Six-Gun Heroes #7

Lamebrain Lem tries to impress the Jenks family with proper manners at dinner, mimicking Mr. Jenks’s every move—until he accidentally pours milk into a saucer, only to realize he’s been misled. When a stranger later tries to pass a counterfeit coin, Lem’s nervousness leads him to act on instinct, setting off a chain of events that brings him face-to-face with a gang of counterfeiters.

In the lawless frontier town of Mariposa, roving marshal Lash Larue investigates a strange paradox: a town with a spotless record of arrests and convictions, yet flooded with outlaws. As he uncovers a web of rigged trials and forced labor, Lash deliberately provokes the sheriff to be arrested, hoping to expose the truth from within the brutal road camp where convicts are worked to death.

Smiley Burnette, editor of Rock Head Territory’s only newspaper and a man who loves music, finds himself tangled in a bizarre heist when a mysterious figure known as Big John hijacks a benefit dance for the Old Horses' Home—using a bull fiddle as both disguise and weapon. As the town dances, Smiley tries to outwit the thief with his trusty Smiley-O-Phone, only to discover the real culprit was hiding inside the very instrument he thought was a prop.

In "Busy Bisby," a perpetually energetic cowboy named Bisby wakes his sleepy companion Chuck, claiming he’s done no work while Chuck napped—though Chuck had only just dozed off. Bisby boasts that his endless activity is a victory of will over rest, setting up a lighthearted contrast between the two men’s approaches to downtime.

Rocky Lane, undercover marshal, joins a wagon train of pioneers crossing dangerous Indian territory, where two guides he suspects of treachery lead the group toward a deadly ambush. As the train nears Blackstone Pass, Rocky uncovers a plot to lure the pioneers into an Indian trap, then escapes captivity to devise a daring plan using decoy wagons and gunpowder to turn the tide.

Ten Gallon Tex is frustrated after losing a silver dollar, much to his dismay, and his friend Ferdy tries to help him figure out where it might have gone. As they search, a sudden realization hits — the man who dropped it must have heard it fall.