Wild Bill Hickok #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Wild Bill Hickok and the Border Outlaws The issue presents two stories featuring Wild Bill Hickok. In the first, Hickok battles border outlaws led by a man named Ruff and his partner Ox, who are attempting to ambush a wagon train carrying new repeater rifles intended for military use; Hickok foils their scheme and recovers the weapons. In the second story, Hickok encounters a mysterious character named Dave, a Redskin who possesses unusual combat skills and claims to want the buffalo hides that hunters are collecting; after a violent confrontation involving the destruction of hides and a struggle that knocks war paint from Dave's face, revealing his true identity, Hickok determines to keep Dave's origins secret.
In the waning days of the Civil War, Wild Bill Hickok is sent south as an Army scout to infiltrate the forces of Don Miguel Espazino, a Mexican general raising an army of outlaws and mercenaries to reclaim Texas and the Southwest for Mexico. Posing as a gunslinger-for-hire, Wild Bill works his way into Don Miguel's inner circle while secretly gathering intelligence—but his cover is nearly blown when he's forced to intervene in a dangerous moment with Angelina, the captive daughter of a loyal American whose allegiance to the United States has earned him chains in Don Miguel's hacienda. As Wild Bill navigates the treacherous camp, he discovers Angelina knows his true purpose and offers her own help, setting the stage for a dangerous alliance in the heart of the enemy's stronghold.
When a supply convoy of cavalry wagons falls to a Sioux ambush led by Red Cloud, Wild Bill Hickok uncovers a treacherous scheme: a scout named Spanish Joe has been selling out army rifle shipments to the Indians in exchange for gold. Wild Bill sets a clever trap, planting false information and laying an ambush of his own with a shipment of cutting-edge repeating rifles that turns the tables on the raiders. As tensions escalate and Red Cloud marshals thousands of warriors for a final confrontation, Wild Bill races to deliver the new weapons to the frontier forts before it's too late.
Dave Mathers rolls into Dodge City in 1872 as a fast gun with a mysterious streak—he takes work as deputy marshal, cleans up the town with blazing gunplay, then vanishes without explanation. What the townsfolk don't suspect is that their mysterious helper has a hidden agenda far darker than they imagine, playing a dangerous game that keeps him disappearing into the night. When a wandering evangelist arrives to reform the town's worst killer, Dave's carefully balanced double life faces an unexpected reckoning.
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Reprinted in Wild Bill Hickok #21 (1954), Wild Bill Hickok #2 (1955), Colt Western Library #42 (1960), Wild Bill Hickok #12 (1964)
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