Black Fury #53

When a fever-stricken Black Fury is challenged and defeated by a rival stallion in his own territory, the great mustang is forced to seek shelter in the foothills—where he encounters Pete Morris, an eighteen-year-old boy who's just lost everything to a ruthless drifter named Shag Buxton. Finding the sick stallion near water's edge, Pete uses farmhand knowledge and wild herbs to nurse Black Fury back from the brink of death, forging an unexpected bond between two outcasts. What unfolds when the fever breaks and the stallion's strength returns remains to be seen.

In "Silvertip Killer," Black Fury finds himself caught between loyalty to a wounded mare and the fierce, silver-maned bear that guards its territory—when hunters arrive with guns, he must decide who deserves protection in the wild.

In "An Oath To Kill," Black Fury finds himself captured by Holgar, who vows to either break him or kill him. After escaping, Black Fury is pursued across the frontier by Holgar and his vicious stallion, White Killer, whose bloodlust matches his rider’s. When the two horses clash, the tide turns violently—only for White Killer to turn on Holgar when the shooting begins. Fleeing in terror, Holgar abandons his mount, and White Killer, now broken from his master’s cruelty, joins Black Fury as one of the Ramada.

Sheriff Buck Scanlon has ruled his town for four years with an iron fist and a quick gun, bending everyone to his will—until a stubborn man named Olson refuses to stay silent about the sheriff's ruthless abuse of power. When Scanlon tries to silence him and seize the spotlight at the town's anniversary parade, his own mistreated pinto stallion has other plans, and one humiliating moment in front of a thousand witnesses changes everything.