Buffalo Bill #9

Dec 1951 · Youthful · 0.10 USD

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This issue contains two main stories: "The Grim Hand of Death," featuring Buffalo Bill confronting a bearded villain on horseback, and "Swift Deer and the Russian Bear," set at Fort Sitka in 1811, where Swift Deer must prevent Russians from obtaining furs and exploiting local resources by traveling south on a dangerous journey. Additionally, an Indian legend titled "Grey Wolf and the Sacred Ruby of Amad-Re" tells of a meeting between Aztec and Kiowa leaders five hundred years in the past, where Grey Wolf, son of nature, intervenes in their conflict, and later a brave Aztec warrior defies a sacred snake pit and poison-fanged creatures through courage and knowledge of nature.

Contains 4 stories

The Grim Hand Of Death

8 pp · Western-Frontier

Trapped on an island in the Arikaree River with fifty American scouts surrounded by a thousand Cheyenne and Sioux warriors, Buffalo Bill volunteers for a nearly impossible mission: to break through enemy lines and bring back help before the starving defenders are overrun. What follows is a desperate gauntlet of cunning tricks, narrow escapes, and sheer survival instinct as Bill uses his knowledge of the land and his enemies to outrun, outwit, and outfight his pursuers in a race against time.

Swift Deer and the Russian Bear

7 pp · Western-Frontier

Swift Deer, a Ute brave, volunteers to scout the mysterious hairy palefaces encroaching from the west—only to be captured and enslaved by the Russians who've established a brutal fort on the California frontier. After escaping his chains, Swift Deer returns to his tribe to plan a desperate assault on the fort, devising a cunning strategy to breach the Russian stronghold and drive the invaders from the land.

Grey Wolf and the Sacred Ruby of Amad-Re

7 pp · Western-Frontier

An Indian storyteller recounts how five centuries ago, the Aztec chieftain Amad-Re gifted a sacred ruby to the Kiowa leader Thunder Cloud as a symbol of peace—a treasure that remains buried in Grey Wolf's ancestral lands. When a treacherous scientist and his hired guns arrive with an ancient map, they scheme to steal the ruby while appearing as peaceful visitors, forcing Grey Wolf and his loyal companion Lobo to uncover the conspiracy and protect both the sacred artifact and their people. A tale of honor, betrayal, and the price paid by those who would desecrate the honored dead.

Five Deaths

7 pp · Western-Frontier

When a crazed Cheyenne medicine man named One-Eye challenges Buffalo Bill to a series of supernatural trials—from a pit of deadly snakes to an untamed killer stallion to a deadly leap from a mountain—the legendary scout must survive each test to prevent the tribe from going to war. As Bill faces seemingly impossible odds and even apparent death, he discovers that wit and knowledge of nature's secrets may be his greatest weapons against One-Eye's dark magic. With peace hanging in the balance, Buffalo Bill must outlast every trial the medicine man can devise.