Thrilling Comics #73

Buck Ranger and his Mexican partner Chico Charlie ride into the dangerous outlaw territory of Ramapo to dismantle a gang of rustlers and killers—but their plan to infiltrate the operation by posing as outlaws puts them squarely in the sights of the gang's cunning leader, Stout Steve Silver. With only three days to gather evidence and bring the criminals to justice, Buck must navigate a treacherous saloon, a crooked sheriff, and the suspicions of everyone in town to root out the brains behind the rustling operation.

When Princess Pantha and Dane Hunter arrive in New Zealand, they witness a village betrothal ceremony where young Malo must prove his courage by climbing the Fire Mountain—a challenge complicated by his deep-seated fear of volcanoes born from childhood tragedy. But when Kava, the chief's jealous son, sabotages the test with stolen dynamite to scare Malo away from his beloved Nylana, Pantha must race up the mountain to protect them from both treachery and the volcano's awakening fury.

Kathy Crane's father, Paul, gets stuck with a promise he can't keep—to find a job for the boss's client's son—so Kathy takes matters into her own hands and places a classified ad to drum up work. What starts as a simple solution backfires spectacularly when the ad gets misread and suddenly Paul finds himself fielding job offers from all over town, each one more bewildering than the last.

When Terrible Tess Tuzzlewit decides romance is the weapon to neutralize Looie Lazybones once and for all, she enlists a magical love potion from an old conjure woman—but the spell comes with a twelve-hour limit, and a case of mistaken identity sends everything wildly off the rails. With feuding families, a bewildered hero, and a very confused cow named Tess, this hillbilly comedy proves that even the best-laid plans can backfire in the most hilarious ways.

"Yankee Peddler" traces the rise of America's itinerant salesmen from their origins in 1740s New England, when tin-makers first saw an opportunity to distribute household goods across the colonies. Watch these enterprising traders swap, sell, and scheme their way through rural roads and frontier settlements, building fortunes and spreading New England's products from coast to coast—until the railroads changed everything.