Super DC Giant #S-22
In "The Betrayal of Johnny Thunder!" from Super DC Giant #S-22 (1971), writer Robert Kanigher and artist Gil Kane deliver a taut Western thriller as Johnny Thunder races through a town under siege by the Rapidan Gang. With sharp shooting and relentless pace, Johnny dodges traps and outruns danger in a high-stakes gauntlet through the streets, while old Billy Smith watches from his corner—his story echoing the past. Cover by Joe Kubert captures the wild, dusty tension of a frontier on edge.
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Old Billy Smith sits in "Smith's Gauntlet" street and relates how he ran a gauntlet when this was Indian territory. "When the West was wild!" Johnny Thunder patrols because the posse hunts the Rapidan Gang. But the gang has infiltrated town! Soon he's dashing through alleys, diving through doors, getting dragged by a horse - running his own "gauntlet". Sharp shooting knocks guns awry and snips frees JT from a lasso. The gang is captured. And old Billy Smith renames the street "Smith's and Thunder's Gauntlet". "You never kin tell when [the West] is goin' to get wild again!"
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