Sheriff of Tombstone #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue features two stories. "Sheriff of Tombstone" follows Sheriff Spade as he plans a raid on the Tombstone banks with his deputies, only to be ambushed by Hart's gang. When Hart's men arrive at the bank, they find Sheriff Spade waiting and a gunfight erupts. "Try a Trap" is a prose story about Dr. John W. Anderson, a distinguished man on horseback, who encounters Apache rider Brave One and others while traveling through Arizona territory, becoming drawn into a situation involving Pop Kiney's rumored gold and mysterious strangers in the area.
Luke Spade, the quick-draw son of Tombstone's sheriff, finds himself trapped between his father's warnings and his own restless pride when a gunfight with the notorious Art McPike leaves him with nowhere left to stand in town. Facing exile or the badge, Luke chooses a third path—riding out with Tonio Hart's gang—but his fresh skill and steady nerve may prove more valuable to their operation than anyone, including Luke himself, realizes.
Young Luke Spade falls in with outlaw Tonio Hart's gang, unaware that Hart plans to use him as bait in a bank robbery—forcing the boy's lawman father to choose between his son and his duty. When Luke discovers Hart's true scheme and manages to load his guns despite Hart's sabotage, he must make a desperate stand against overwhelming odds to protect his father and the town of Tombstone.
Young Sheriff Luke Spade inherits his father's job in Tombstone—but he's convinced the old man was too lenient, and he means to run the town his way: hardcases in jail or in the ground. When the notorious gunfighter Asa Sharpe comes to town, Luke makes his intentions clear, and soon the territory's toughest outlaws are plotting to take him down in a deadly trap at the Royal Flush saloon. With his back against the wall and his reputation on the line, the young sheriff has to prove he's more than just a kid wearing a badge.
A war-weary Miles Cooper returns to his ancestral home in Blackstone to find it burned to the ground—and the townspeople who once called him friend now treat him as a stranger. When he learns that his own brother Ned stands accused of leading the marauders responsible, Miles vows to track them down and bring them to justice, no matter the cost. As he closes in on the truth, he discovers that nothing in his homecoming is quite what it seems.
When a ruthless banker uses his position to evict struggling ranchers and businessmen across Tombstone, Sheriff Luke Spade finds himself caught between his duty and his conscience—and a town on the brink of mob justice. As anger builds and violence threatens, the sheriff must use his wits as much as his badge to uncover the truth about E.J. Frisbie's scheme and restore order before tragedy strikes. Luke Spade faces his toughest test yet: stopping a man the whole territory wants dead.
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Reprinted in Sheriff of Tombstone #1 (1955), Giant Gunsmoke Western #11 (1959), Gunfighters #56 (1979), Gwandanaland Comics #793 (2017), Sheriff of Tombstone #50
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