite being outnumbered, Cameron fights off his attackers, but Paleface orders his warriors to capture Cameron alive and take him to Devil Pit rather than kill him. Cameron must survive the renegades' assault and escape their plans to use him in the Devil Pit.
When Rod Cameron stops a robbery at the general store in Gray Rock, outlaw Bat Burton and his gang devise a scheme to remove him from their path—by forcing banker Turnbull to frame the lawman for breaking into the bank. But Rod soon realizes the setup and discovers that Burton plans to use Turnbull as a human shield during a daring daylight robbery of the very bank he's being forced to help rob. With the banker's life hanging in the balance and time running out, Rod must find a way to stop the outlaws without putting an innocent man in the line of fire.
Andrews is fed up with folks minding his business at every turn, so he hatches a delightfully petty plan to teach the nosiest among them a lesson they won't forget. This brief, tongue-in-cheek western tale finds humor in one man's frustration with small-town gossip and his decidedly unconventional solution.
When Sheriff Sam investigates a commotion at Tom's General Store, he finds two eager job applicants literally fighting it out for the position of helper—and accidentally giving poor Tom a pair of matching black eyes in the process. As Sam tries to sort out which of the scrappy candidates deserves the job, their competing insults and wild accusations keep escalating in "The Sorry Job!", a lighthearted Western romp that proves hiring help is trickier than keeping the peace.
Rod Cameron accepts a dangerous assignment from Secret Service agents: he'll pose as an outlaw and share a jail cell with Cat Barker, a counterfeiter caught passing bogus ten-dollar bills, hoping to trick him into revealing where the counterfeit plates are hidden. When Rod's gambit works and Barker leads him to an abandoned hideout, a shocking betrayal forces Rod to rely on quick thinking and his trusted stallion to survive and stop the real masterminds behind the operation.
Rod Cameron rides into a deadly trap when renegade leader Black Elk captures him in the Red Hills, but a daring escape on his horse War Paint leads him to Fort Jenning—battered but determined to stop the outlaw band once and for all. With help from Chief White Eagle, Rod devises a bold strategy: challenge Black Elk to single combat, knowing that a fair fight loss will shatter the renegade's fearsome reputation far more than any military campaign. What follows is a fierce showdown that tests Rod's wits and grit against a ruthless foe who'll do anything to keep his grip on power.
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Reprinted in Six-Gun Heroes Western Comic Annual #4 (1959), Rod Cameron Western #1 (1961), Best of the West #56 (2006), Cowboy Hero Annual #3, Rod Cameron Western #2
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