Cowboy Western Comics #24

A desperate bank robber named Ross McEwen flees across the New Mexican frontier after a crime born of necessity, only to find his path intersecting with Fay Hollister, a railroad nurse whose affection complicates his escape—and whose presence forces him to confront who he truly wants to be. When U.S. Marshall Pat Garrett closes in, Ross faces a choice between running and staying to help a family struck by illness, a decision that will test whether mercy and justice can ever find common ground. Adapted from Eugene Manlove Rhodes's novel, this tale proves that sometimes a man's character is revealed not by the crime he commits, but by the humanity he discovers along the way.

A prospector who's spent forty years digging in the desert finally strikes gold and heads to town for a well-earned celebration, but when he entrusts his hard-won nuggets to the sheriff for safekeeping, his clever hiding spot becomes the setup for a comic turn of fate in this humorous western tale by Clinton Harmon. What should be his moment of triumph quickly unravels in ways that'll make you laugh at the ironies of frontier fortune.

In "Jessie Meets Phoebe Arnold," a young woman named Phoebe Arnold finds herself in trouble on the frontier, drawing the unexpected protection of a man known only as Jessie. When the Arnold payroll vanishes shortly after, Jessie becomes the prime suspect—though he’s determined to clear his name by uncovering the true thief, leading him straight to the heart of the deception.