Six-Gun Heroes #37

When a payroll theft at the Silver Sage Mine sets off a chain of trouble, roving marshal Lash LaRue finds himself on the trail of a suspect—but nothing is quite what it seems. As the two-gunned, whip-wielding lawman digs deeper, he uncovers a web of blackmail and coercion that puts an innocent man's life and his brothers in danger. It's a slam-bang chase across frontier terrain where justice hangs by a thread.

When a shady operator named Jawbuster Brack uses a legal loophole to charge tolls on the only bridge crossing Crazy Snake River, undercover marshal Rocky Lane finds himself bound by the law even as small ranchers are squeezed into poverty. Rocky devises a clever alternative, but Jawbuster isn't about to let his scheme—and his designs on the ranchers' island land—go up in smoke without a fight. This tale of greed, law, and frontier justice packs real stakes and genuine ingenuity into its pages.

Pistol Packing Pattie calls out a braggart named Big Talk Briggs when his tall tale about his father's electrical genius gets a little too outlandish—and she's got just the sharp comeback to deflate his inflated claims. This one-page humor Western is a quick dose of frontier wit wrapped up with a crack that lands harder than any bullet.

When a drifter named Fluff shows up looking for work on Huff's ranch, the two immediately lock horns in a battle of wits—or what passes for one. Trading barbs and riddles with the logic of a tall tale, these two frontier characters prove that sometimes the best entertainment isn't finding answers, it's refusing to agree on anything. A rollicking two-page romp that shows humor works just fine when nobody wins.

When Tex Ritter rolls into town for a rodeo, he reconnects with an old friend, Gail, whose ranch hangs in the balance—she needs her prize horse Lightning to win the fifty-mile marathon race to save it from a conniving land grab. But when Lightning is sabotaged before the big race, Tex enters his own horse, White Flash, only to find himself facing a gauntlet of bushwhackers and traps set by those determined to keep him from crossing the finish line in "The Race Against Time!"