Western Gunfighters #10

In the dusty frontier of 1972, a young boy named Bobby Lathrop watches in awe as the mysterious Black Rider—once a healer named Matt 'Doc' Masters—rides into the Lathrop ranch to defend it from rustlers. As the legend of the Black Rider spreads, the truth behind his masked identity begins to unfold: a past marked by loss, a father’s death at the hands of outlaws, and a vow to protect the innocent. With the Lathrop family caught in the crosshairs of the ruthless Blast Burrows, the line between doctor and outlaw blurs, and even Marie Lathrop finds herself torn between her fear of violence and her quiet admiration for the man who rides in the shadows.

In "The Human Sacrifice!", the Apache Kid, Aloysius Kare, races against time to prevent a brutal ritual when he discovers Dragon Face’s trail of burned settlers. With Red Hawk swayed by the villain’s fiery rhetoric and Mary Gregory captured, the Kid must find a way to stop the sacrifice without igniting a war he can’t control.

Matt Slade rides into Bucktown on a mission to clean up the town, invited by Mayor Brad Ferris to take down the outlaw gang led by the feared Cobra Caine. But as Slade uncovers the truth, he realizes the real danger isn’t the gang—it’s the man who summoned him.

In a dusty frontier town, undercover federal marshal Matt Slade confronts a past he’s spent years running from when he’s sent to deal with rancher Kisco Graves—ironically, the very man who once drove Slade and his father off their land. With Mort Riley as his reluctant ally, Slade must navigate a web of old grudges and new dangers, where justice and revenge blur on the edge of the law.