Western Hero #92

When Bill Boyd agrees to help a stranger track down his long-lost brother in the goldfields near Plainsville, he gets caught between a search for family and a dangerous scheme to steal an inheritance. The pursuit of Japh Dawson becomes far more twisted than anyone bargained for, and Bill's honesty may be the only thing standing between the truth and a deadly deception.

When Big Bow and Little Arrow scheme to sneak across a toll bridge without paying their full fare, they hatch what seems like a clever plan—until the toll keeper catches on to their trick. Now facing either jail time or a punishing cleanup job, the two find themselves scrambling to finish their task before time runs out, though Little Arrow's shortcut approach may just land them in even worse trouble. This 1950 humor tale proves that taking the easy way out usually costs more than you bargained for.

When Sam Dane returns home after three years away, he finds his father dead and a lead smelting plant erected on family land—courtesy of a forged bill of sale bearing his own signature. Monte Hale arrives just in time to help uncover a deadly scheme orchestrated by a ruthless criminal known as the Cougar, who will stop at nothing to keep the operation secret and profitable. Together, the two must outmaneuver a gang of hired guns and exposé a web of murder and fraud that threatens to destroy everything Sam's father built.

A jeweler faces hard times when business dries up, forcing him to make a drastic—and darkly comic—decision about his shop's most prominent fixture. This brief, tongue-in-cheek tale captures the wit and resourcefulness of a small-town tradesman caught between pride and survival.

Lil Buck tackles a classroom challenge when the teacher asks pupils to define molasses—and the quick-thinking youngster comes up with a comparison that's both clever and hilariously unexpected. It's a perfect example of frontier-school wit that lands exactly where you'd hope it would.

When Flim and Flam finally turn a profit at their new general store, they decide to invest their earnings in a fancy clock—much to one partner's regret. Things take a fiery turn that night, and the two find themselves learning a lesson about priorities the hard way in this humorous frontier tale.

Cactus Brain gets creative when his young son George swallows a dime—attempting to feed the boy yeast cake in hopes of raising the lost cash. This one-page gag captures the kind of scrambled frontier logic that keeps a would-be prospector perpetually one step behind his own schemes.

When escaped convict Killer Goss flees into the hills, he seeks shelter with Buff Neilson, an old cellmate—but Buff has secrets of his own, and Tom Mix is closing in with suspicions that don't quite add up. As Tom uncovers a web of deception involving stolen gold, rigged card games, and a murder that may not be what it seems, he'll need all his wits to separate the guilty from the merely desperate and bring the real culprits to justice.