Texas Rangers in Action #36
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe lead story "Johnny Natchez" follows the exploits of the character Johnny Natchez, known to the Texas Rangers as a notorious outlaw of mixed heritage. After Johnny is captured and brought to town, a woman named Mary becomes involved in his case, and a scheme unfolds involving stolen money and a banker's plot. The story culminates in a confrontation where Johnny Natchez makes his escape, with law enforcement in pursuit.
Ranger Ben Cooper draws an unexpected assignment: escort the notorious gunman Kid Dance safely out of Texas and across the Mexican border after five years in prison. But as they journey through hostile territory, Ben discovers that Kid Dance's violent reputation makes him a target for every gun-hungry punk in the West—and a personal enemy from the past is closing in on them both. What begins as a protective detail becomes a test of loyalty and mercy when Ben must confront what it truly means to help a man escape his own legend.
Jethro Hand, a hardened outlaw shaped by poverty and violence since childhood, finds himself in a dusty West Texas town where the arrival of a dangerous gunman named Rio Reslin—operating under the alias Ed Jimcoe—threatens the sheriff's innocent niece. When the girl's kindness awakens something unexpected in him, Jethro must decide whether a man raised on the crooked trail can truly leave his past behind. This 1962 western explores whether redemption is possible for someone the world has written off as born bad.
Hachi Tuttle, a half-Comanche boy raised between two worlds, is torn from his tribe and brought to live in town—where prejudice and cruelty transform him into the Comanche Kid, one of the West's most cunning outlaws. Defying every lawman who pursues him, he eludes capture through skill and determination, until an unexpected force sets its sights on bringing him to justice.
A Texas Ranger tracks the outlaw Keno Killeen across 300 miles to a lawless Mexican village where his badge means nothing—but when Killeen's stolen fortune attracts the very dangers he fled, the ranger finds an unexpected advantage. With violence closing in from all sides, Killeen discovers that a Texas jail cell might be the safest place he can find.
Johnny Natchez cuts a charming figure as a bandit who targets the rich while sparing the poor—until Texas Ranger Cal Marney arrives to bring him in, determined to prove the outlaw's Robin Hood reputation is nothing but a clever disguise. When Marney locks down the county and cuts off Natchez's access to easy money, desperation forces the bandit to show his true colors, turning violent against the very people who've been protecting him. It's a hard lesson for a town that believed in their folk hero.
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Reprinted in Texas Rangers in Action #16 (1962)
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