Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal #18
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWyatt Earp encounters a man named Jax Motrey, who claims to be a former acquaintance, and is offered a scheme to stage a robbery and split the proceeds as a bonus. Earp rejects the criminal proposition and pledges to enforce the law properly. In the story "A Dangerous Dandy," Earp must deal with a well-dressed drifter who causes trouble at a train junction; after the man insults locals and attempts to pass through town, Earp pursues him into the countryside where he discovers the dandy is secretly a bushwhacker using the refined appearance as cover for his criminal activities.
Wyatt Earp faces off against Felix Dupres, a gunslinger with a trick spring holster who boasts he's faster on the draw than the marshal himself. When Dupres and his gang move to steal a gold shipment, Earp must rely on his wits and nerve to outmaneuver a man whose "magic draw" has already bested other lawmen. A clever showdown that proves sometimes the fastest gun isn't the one who thinks fastest.
Wyatt Earp takes the marshal's job in the lawless town of End-of-Track, quickly earning a reputation for tough enforcement—until local businessman Jax Moltry, whose gambling operations depend on keeping things wild, orchestrates a scheme to strip Earp of his guns and force him out. When Moltry sends two hired gunfighters to challenge the now-unarmed marshal, Earp discovers that a man's reputation and courage can matter more than firepower in a frontier showdown.
Wyatt Earp arrives in Lobo Junction dressed to the nines as best man for his friend Chick Hovey's wedding—a pleasure trip where he's determined to keep his fine clothes spotless and his guns holstered. When a local thug named Boots Danker and his gang take offense at the marshal's fancy appearance and begin harassing both Wyatt and the bride-to-be, Wyatt finds himself caught between staying respectable for the ceremony and defending his friends from trouble. A dapper gunfighter puts his reputation for careful dress to the test when bullets start flying.
A stranger passing through No Man's Gulch finds an elderly man shot dead and brings the body to town, only to be accused of the murder by locals eager for a quick hanging. Wyatt Earp, as sheriff, insists on evidence over mob justice and begins investigating what really happened at the Devers ranch—uncovering a scheme far more sinister than a simple bushwhacking. The truth about oil, greed, and a shot fired in the dark will decide who truly deserves justice.
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↩ Reprints Hopalong Cassidy #42 (1950)
Reprinted in Wyatt Earp #20 (1957)
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