Cowboy Western Comics #17

Young Jesse James faces accusation in the wake of the Liberty Bank robbery of 1866—a crime he may or may not have committed. When a posse corners him at a friendly doctor's home, a desperate gunfight forces the desperate young man to flee, setting him on a path that will define his outlaw legend. This historical tale explores how false accusation and frontier justice can transform a man's fate, whether guilt or innocence truly matters when the guns start blazing.

Tex Trail discovers his partner Pop Nugent bushwhacked and dead in the hills, and when the local Marshal refuses to let him see the Sheriff, Tex claims he knows the killer's identity—a calculated bluff designed to smoke out the real murderer. What unfolds is a tense game of wits as Tex uses a clever trap to expose the guilty party and prove that sometimes the most dangerous enemy wears a badge.

When a runaway horse threatens Miss Hazie Mazie, Sheriff Pistol Pete leaps to her rescue—and promptly finds himself on the trail of the notorious outlaw Rattler Rogan. This 1948 western romp pits our quick-draw hero against one of the sharpest shots in the county in a wild gunfight that tests just how tough a lawman can really be.

Wild Bill Hickok, a young station manager at Rock Creek, Kansas, faces down the troublemaking McCandlas brothers when they demand he abandon his post and the company's horse herd during the Civil War. When threats turn to gunfire, Bill discovers he's far more than a match for the gang—and proves why the frontier would soon know his name.

Sheriff John Slaughter was a man of quiet, decisive action—an Indian fighter and former Texas Ranger who built his reputation taking down outlaws and troublemakers across the frontier. When made sheriff of Cochise, he enforced the law with his own uncompromising methods, offering criminals a stark choice: leave town or face the consequences. This is the true-life tale of how a hardened lawman carved out his legend in the Arizona Territory.

The Phantom Bandit has struck three times in as many weeks, robbing shipments bound for Lee City—but Texas Ranger Frank Wilson suspects the outlaw has inside help at the bank itself. When young Tom Colt, a bank teller engaged to the banker's visiting niece, becomes the prime suspect, he must prove his innocence and expose the true culprit before the next shipment falls into the Phantom's hands.