Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal #29
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWyatt Earp must prevent a young gunslinger named Johnny from being manipulated by the outlaw King Fisher, who has befriended the boy and plans to use him as bait to lure Earp into a trap. When Fisher's scheme is discovered, Earp takes Johnny away from the danger, but the boy remains conflicted about his dangerous new friend. The story culminates in a confrontation where Earp must outwit Fisher and his gang, including the duplicitous Cansel and Mike Sligo, to protect Johnny and bring the outlaws to justice.
When a gold strike transforms a sleepy frontier town into a lawless boomtown, Wyatt Earp finds himself caught between hooded vigilantes—who claim to protect the miners—and a more sinister group of masked raiders using the same disguise to plunder claims. Earp must uncover the truth behind the hoods before the line between justice and mob rule disappears entirely.
When a cocky young gunslinger named Johnny Butler rides into Dodge vowing to prove himself against Wyatt Earp, the marshal finds himself caught between duty and mercy—especially when Johnny's desperate mother appears pleading for her son's life. But before Earp can talk the hot-headed kid down, a far more dangerous threat arrives in town: King Fisher, the ruthless outlaw who taught Johnny everything he knows, and Earp must decide whether to call in reinforcements or face the legendary gunman alone.
Young Jim Clagg claimed the best homestead during the land rush, but his cowardice cost him when the ruthless Mike Sligo muscled in—and now Sligo's back with robbery and revenge on his mind. When Sligo targets both Clagg's ranch and his neighbors, Jim must finally find the courage he's been lacking, or watch everyone around him suffer the consequences. "A Coward Fights" is a frontier tale about a man discovering that being a real man means standing up, no matter the cost.
Wyatt Earp infiltrates the lawless outpost known as Gunman's Paradise, ruled by the ruthless Johnny Gansel, and uses cunning psychology and card-sharp tactics to turn the hardened criminals against one another while secretly arranging for a posse to close in. As tensions mount between Earp and Gansel's gang, the marshal must outthink and outfight some of the West's meanest gunmen to dismantle their criminal stronghold from within.
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Reprinted in Banga #7 (1968), Mandrake #204 (1969)
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