The Westerner Comics #27
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# The Widowmaker The story follows a man named Larry who discovers a deed to land and plans to claim it by winning a card game and obtaining money. After getting drunk at a saloon, Larry learns that a nephew named Jonah is arriving by train and decides to use the young man in his scheme. When Calamity Kate, a wanted outlaw woman with deadly bullwhip skills, intervenes to protect Jonah from Larry's manipulation, a confrontation erupts involving gunfire and physical combat. The narrative culminates in a violent showdown where Calamity Kate fights to save Jonah from Larry's treacherous plot.
Wild Bill Pecos and his partner Nuggets arrive at the Elder Ranch just as horse rustlers strike, leaving the ranch owner dead. When Wild Bill agrees to help Gloria Elder defend her struggling operation against the thieves, he discovers the rustlers have a treacherous plan involving a wild, untamable stallion called Widowmaker—and a scheme far more sinister than simple cattle theft. As the roundup approaches and danger closes in from all sides, Wild Bill must outwit both the criminals and the deadly forces they've set loose to claim the herd.
Nuggets Nugent would rather face just about anything than his mischievous nephew Jonah's arrival on the Tuesday train—until the locomotive mysteriously vanishes somewhere between Diobe Station and town. When Nuggets and a posse discover a hidden tunnel in the hillside, they uncover a train robbery in progress, and the ornery kid proves he's more than a match for any outlaw foolish enough to get in his way.
When rustlers strike at the Lazy Bar M ranch, its refined owner Patricia Wentworth trades her dresses for her secret identity as the fearless outlaw Calamity Kate—armed with whip, lasso, and a determination to show these cattle thieves that stealing from a woman was their worst mistake. With help from her allies, Kate tracks down the gang responsible for the raid and brings them to justice in a way only she can. It's a thrilling frontier clash where brains and grit prove mightier than brute force.
Jim Dancer rode with Quantrell's Raiders during the Civil War, but when he spoke out against the slaughter of innocent civilians, he paid a terrible price—beaten and left for dead by the man he once followed. Rescued by a Kansas farm family grieving their own losses to Quantrell's violence, Dancer slowly heals and finds himself drawn to a new life, and to Jo, the young woman who saved him. But when ghosts from his past suddenly ride back into view, Dancer must decide whether he can truly leave the shadows behind.
Molly Lownes, the so-called Queen of Hearts, has made a ruthless career of luring men into Larry Spade's rigged gambling games—until the legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Pecos rolls into town and turns her world sideways. When Molly realizes that Spade is planning to have Wild Bill killed, she must choose between the con artist's life she's always known and the man who's stolen her heart.
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Reprinted in Lurid Little Nightmare Makers #1 (2014)
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