Crack Western #70

Arizona Raines and his sidekick Spurs ride into Sweetgrass Valley just as a ruthless businessman named Cash Morson tightens his stranglehold on the region's water supply—literally owning every drop and charging exorbitant prices to desperate ranchers and townspeople. When Arizona discovers that Morson's hired guns will kill to protect the water monopoly, he decides the time has come to take matters into his own hands, even if it means operating outside the law. With a sympathetic sheriff turning a blind eye and the whole valley behind him, Arizona sets out to dismantle Morson's scheme in "Water Hogs Die Broke."

Marshal Bob Allen thought he'd finally caught Aces Spade red-handed running a crooked gambling operation—but the scheming saloon boss has one last trick up his sleeve: summoning the beautiful Lana Drake from back East with a sinister plan to use her charm as a weapon against the lawman. When Lana arrives to sing at the Ace of Spades, Marshal Allen finds himself drawn to her, unaware that he's walking straight into a deadly setup orchestrated by his most cunning enemy yet.

Two-Gun Lil Peters rolls into Hondo City to find Marshal Seaton at the mercy of Big Bat McGrew, a brutal outlaw who terrorizes the town every few months and nobody can stop him. When Lil decides to take on the job herself, she discovers that Big Bat's weakness isn't guns—it's charm, and she's got plenty of it. Watch as she outsmarts the toughest brawler in the county using tactics he never saw coming.

In "Crimson Vengeance," a young boy haunted by the brutal murder of his parents on the frontier is rescued by a mysterious man named Pedro, who teaches him to wield a whip with deadly precision. Now seventeen and driven by a quiet fury, he sets out across the harsh western landscape to track down the men who took everything from him.

When Arizona Raines and his partner Spurs stumble upon a desperate young woman fleeing for her life on Deadeye Ranch, they uncover a sinister scheme involving murder, stolen land, and a secret that's worth killing for. As Arizona pieces together the truth about Harmony Holden's father and the mysterious forces keeping her from her own property, the stakes escalate into a gunfight that will determine who controls the ranch—and who survives the night. Written and illustrated by the talented creators of this 1951 Crack Western tale, "Mystery Riders on Deadeye Ranch!" delivers frontier justice with a twist of greed and betrayal.