Dates
- Cover date
- May 1948
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Badland Bullets · 24 pages
In the badlands Slick shoots Nella's horse. Nella takes Roy for Slick. He wins her trust. Using the riddle on a deerskin poke Nella seeks Grandpa's gold cache to pay the mortgage. Roy finds her a horse with saddle. They find three robbers' graves and a note, then Pete who dispatched them, digging relics right where the gold is cached. The deputy and posse fire on Roy and company thinking they are the four bank-robbers. Nella wins their trust. Pete is revealed young; gives Nella the gold. Slick is caught red-handed with rustled cattle and the bank swag. Pete and Nella romance. Roy departs.
- Bat Masterson · Great Lawmen of the Old West · 2 pages
Highlights of the colorful westerner's life. As a teen, Bat took part in the Battle of Adobe Walls in Texas, and killed Comanche Indians, Kiowa and Comanche Indians. He arrested Dave Rudabaugh and his gang. He avenged his brother, shooting the killers Wagner and Walker. He rescued Billy Thompson from lynching. He intervened in a feud between his friends Luke Short and Charlie Storms, at personal risk trying to be a peacemaker (but failed). He retired his guns while in his twenties and became a popular sports writer.
- Brownie the Bear, Episode 3 · 6 pages
Charley tells Pat and Pete how Lige brought Brownie in the house on a chain Christmas morning. Baby June rides off with Brownie. The family borrow hounds to search. Meanwhile, Brownie saves Baby June from two big Canada Lynxes, then lumbers off as the search party arrives.