Bill Boyd Western #11

Bill Boyd goes undercover to infiltrate the King gang after they rob a gold shipment, posing as a lone gunslinger to earn their trust. When the outlaws invite him to join them for a bank heist in Sawtooth Valley, Boyd finds himself trapped between his cover and his duty to warn Marshal Ellis—but time is running out, and the law is closing in on all sides.

Windy chases a ranch job by helping Rancher Blowzer with a flagpole, but his well-meaning incompetence creates chaos—and when another ranch hand gets caught in the crossfire of blame, both end up fired before Windy can even prove himself. As these two mismatched would-be workers lick their wounds, Windy stays optimistic about finding their next opportunity, much to his former co-worker's dismay.

Hammerhead tries to test a young student's knowledge of his coursework, leading to a comical misunderstanding about what algebra actually is. This quick-witted 1951 western humor tale plays on the gap between street smarts and book learning in entertaining fashion.

Brainy Buster samples some sour apples and learns a painful lesson about wordplay when a friend sets him straight—and then sets him straight with his fists! This one-page humor tale delivers a quick Western-frontier punchline that lands harder than you'd expect.

Radio Minded Randy learns a painful lesson about the consequences of his obsession with putting a radio in all the wrong places—literally—when his cousin takes matters into his own hands in this western humor tale from 1951.