Sunset Carson Comics #2

Kit Carson's father wandered the frontier with his large family, chasing the promise of untamed western lands—until tragedy strikes when Kit is just a boy. Years later, as a young apprentice in a saddle shop, Carson finds himself captivated by tales of Indians, Spanish señoritas, and mountain trappers, setting him on a path that will define his life in the American West.

When Rancher Casey refuses to bank his cattle-sale earnings despite Sunset Carson's warnings, he falls victim to a cheating gambler—and then finds himself robbed twice over in quick succession on the dusty streets. Now it's up to Sunset to track down the thieves and teach an old friend a lesson about the safest place for his money in the lawless West.

Sunset Carson stumbles into a frontier crisis when a wagon train stops in Tuscosa, Texas—a mother falls gravely ill just as her family desperately needs to push westward to stake a homestead claim before the government opens newly vacated Indian Territory to settlers. When Carson arranges for the woman's care and befriends the stranded family, he has no idea that the town's respectable bank president is orchestrating a sinister scheme to monopolize the very land these honest homesteaders are racing to claim. As dawn breaks and opportunity strikes, Carson finds himself caught between a family's dreams and a ruthless conspiracy that threatens to consume them all.

Mario De Marco chronicles the wild frontier history of El Paso, Texas in this 1951 feature, tracing how the town became a notorious haven for outlaws fleeing the law—where gunfights in the streets were so routine that a quiet night seemed unusual. The narrative zeroes in on John Selman, the corrupt lawman who seized control of the town, demanding payoffs from gambling halls and businesses while eliminating anyone who stood against him through ambush and cowardice. De Marco lays out the chain of violence that defined El Paso's darkest era and the reckoning that finally brought it to an end.