Straight Arrow #19
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Straight Arrow #19 This issue contains a "Red Hawk" story titled "The Happy Hunting Grounds!" in which a Cheyenne legend tells of dead warriors journeying to a peaceful land where all tribes live in harmony, but a young warrior named Spearthrower refuses to accept this fate after his bride dies. When the tribe's medicine man attempts to send Spearthrower to the happy hunting grounds, Steve Adams (Straight Arrow) intervenes, revealing that the supposed curse of the fire god has been manufactured to control the tribe. Adams defeats the scheme and helps restore peace to the people.
When the railroad pushes into Comanche lands, a medicine man's cunning turns tribal warriors toward war—but Straight Arrow rides to prevent a bloodbath before it drowns the frontier in conflict. Armed with wisdom and his ancestor's sacred war bonnet, he faces his blood brother in a contest that will determine whether the Thunderbird's "magic" can truly decide the fate of a people.
When a series of stage robberies plague the frontier, Straight Arrow suspects the outlaws are hiding in Indian Territory—and when Comanche braves report sightings of a fearsome "Demon Buffalo-Bear" near the old tower called El Torreon, the masked rider sets out to investigate. What he discovers is far more sinister than local legend: a renegade Army deserter has built a criminal empire around the manufactured monster, using it to drive away witnesses while he stockpiles weapons for a larger scheme. Straight Arrow must infiltrate the outlaw camp and stop the conspiracy before it can strike.
When a young Cheyenne warrior named Spearthrower's bride dies, he becomes consumed with reaching the legendary Happy Hunting Grounds in the land of the setting sun to reclaim her. Red Hawk and Bigfoot join his desperate westward journey, but what they discover along the way—through treacherous encounters with the Kootenai and a fever-stricken revelation—tests whether Spearthrower's quest is rooted in truth or grief-fueled delusion. A tale of love, honor, and the line between legend and reality in the Old West.
When superstitious fear grips the Comanche tribe, Red Cloud falls under the spell of a false curse orchestrated by the medicine man Roaring Flame and the exile Bold Hawk, who demand ever-greater offerings from the terrified people. Straight Arrow must expose the deception and confront the schemers' dangerous game before their supernatural hoax destroys the tribe entirely.
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Reprinted in Straight Arrow #16 (1952), Red Hawk #1 (1953), Straight Arrow Giant Edition #17 (1960)
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