Straight Arrow #55
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Straight Arrow #55 This issue contains two stories. "Packy's Fool Pranks" follows a prankster named Packy who continuously plays tricks and receives a mail-order catalogue from Chicago, leading him to send away for various novelties and fireworks. "Red Hawk" tells of a young Cheyenne warrior named Red Hawk who seeks to marry and prove himself in battle; he learns of a legendary lost gold mine worked by Spanish conquistadors located in the Bitter Ridge country and sets out to find it, eventually discovering the gold and becoming wealthy like a paleface. "The Defeated Brave" depicts Red Hawk's conflict with Bigfoot during a time when Soft Thunder's people face hardship, as Red Hawk fights to protect his tribe despite his new wealth and desires.
A conniving medicine-man named Many Dreams stokes war fever among the Kiowas with promises of a mystical vision, but Straight Arrow uncovers a dangerous scheme when he discovers the "Painted Man" prophesied to unite the tribes is actually a conspirator in disguise. Trapped in a box canyon and cut off from stopping the deception, Straight Arrow must find an ingenious way to turn Many Dreams' own supernatural hoax against him before it ignites a massacre.
When Soft Thunder decides that Red Hawk needs a wife, the young Cheyenne warrior finds himself outmatched in a battle he never wanted to fight. Armed with the help of his best friend Bigfoot, Red Hawk tries to find fault with every eligible woman in the tribe—but when Soft Thunder summons her cousin Dawn Flower, a woman seemingly without flaw, Red Hawk discovers that winning a bride might require more courage than any physical contest. As jealous suitors challenge him left and right, this "Defeated Brave" learns that sometimes the greatest struggle isn't against war clubs and tomahawks.
When Tall Deer sees gold at Fort Cobb, the young Comanche warrior is seized by ambition—he abandons his tribe's traditional ways to seek fortune in the legendary mines of Bitter Ridge, dismissing Straight Arrow's warnings as selfish deception. But the barren country holds dangers far worse than harsh terrain, and Tall Deer's hunger for wealth lands him in a deadly trap that tests whether he can tell greed from honor. Caught between stolen riches and his own wavering conscience, this Comanche must learn what Straight Arrow has been trying to teach him all along.
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Reprinted in Giant Size Western Comic Book #50 (1958), Colt Western Library #48 (1959), Golden-Age Greats #7 (1996), Gwandanaland Comics #1085
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