Billy the Kid #47

Oct 1964 · Charlton · 0.12 USD

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# Billy the Kid #47 The issue contains two main stories. In "The Seeds of Violence," Billy the Kid comes to town seeking revenge against an ambusher who killed his old pal Sam Curran, and confronts the culprit in a showdown while also becoming involved with a stage company and a bank robbery by the Simco Gang. A separate text story details how "Three Gun Thompson," a famous gunslinger, became an actor after winning a high-stakes poker game with the sheriff, eventually marrying Nancy Higgins and finding success in California before being pursued to recover his earnings. The final comic segment features Dave Curran seeking shells and supplies in the badlands while hunting down Billy the Kid, with Harish preparing to confront both Dave and Billy in a climactic encounter.

Contains 6 stories

Uhlan Renegade

8 pp · Western-Frontier

A disgraced German cavalry officer turned Comanche war-chief, Count Hans Von Kummer unleashes a cunning trap when he raids the Texas trail town of Lonsdale and abducts a young woman—banking on his pursuers' desperation to rescue her. Billy the Kid must outthink Von Kummer's military genius and superior numbers to stop the renegade and free the captive from the Comanche camp. In "Uhlan Renegade," strategy and quick thinking clash with ruthless discipline in a showdown that will test whether brains beat bullets on the frontier.

The One Who Stayed

1 pp · Western-Frontier

A farmer and a cowboy both arrive in White Creek Basin with opposite dreams—one seeking steady livelihood through hard work, the other chasing quick riches and empire on the open range. As fortune shifts beneath them both, their contrasting choices in the face of hardship reveal which man truly belongs to the frontier. "The One Who Stayed" is a tale of perseverance and consequence set in the untamed West.

The Finger of Fear

5 pp · Western-Frontier

Billy the Kid faces a gypsy's dire prophecy—a grave waiting for him in Boot Hill—as a vengeful saloonkeeper named O.K. O'Connor orchestrates a campaign of violence to drive the young gunslinger out of town. With hired killers closing in and the sound of a grave being dug echoing through the streets, Billy must outwit O'Connor's schemes and prove the fortune-teller's words wrong before sundown.

The Undertaker

2 pp · Western-Frontier

When Texas Ranger O'Gara rides into Snake Canyon, a deadly bushwhacker named Rubio Gomez lies in wait—a hired killer who prides himself on never missing a contract. But the wily ranger reads the signs in the desert itself, using the vultures circling overhead to uncover the trap before it's sprung. "The Undertaker" is a tense 1964 frontier showdown where brains prove faster than bullets.

The Seed of Violence

8 pp · Western-Frontier

Billy the Kid finds himself drawn into a deadly confrontation when his old friend Sam Curran is ambushed and killed—and suspicion falls on Sam's volatile younger brother Dave, now working for a horse rancher with secrets of his own. Billy realizes he's being manipulated into a showdown, but when Dave comes looking for a reckoning, the two must face off in the badlands to uncover the truth behind Sam's murder. A tense tale of loyalty, gunplay, and the dangerous men who hide behind lies.

Plow Jockey

1 pp · Western-Frontier

A mean cattle rustler named Slade Cole makes the mistake of harassing a homesteader and his wife—and discovers that some farmers are more than willing to defend their land with buckshot. When Joe Blackman and his wife stand their ground against Cole's intimidation, the rustler learns a hard lesson about picking on the unarmed.