Gunsmoke #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Gunsmoke #3 This issue contains multiple Western action stories. The main story features Gunsmoke and his men facing off against the rival Ringo faction in a violent confrontation, with Gunsmoke's crew fighting for homes and survival while Ringo's men fight merely for pay. A subplot involves a gold shipment from Kansas City bound for Virginia City that becomes the target of bandits; when the stage is robbed and the gold goes missing, Sheriff Linden pursues the thieves across the territory. The Masked Marvel also appears in a story involving a character named Faro who has killed the Marvel's brother and framed him for a crime, leading the Marvel to seek revenge while protecting a young boy from Faro's pursuit.
When a young woman's runaway wagon nearly sends her over a cliff, Gunsmoke and his partner Pedro step in to save her—only to discover she's Jane Fowler, caught in the crosshairs of Trey Warner, the ruthless freight magnate trying to crush her father's rival hauling business. Gunsmoke agrees to help the Fowlers meet their contract deadline by recruiting tough workers from the mines, but Warner has no intention of letting them succeed and sets a deadly ambush in Gunsight Pass. With dynamite, quick reflexes, and a hefty dose of frontier justice, Gunsmoke turns the tables on his would-be killers.
When Ringo Sears swears vengeance on Sheriff Jeff Linden after a humiliating encounter, he hatches a clever scheme with his recently freed brother Deuce—using a phoney beard and careful timing to frame himself for a series of daring robberies while maintaining an ironclad alibi. Sheriff Linden grows increasingly suspicious as the Ghost Bandit strikes again and again, each time with witnesses swearing it's Ringo, only to find the gambler calmly present elsewhere in town. Now the lawman must untangle an ingenious con before Ringo and Deuce vanish with a fortune.
Chip Faro has ruthlessly eliminated Sheriff Dave Turner to seize control of Mesa City, but frames Turner's own brother—the Kid—for the murder, setting a lynch mob on his trail. When the Masked Marvel stumbles upon the wounded fugitive in a remote canyon, he takes up the cause to expose Faro's treachery and restore justice to a town held hostage by corruption and greed. With his deadly six-guns and quick wits, the Masked Marvel moves into position for a reckoning in "Song of the Six-Guns."
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Reprinted in Big Easter Gift Comics #[nn] (1950), The Masked Marvel #1 (1953), The Rocket's Blast-Comicollector #126 (1976), Gunsmoke #3
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