Straight Arrow #49

When outlaw gangs threaten the peace around Sawtooth Junction, two legendary lawmen arrive—Straight Arrow, the Comanche warrior, and Wild Bill Hickok, the famed marshal—seemingly ready to join forces. But a cunning scheme plants false evidence of raids, turning the two allies against each other and setting up a dramatic confrontation at sundown. With the real culprits watching from the shadows, these titans must discover the truth before their clash tears the territory apart.

When Steve Adams falls victim to a mine explosion during a desperate showdown with the Clipper Jackson gang of train robbers, those who knew him believe he's lost forever—but unbeknownst to them, he survives and transforms into Straight Arrow to hunt down the outlaws. The great Comanche war chief tracks the desperadoes across dangerous terrain to a lonely ghost town, where a stolen watch becomes the key to turning the tables on Jackson himself.

When medicine-man Howling Dog resurrects an old Cheyenne tradition of leaving gifts at the sacred medicine-tree—claiming the Great Spirit speaks through magical clay vases—Red Hawk grows suspicious of the flood of valuables mysteriously disappearing. After an innocent warrior faces execution for a theft Red Hawk knows he didn't commit, the young Cheyenne must expose the medicine-man's elaborate con before more of his people are ruined.

When Straight Arrow overhears an outlaw army planning to raid the mining town of Crazy Man Gulch in two hours, he races to warn the townspeople—but his horse Fury goes lame, and three desperadoes pursue him on foot across treacherous terrain. Cut off from the main pass and hunted at every turn, the Comanche war chief must use every trick in his arsenal to stay alive long enough to reach the town before Buckskin Frank Leland's rifraff army strikes. It's a desperate sprint against the clock in this action-packed adventure from 1955.