Gunsmoke #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue contains two Western stories. "Gunsmoke" follows federal marshals hunting down the outlaws Lafferty and Hodges, who are captured after a tense confrontation and taken into custody. "The Masked Marvel" features the mysterious hero battling the "Badmen of Salt Lick"—a gang of outlaws who are defeated when the Masked Marvel intervenes with gunfire and intervention. The second story shifts to the Civil War era, following a woman named Belle Starr who becomes entangled with a mysterious Union cavalry colonel and a guerrilla camp, leading to a dangerous confrontation involving hidden identity and wartime intrigue.
Gunsmoke and Pedro's routine ride through the frontier town of Leadwood takes a dark turn when they stumble upon a dying man with a mysterious diary—pages stained in blood that point to a conspiracy involving the town's two most powerful men, Lafferty and Hodges. When assassins come for them that night, Gunsmoke and Pedro find themselves trapped in a town where the law itself may be working against them, and a rope is being prepared to silence them for good. It's a race against time as Gunsmoke faces a lynching while Pedro must outthink a mob determined to see justice twisted into revenge.
A ruthless killer prowls the shadows of Maverick, leaving a grim calling card—a hangman's noose—on each of his victims. Sheriff Rex Gregor races to uncover the killer's identity and motive before the body count rises, only to discover that the truth hits far closer to home than he ever suspected. With clues hidden in wanted posters and a web of deception spanning from Tucson to his own town, the sheriff must untangle a revenge plot rooted in the past.
When bandits strike the gold shipments from Salt Lick's mines with ghostly precision, even Sheriff Jeff Drew finds himself outmatched—and the town begins to doubt his ability to lead. The Masked Marvel [Slim Crane] arrives undercover as a timid millionaire's son, but when a stagecoach holdup turns deadly, he sheds his disguise to save the passengers and uncover the gang's true leader. Now Marvel must track the bandits to their hideout in the Candlelight Mountains and face off against the ruthless Tate Morton to restore order to Salt Lick.
When her brother dies in a guerrilla raid during the Civil War, Belle Starr swears vengeance on the notorious raider Quantrill and offers herself as a Union spy embedded in his camp. Working undercover to gather intelligence on Quantrill's movements, Belle must use her wits—and her sharp-shooting skills—to stay alive among the dangerous guerrillas while feeding crucial information back to Colonel Lane's cavalry. Her mission to avenge her brother and protect her Missouri home becomes a desperate race against time when her cover is blown.
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