Frontier Western #5
In "Luke Barker He Was Bad Clean Thru!", Stan Lee and Jack Davis deliver a raw, character-driven Western where a wronged man’s quest for justice spirals into a reckoning with loss and isolation. After being falsely imprisoned for a stolen sewing machine, Luke Barker returns home to find his mother dead and the store owner who wronged him also gone—leaving him alone in a world that has turned its back on him. The story’s emotional weight is matched by Russ Heath’s striking cover, capturing the tension and defiance of a man pushed to the edge.
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Luke Barker demands a refund on a faulty sewing machine from store owner Jenkins. He is arrested for theft and sentenced to a year in jail. Upon release he returns home to find his mother dead and buried. Kicking in the front door of the store he hears that Jenkins has also died. Rejected and ostracized by all, he redeems himelf when he fools a band of marauding Indians into thinking that the cavalry is attacking them.
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