Wild Bill Hickok #7
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWild Bill Hickok and a young man named Jimmy encounter outlaws from Hell's Bend who have wounded a cavalry regiment. After a fierce battle in which Wild Bill uses his guns and cunning to fight off the Sioux attackers, he and Jimmy must escape with buckskins to deflect arrows. The story shifts to a subplot involving Buck Roper's announcement of his engagement to Marilyn, creating tension when her father forbids the relationship and demands she marry someone else, ultimately leading to a confrontation at a preacher's lodgings.
When White Eagle of the Nez Perce ventures into the mountains seeking his spiritual power, he stumbles upon two ruthless killers—Shoshone John and Piute Pete—who murder a prospector for his gold mine and pursue the young man to silence him. Wild Bill Hickok arrives just in time with his sixguns blazing, setting off a clash that wounds them both and draws them into the Nez Perce camp, where they recover and forge an unexpected bond. But when the killers resurface at Fort Laramie with fresh schemes, Wild Bill and his new allies must ride hard to stop them before innocent blood is spilled.
When young buffalo hunters Jimmy Williams and Chuckawalla Jones stake their claim in the Medicine Ridge foothills, they catch the attention of Laredo Larry Taggart and his ruthless band of killers—who see easy prey and a fortune in stolen hides. Wild Bill Hickok arrives just as the outlaws close in, throwing his guns and wits into the fight to save the skinners from a massacre. Now Taggart's out for blood, and he's got vengeance, numbers, and a canyon ambush on his side.
When the Overland Telegraph pushes westward across buffalo country during the Civil War, a Sioux uprising led by Spotted Dog threatens to destroy the telegraph line and the men stringing it—and with the nation consumed by war, there's no military support to spare. Wild Bill Hickok learns of the coming attack and devises a daring scheme to save the telegraphers, but he'll need more than marksmanship and grit to stop a warpath that could cost the Union the West. With time running out and the odds stacked impossibly high, Hickok rides toward "The Talking Wires" to make a stand.
When John Watkins, the Fighting Parson, arrives in Blanco's Run to preach, he's drawn into a murder mystery that threatens an innocent man's life—and traps a young woman named Marilyn in the grip of an unscrupulous gambler's blackmail. As the truth about who really killed banker Silas Goff unravels, Marilyn must choose between protecting her father and saving a condemned man from the gallows. The parson's faith will be tested when only gunfire can cut through the web of lies and greed that has taken hold of the town.
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↩ Reprints Cow Puncher Comics #2 (1947)
Reprinted in Wild Bill Hickok #7, Wild Bill Hickok Comics #2
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