The Westerner Comics #30

When a brutal drought leaves a frontier town desperate for water, the ruthless villain Bull Durko seizes control of the supply and bleeds the community dry with outrageous prices—until Wild Bill Pecos and his partner Nuggets Nugent arrive and decide to even the odds. As Durko frames them for poisoning the waterholes and turns the law against them, Wild Bill must outwit not just the sheriff's posse but Durko himself to expose the real culprit and restore water as the free resource it ought to be. This high-action tale of justice in the parched West delivers gunfights, desperate chases, and the kind of frontier heroism that made "The Water Rustlers!" a standout in The Westerner Comics #30.

Wild Bill Pecos, the deadliest gunman in the West, accepts the marshal's badge in Peaceville—a town where firearms are strictly forbidden. When bank robber Ben Slade and his gang flee across the state border into this peaceful sanctuary, Wild Bill realizes he'll have to outthink dangerous killers without his guns. Can the greatest gunman alive survive a showdown when he's forced to leave his weapons behind?

Set in an Army post in Indian Territory in 1874, an old soldier spins a haunting tale of the Bugler Boy of Custer's Seventh Cavalry—a young trooper who, mortally wounded at the Little Big Horn, summoned his final strength to sound the alarm "To Arms!" on his trumpet. Now, troopers swear that whenever danger approaches, the phantom notes of that same bugle call echo across the prairie, warning them of attacks to come—a legend born from one soldier's unwavering duty and witnessed by those who heard it with their own ears.

When a new schoolteacher from the East, Martha Alden, arrives to educate the rough frontier town, she clashes with deputy sheriff Jeff Tyler over curriculum—but her real troubles begin when masked riders try to drive her out. With help from the mysterious Calamity Kate, Martha and Jeff must survive a deadly ambush at the schoolhouse using nothing but wit, quick thinking, and a lesson straight from American history.

When a wagon train bound for the remote settlement of Lost Gap is ambushed and massacred, Wild Bill Pecos and his sidekick Nuggets Nugent discover a sole survivor: Spike Jensen, a man with a mysterious connection to the tragedy. As Wild Bill volunteers to escort the next supply convoy through dangerous territory, he begins to suspect that the attacks concealing something far more sinister than bandit raids—and Spike Jensen may hold the key to the whole deadly plot.