Bat Masterson #2
In "The Lead Souvenir," Bat Masterson encounters a wounded bank robber in the desert brush, tenders him aid, and hands him the extracted bullet as a keepsake—only for the man to later send a cryptic message that leads Bat to thwart a new robbery. Written by Gaylord Du Bois and illustrated by Bob Forgione, with inks by Jerry Robinson and letters by Ben Oda, this 1960 Dell Western delivers quiet tension and a touch of frontier justice in a 10-cent tale from the Old West.
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Bat finds a wounded bank robber in the mesquite, addresses him as "boy," digs the bullet from the fellow's spine, gives it to him, the fellow says, "It will make a souvenir!" A week later, Bat spots the fellow, thinks to himself, "the boy in the brush." The fellow gets a message to Bat enabling him to foil the bank robbers.
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