Cody of the Pony Express #9

Will Cody is racing the U.S. mail across the western prairie on the final leg of his Pony Express run when he spots smoke rising from a wagon train ahead—and decides to investigate what trouble might be brewing. What he discovers sets him on a collision course with danger that could derail his delivery to Laramie and his plans to celebrate with his partner Buck. In this ten-page tale from 1956, Cody finds himself caught between duty and the mysterious peril threatening the wagons.

Will Cody investigates a burned wagon train that claimed his partner Buck Thomas, convinced the massacre was more than it appeared—especially after a mysterious encounter with outlaws at a local saloon. As he pursues the real culprits, Cody finds himself caught between hostile pursuers and a conspiracy that runs deeper than frontier violence, with help arriving from an unexpected source.

Lem and Lum trade insults and accusations over a poorly-repaired shirt, their bickering escalating from clever quips to threats of violence in this humorous frontier tale. When tempers finally boil over, one bad punch settles the score—though perhaps not the way anyone intended.