Bob Steele #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBob Steele, stranded in the desert and dying of thirst, encounters a deadly rattlesnake while searching for water. He survives the encounter and makes his way to an oil field, where he learns that bandits led by a man named Jameson have stolen dynamite and are planning to use it to sabotage operations. Bob agrees to help stop the outlaws by guarding the oil supplies at night, setting up a confrontation with the criminals who intend to attack under cover of darkness.
Glib Gibbons finally tracks down Mapes, the con artist who swindled him out of ten dollars years ago with a fake guitar deal—only to discover his old nemesis has reinvented himself as a fortune teller calling himself a "happy medium." When Mapes refuses to make good on the debt, Glib decides it's time to settle the score with his fists and a groan-worthy pun.
In Junction City, Bob Steele comes to Old Pete's aid when a troublemaker named Luke puts the prospector in danger, earning the respect of Don José—a man whose oil-field operations across the border are being systematically sabotaged by ruthless outlaws. When Don José's critical supply wagon is ambushed on the desert trail, Bob rides along to get to the bottom of the raids, and after besting Luke in a fierce confrontation, he forces the outlaw to reveal that the gang leader Mead Jameson is behind the scheme—planning to drive Don José out so he can claim the oil leases for himself. Now Bob must track Jameson and his hideout to stop the outlaws once and for all.
Chief Gray Matter has heard every excuse before, but when Flinty shows up with big dreams of heading west to strike it rich as a pioneer, the chief's patience wears thin—especially when the pitch inevitably ends with a request for fifty dollars. This one-page western humor story plays out the age-old clash between a dreamer with grand ambitions and a skeptic who's tired of funding them.
When a hungry drifter walks into a frontier cafe looking for work, the proprietor puts him through his paces—but Fizzy's literal interpretation of orders leads to hilarious chaos. In this rollicking tale from 1951, the would-be waiter learns that following instructions might be trickier than he bargained for, especially in a place where dishes and tempers fly equally fast.
Betsy sneaks into the pantry for a taste of fresh cookies, but Ma catches her red-handed—and the quick-thinking girl scrambles to come up with a cover story before facing Ma's wrath. Will Betsy's fast talking get her out of trouble, or has she finally met her match?
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Reprinted in Six-Gun Heroes Western Comic Annual #4 (1959), Bob Steele Western #1 (1990), Bob Steele Western #55, Captain Marvel Jr. #10
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