Six-Gun Heroes #6

Ten Gallon Tex tries to trick Travers with a riddle about barrels and weight, but the real action heats up when hired men botch an attempt on a rancher's life—and Hopalong Cassidy finds himself caught in the crossfire. With mistaken identities, kidnapping, and a villain's ruthless scheme unraveling, Hopalong and his partner Mesquite race to save the innocent man and bring the real killers to justice.

Lash LaRue springs into action when he discovers a wounded rancher, Bart Tucker, ambushed by hired guns—only to learn that Tucker's own foreman, Clyde, has been running a rustling operation from the Bar TW spread while the owner was back East recovering from surgery. Trapped in a cave and left for dead, Lash must use his wits and his famous bullwhip to escape and expose the betrayal before Clyde and his gang can cover their tracks.

Binks trades his six-guns for a baker's apron in this quick Western humor bit, armed with a pun as his secret ingredient for the career change.

When Eastern toughs imported by an unscrupulous banker begin terrorizing ranchers across the territory with foreclosures and violence, undercover Marshal Rocky Lane must find a way to stop them—but the law itself seems to be on Garrison's side. It takes a cattle stampede gone wrong and a captured outlaw's confession to finally give Rocky the opening he needs to move against the banker and his hired guns in "Killers from the City."

Lamebrain Lem puts his friendship to the test when he asks his pal Fred point-blank whether the townsfolk really think he's dopey and dumb—and Fred's answer reveals what kind of friend he truly is. This one-page humor story mines comedy gold from the tension between loyalty and honesty in a way only a Western can.