Kid Montana #19
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue contains three stories. "Circus Brawl" opens with Buck Desmond arriving in Valley Flats to discover a ruckus in town caused by a young rider, which leads to a confrontation with armed gunmen led by a man named Rego; Buck intervenes and learns from Mayor Elijah Summers that wealthy ranchers from Morgan City are feuding with Valley Flats over the location of an upcoming state fair, with hired drifters causing trouble to influence the decision. "Kid Montana" follows as the main feature, depicting Kid Montana in a snowy confrontation with outlaws Dutch Otto and Spallone, where he fights to prevent them from escaping in a gulch. The issue also includes "The Outcast," "Wolf-Bait," and "The Loafer" stories, plus a Charlton Comics contest offering prizes including a Buster Crabbe swimming pool, Schwinn bikes, and a $1000 savings bond.
Kid Montana is forced to leave town after being framed for trouble by local outlaws, but he stays nearby, watching from the shadows as he uncovers their plan to rob the town’s cash shipment. Though the townspeople see him as a menace, he’s determined to stop the real criminals—even if it means facing down both the gang and the posse hunting him.
Kid Montana finds a terrified stray dog in the wild frontier, mistaking it for a wolf in the dark. Though he initially aims to shoot, he hesitates upon realizing the creature is just a scared, wounded mutt—and soon takes it upon himself to protect the dog and help it find its owner, even as a pack of hungry wolves close in.
Trail Wolves follows the tense standoff between two fugitives, the Cactus Kid and Trace Hobart, as they flee a law posse after a bank robbery, their mutual distrust growing with every mile. With no sleep and guns always within reach, their paranoia turns them into enemies as much as their pursuers, each fearing the other will betray them for the loot. The story builds to a moment of exhaustion where their shared desperation leaves them vulnerable—just as the posse closes in.
Kid Montana stays behind in a frozen gulch with three other prospectors after a blizzard cuts them off, choosing to focus on survival rather than gold mining. While the others obsess over digging for riches, he secretly prepares by hunting and stockpiling food and firewood, knowing winter will test them all. As hunger and cold drive the others to desperation, their fate becomes tied to the one who stayed ahead of the storm.
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Reprinted in Kid Montana #60 (1959), Le Fantôme #98 (1966), Le Fantôme Spécial #44 (1967), Sinister Tales #55 (1968), Le Fantôme Spécial #1 (1973), Secrets of the Unknown #241 (1987), Creepy Worlds #71, Secrets of the Unknown #71, Secrets of the Unknown #75
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