Six-Gun Heroes #64

A mysterious gunslinger with twenty-eight notches on his gun-butt tracks down Lash LaRue in the town of Laredo, seeking a final showdown—but his reasons for challenging the famous lawman run far deeper than fame or fortune. When the two fastest draws in the West finally face off, Lash discovers that sometimes the real victory lies not in winning, but in showing mercy to a man who's lost everything else.

When a homesteader named Dan Ballard is accused of rustling and thrown in jail, his young son Billy insists his father is innocent—and Annie Oakley believes him. Suspecting that a powerful rancher named Hank Gurdy may have planted the stolen steer to grab Ballard's land, Annie digs into the truth and uncovers a web of lies that puts more than one life in danger. It's a race against time to prove Ballard's innocence before Gurdy's scheme spirals into violence.

Wild Bill Hickok rides into the corrupt town of Bullhide as a newly hired deputy marshal, but his plans to clean house take an unexpected turn when he tangles with the outlaw Bronco Lewis and comes away with damaged hands. Stranded and seemingly helpless, Hickok devises a clever gambit: let the town's hardcases believe he's crippled and harmless, so they'll stay put long enough for him to identify every bad actor in Bullhide. When the moment comes to make his move, the silenced gun speaks louder than anyone expected.

A wounded deputy and his outlaw prisoner find themselves stranded in the desert without water or hope—forcing the captive to make an impossible choice between his freedom and his captor's life. When Ted Ross chooses mercy over escape, Deputy Hager's gratitude takes an unexpected form, offering the rustler a path to redemption that neither man saw coming. "The Prisoner" is a tense three-page Western that proves sometimes the hardest fight is the one against your own nature.

Wyatt Earp receives an unexpected invitation to serve as best man at outlaw Curly Bill's wedding—but Curly Bill's rougher associates have other plans and vow to keep the lawman from ever making it to the ceremony. Determined to see his unlikely friend hitched, Wyatt must fight his way through a gauntlet of trouble to reach the town hall in time.