Six-Gun Heroes #18

A young woman named Blubber is teased by her friend Brainy Buster for constantly eating, despite her best efforts to resist. As Brainy challenges her to prove she can stop, Blubber nervously gulps down another bite, hinting at the struggle ahead.

A young man known as Lamebrain struggles to solve a crossword puzzle, prompting a friend to mock him for being "stumped." The banter escalates into a playful argument about intelligence, with the friend claiming Lamebrain is too "dopey" to know better—until Lamebrain retorts with a sharp comeback that leaves the other stunned.

Monte Hale, a wandering cowboy, is ambushed and knocked unconscious by a masked bandit who seems to be searching for something. After regaining consciousness, he teams up with a local lawman to track down the thief, only to discover that the bandit has a distinctive strawberry birthmark—and that the real target might be a stolen gold mine map. As they follow a trail of deception, they realize the thief may have been mistaken for Monte, and now the hunt turns into a race to uncover who’s really behind the scheme.

Hammer-Head accidentally drinks an entire bottle of ink instead of his medicine, panicking when he realizes his mistake. He urgently tells a nearby person to fetch every blotting paper available from the ranch house, hoping to counteract the ink’s effects.

Ten Gallon Tex learns that Slippery Stevens was arrested for borrowing money—only to discover the twist: Stevens tried to borrow from someone who was asleep, making the act technically impossible. The humor lies in the absurdity of the situation and the exaggerated reaction to such a peculiar crime.

When a campfire sparks in the woods, Lash Larue investigates and discovers the body of Joe Holly, a ranch owner, clutching a locket with a woman’s photograph. Though the local sheriff doesn’t recognize the man or the picture, Lash sets out to find the woman in the locket, unaware that a bandit is already hunting him to reclaim the same locket.

Lamebrain walks into a saloon, completely stumped about what he wants to order. After a series of increasingly confused attempts to remember, he declares he’s a half-wit—and then realizes that two half-wits make a whole wit, so he orders a loaf of whole wheat bread.

In the dusty frontier town of 1953, a young man with a mysterious mark on his wrist claims he tried to stop a murder at Tom Colby’s ranch, only to be knocked unconscious and framed. When lawman Rocky Lane arrives, he pieces together the truth not from lies, but from the physical evidence of a muddy left-handed mark—proof the accused couldn’t have made it himself, pointing to Fred Brinks as the real killer.

Ten Gallon Tex tries to mail a letter he thinks is going to New York, only to discover it's actually addressed to Chicago — and the postmaster’s reaction suggests the joke is on him. The story unfolds with playful misdirection as Tex gets caught in a lighthearted mix-up at the post office, complete with a humorous twist on the mail’s destination.