Western Hero #97

# Western Hero #97 This issue contains multiple stories. "The Gun Runners" by Dick Kraus follows border patrol guardians Slim Carson and Sheriff Jed Wiley as they pursue the outlaw Milo Clay and his gang, who have stolen seventy Springfield rifles from Fort Jackson and are attempting to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico to supply the Apache chief Angry Plume. The story escalates into a large-scale gunfight as multiple lawmen groups—including Dan Lawson's gunsels from the north and Clint Shelton's raiders from the west—converge on the town during an attempt to capture the outlaws. In "Tom Mix and The Underground Threat," Tom Mix is imprisoned at the Dobie Jailhouse, where fellow inmates reveal that a fiendish plan born from years of brooding behind bars targets Tom Mix's death; the story suggests this underground conspiracy poses an imminent danger to the famous straight shooter.