Death Valley #8

When Sgt. Bart Norton rides into San Zorel for supplies, he stumbles onto a fiesta and a bullfight—and discovers a scheme by crooked gamblers to sabotage the legendary bull El Mondo through treachery. Teaming up with the quick-thinking Tony Bolt, Norton must stop the gang's plan to rig the fight and keep the real toreador Juan Tamez safe. What unfolds is a wild tale of deception, danger, and an unforgettable clash between man and beast in the arena.

Buckshot's proud of his latest invention—a reverse burglar alarm designed to alert timid folks only *after* the burglar has left the house—but this quirky contraption raises some questions about whether it'll actually help anyone feel safer. It's a short, silly gag that plays on frontier practicality meeting cartoon logic.

After twenty-four grueling hours on the Pony Express route, Bart Wade stumbles into Graham's Corners exhausted—only to be ambushed by bandits who leave him for dead while they steal a Wells-Fargo gold shipment and kidnap Mr. Graham's daughter, Linda. Roused by Linda's desperate cry for help, Wade shakes off the blow to his head and pursues the outlaws into the Mosholu Range, unarmed but determined to rescue the girl and recover the horses the gang has stolen.

Blaze Barton rides into the ghost town of Ghostown just as a fresh gold strike sends prospectors rushing in—only to discover the miners have been duped into working for ruthless operator H.J. Blackstone on starvation wages. When Barton takes a stand against the scheme, he's framed for murder and thrown into a rigged trial where the deck seems impossibly stacked against him. Now he'll have to outthink a crooked businessman and prove his innocence before justice fails him entirely.

Wagonwheels trades barbs with a tenderfoot visitor and reluctantly agrees to share a "rarely known" secret about how a tiny bird calls to his mama—a setup for a punchline as old as the frontier itself in this lighthearted one-pager from Death Valley #8.