The Westerner Comics #35

Wild Bill Pecos trades his wandering ways for the badge of marshal in Tombstone City, where he must face down the ruthless outlaw Billy Bradfield and his gang—but the real battle begins when key witnesses start disappearing and the town clamors for frontier justice over the law. With Sheriff Tom Vance determined to see Bradfield tried fairly despite the personal tragedy that has struck his own family, Wild Bill finds himself defending something harder to fight than any gunslinger: the rule of law itself.

Wild Bill Pecos and his deputy Nuggets Nugent settle into their new marshal's office in Tombstone City, but their peaceful days are cut short when a runaway stagecoach arrives carrying only death—five men mysteriously killed with no visible wounds. The driver's cryptic dying words about ghosts and white shapes in the Petrified Forest send the marshal and his reluctant partner into the eerie wasteland to uncover the truth behind the terror. As they navigate the haunted landscape and face off against strange, deadly inhabitants, Wild Bill must separate superstition from shocking reality to protect future travelers.

Nuggets Nugent finds what he thinks is a gold nugget outside Doc Stover's office and rushes to stake a claim on the land behind the doctor's building, but his attempt to keep the discovery secret spreads through town like wildfire. As prospectors and townspeople scramble to buy up nearby property, the truth about what Nuggets actually found threatens to turn the crowd against him—until a railroad surveying crew arrives with news that changes everything.

When railroad construction threatens Wish-Ram territory, trouble-shooter Doc Baker discovers an ingenious way to negotiate peace: a single silk hat captivates the warriors so completely that he promises them a whole tribe's worth of these prized garments. What begins as a clever bargain transforms the landscape of labor and respect, as a thousand happy warriors in plug hats help drag the railroad barges upriver, proving that sometimes understanding a community's desires works better than any conflict ever could.

Wild Bill Pecos, the legendary lawman of Tombstone City, loses his sight when a gunslinger's muzzle flash sears his optic nerves during a saloon confrontation—and just as he's ready to hand over his badge, the Walton Brothers gun down his loyal partner Nuggets, forcing Bill to take up the chase despite his blindness. Using heightened senses, his intelligent horse Widowmaker, and clever wits, the blind sheriff pursues the outlaws across treacherous terrain to their hideout at Buffalo Rock, where he must outmaneuver them in the dark on equal ground.

Wild Bill Pecos's old saddle pard Nuggets falls under suspicion when a stolen silver-trimmed saddle keeps turning up hidden in his boarding house room—but Wild Bill knows his friend can't be the real thief and sets a trap to catch the actual culprit. When the mystery bandit strikes again and again, Wild Bill discovers the shocking truth about why Nuggets keeps finding himself at the center of the crime. A clever tale of sleepwalking, false evidence, and frontier justice that turns the marshal's certainty on its head.