Tim Holt #38

In "Return of the Black Phantom!" from Tim Holt #38, the Black Phantom—once a feared outlaw—tries to leave her past behind. But when she attempts to surrender her old gang, they betray her, turning her into a pawn in a deadly trap set for Redmask.

When phantom guns wielding an eerie, otherworldly force begin terrorizing ranchers in Feather Gap, the Ghost Rider arrives as federal marshal Rex Fury to investigate—only to discover the terror is part of a scheme to ignite open war between the settlers and the local ranching families. With tensions about to explode into bloodshed, the Ghost Rider must uncover who's behind the phantom guns before hundreds die in the conflict.

When a mysterious criminal calling himself the Cape uses seemingly supernatural powers to rob the townsfolk of Bullet, Deputy Sheriff Tim Holt realizes that "magic" might be trickery masking a very human criminal mind. As the Cape escalates from robbing a theatre audience to raiding the town bank and ambushing a train carrying cash, Tim hatches a plan to predict the thief's next move and finally corner him. With his wits pitted against an opponent who claims command over fire, water, and stone itself, Tim must stay one step ahead—or be buried under the Cape's next deadly "spell."

When ranch cookie Mex Lallipoosa receives a garish mail-order suit and innocently wears it to town, he becomes an unwitting target for a ruthless outlaw gang—who seem bent on either stealing the clothes or silencing him entirely. Deputy Sheriff Tim Holt must uncover why this eye-catching suit has made the mild-mannered cook so valuable to the criminals, even as he battles the gang's relentless pursuit. Redmask takes the fight directly to the owlhoots in a desperate bid to learn the truth behind their obsession with the crazy-quilt suit.