Six-Gun Heroes #38

Wild Bill Hickok suspects that Colonel Moulton's ranch is harboring wanted outlaws rather than legitimate cowhands, and sets out to gather evidence by carefully matching the suspicious crew members against reward posters. When an ambush attempt on the marshal reveals the colonel's desperation, Wild Bill executes a clever canyon trap to round up the entire outlaw operation and expose Moulton's scheme to profit from providing sanctuary to fugitives.

Wild Bill Hickok tangles with Rock Donnel, a brutish freighter who's bullying his way through town—and when the renegade escapes jail, he turns to ambush and violence to settle his grudges. Hickok must track Donnel down, but a marshal's code means bringing him in alive for justice, not taking the easy way out.

Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles investigate a cattle rustling mystery plaguing the ranches of the Pecos River Valley, where herds are disappearing without a trace. When suspicious shipment records point to Clem Harkness of the Box M ranch, Wild Bill sets out to gather proof, discovering evidence of altered brands that exposes the rustler's scheme. It's a race against time as the investigation heats up and tensions boil over on the frontier.

When the Abilene stage is robbed of a gold shipment, Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles move fast to catch the three culprits—but the criminals' slick lawyer springs a trap of his own, making the stolen gold and key witnesses vanish. Hickok must track the escaped prisoners to their hideout at an abandoned mine, where a desperate lawyer has rigged a deadly surprise that puts both marshal and sidekick in the crosshairs.

When a fearless newcomer named Norman stands up to the brutal Colby in a town on the brink of conflict, Marshal Wild Bill Hickok finds himself caught between keeping the peace and letting the kid prove his mettle. As tension simmers between the trail drivers and local toughs, Norman's willingness to throw a punch might be the spark that ignites the whole powder keg—or the unexpected solution Wild Bill never saw coming.

When a young man's greed for his foster uncle's ranch leads him to conspire with a desperate neighbor, roving marshal Lash LaRue arrives just in time to uncover a scheme that goes far deeper—and deadlier—than anyone expected. As the truth about the poisoned creek and the missing heir comes to light, LaRue must track down the real culprits before their own partnership turns violent. "Fixin' The Fixers" shows that sometimes the worst enemies are the ones closest to home.

A whimpering fellow named Whimpy shows up at the sheriff's office with a black eye, demanding that Tad Briggs be arrested for the punch—only to find himself on the wrong end of the lawman's skepticism. This half-page western comedy plays the classic setup of a complaint that's harder to prove than it looks.