Western Gunfighters #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Comanches Strike!", the Black Rider returns to his quiet life as Doc Masters, only to find his peaceful routine upended when he rescues an unconscious woman named Lola from a stagecoach robbery. As he tends to her at his medical office, his girlfriend Marie grows suspicious—especially when Lola’s true intentions begin to surface. With danger closing in and his identity at risk, the Black Rider must reclaim his masked vigilante persona before it’s too late. Syd Shores handles both pencils and inks for the story, while John Severin delivers the striking cover art.
When the Black Rider saves an unconscious woman from an outlaw ambush, he brings her to his clinic as Doc Masters—unaware that she’s Lola Montace, the very ringleader of the gang he just defeated. As Marie Lathrop grows suspicious of the attention, the truth unravels in dangerous ways, forcing the Black Rider to step back into the shadows to protect them both.
When the Apache Kid stumbles upon a stagecoach massacre with Comanche warpaint on the killers, he quickly realizes the scalps are a ruse—these aren't real raiders, but outlaws in disguise. With the boy in danger and a corrupt guardian scheming to steal his inheritance, the Kid must untangle a deadly deception before the real threat arrives.
In "The Rails of Death!", Luke Roseby, stagecoach operator and fierce defender of his land, wages a desperate war against the encroaching railroad—enlisting Red Rain and his warriors to strike at the construction crews. But as the Apache Kid, known to the world as Aloysius Kane, he moves in secret, torn between loyalty to his people and the dangerous mission to stop Roseby’s escalating violence.
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↩ Reprints Apache Kid #53 [1] (1950), Black Rider #19 (1953), The Outlaw Kid #13 (1956)
Reprinted in L'incroyable Hulk #20 (1973), Fantastic Four #23 (1973), Fantastic Four #24 (1973), Fantastic Four #60 (1976), Héroes del Oeste #303
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