Crack Western #82

Arizona Raines arrives at a ranch to find one of five men dead—a victim of Eric Arno, a master of disguise who's escaped from the asylum where the five partners had him committed a decade ago after he claimed they cheated him out of his mining fortune. With Arno capable of impersonating anyone and his list of four remaining targets growing desperate and paranoid, Arizona must track down the vengeful killer before fear and mistrust tear the territory apart.

In "Boss Lady!" from Crack Western #82, Jo, a woman with a sharp mind and sharper resolve, sets out to avenge her lover’s death, leading her straight to Lil, the woman she believes is responsible—after finding a torn piece of Lil’s shirt sleeve at the crime scene. The tension builds as suspicion hardens into accusation, and the frontier’s harsh truths begin to blur the line between justice and vengeance.

Johnny Lash drifts into the struggling ranch country of Mesa Bluffs looking for work, only to stumble onto a deadly scheme: rustlers are using the economic hardship to steal cattle, and when they murder a rancher, Johnny takes up the cause—but he soon discovers the real threat isn't just common thieves, but Cal Moresby, a ruthless schemer using mustang hunting as cover for his own criminal operation. As Johnny transforms into the Whip to take on Moresby's gang, the conflict escalates into all-out violence that threatens to destroy everything in its path.

When a vicious desperado named Sam Kradge sweeps into Marshal Bob Allen's town, the lawman quickly moves to run him out—but Kradge's escape is made possible by Sandy Dale, a troubled local youth Allen had tried to help, who knocks the marshal cold. Allen's mercy toward the orphan comes back to haunt him when Sandy guides Kradge to a homestead, where the outlaw and his gang commit a murder. Determined to make Kradge answer for the crime, Allen devises a cunning plan to turn the desperado's own greed against him.