Straight Arrow #53

When toy trains begin vanishing from a shopkeeper's shelves in Sawtooth Junction, Steve Adams soon discovers they're in the hands of outlaws—and worse, the bandits are using miniature train layouts to plan real robberies across the territory. Straight Arrow must track the train-robber gang across the badlands before they pull off their biggest heist yet in Hangknot Canyon. With only a crushed bluebell and his wits to guide him, the great Comanche faces a race against time to stop "The Men Who Bought Trains!"

When settler wagons bound for California and Oregon mysteriously vanish en route to Sawtooth Junction, the town's struggling merchants turn to Straight Arrow for answers. The Comanche hero and his faithful companions Fury and Blaze track the missing wagons to a box canyon, where they uncover a ruthless gang of bandits holding the settlers captive and robbing them of their wealth. With the next wagon train in the bandits' sights, Straight Arrow must find a way to warn them and free the prisoners before the outlaws make their escape.

In "The Mark of the Wolf," Red Hawk crosses paths with Wolfpaw, a young man raised by a wolfpack, when both are ambushed by Osage warriors. After joining forces to survive the attack, Red Hawk and Wolfpaw test their skills in a fierce but honorable duel—ending not in victory, but in mutual respect and the beginning of a lasting bond.

When an escaped convict named Reb Parker sets out on a trail of vengeance against Judge Elijah Boone, Straight Arrow takes up the pursuit through dangerous territory—armed with a mysterious cardboard box whose contents remain hidden even as the chase intensifies. As Parker uses cunning tricks to slow his pursuer, Straight Arrow closes in on Gila City, where the confrontation between hunter and hunted will finally play out. The real question is whether the Comanche warrior's clever scheme will stop Parker before the convict reaches his target.