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Nao posso... Fiz um juramento de salvar vidas e nunca roubá-las! Gostaria de defender este garoto... mas nao posso... (I can't... I swore an oath to save lives and never steal them! I'd like to defend this boy... but I can't...)

Black Rider (Heron Robledo)

Appearing in "Você é um covarde"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
The Kid From Dodge City #1
(originally printed as You're Yella, Lawman!)

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Synopsis for "Você é um covarde"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
The Kid From Dodge City #1
(originally printed as You're Yella, Lawman!)
Since becoming the sheriff of Dodge City, Jess Wayne has been besieged with gunslingers looking to earn a reputation by shooting it out with him. The most recent challenges Wayne, but he refuses to draw unless the gunman commits a crime. So the gunslinger tosses a barrel through a shop window to goad the sheriff. This proves to be the stranger's undoing as Jess is easily able to out draw him and shoot the guns out of his hands. Jess then tells the man to pay for the damages and get out of town and go back to wherever he came from. After this incident, Jess is ashamed of the position he is in despite the fact that his father is proud of him. Jess, feeling that his reputation as a fast draw will only bring outlaws coming to make a name for themselves will keep coming to town and endangering the lives of the local residents and so he turns over his badge and gun, deciding to leave Dodge City for somewhere quiet where nobody knows who he is.

Unable to talk his son out of leaving, Whiplash Wayne convinces Jess to at least take his guns with him so he is not unarmed out in the untamed west. While out riding on the range, the Kid from Dodge City comes to the rescue of some settlers in a covered wagon that are under attack by by renegade Native Americans. After saving them he is thanked and begins to think that his father was probably right about needing guns after all as they can do some good. Later on down the trail Jess comes upon some rustlers and is able to stop them as well. After declining to stay with the rancher he is more convinced that guns can be useful in the right hands.

That night he rides into a quiet town when suddenly he hears a gun shot. He is confronted by King Kane and his gang who tell him that they run the town and that he needs their permission to enter. Not standing down to King, the Kid outdraws him and sends him and his gang packing. The locals are thankful for Jess's help and ask him to stay on as sheriff, but he politely declines and rides off once again, this time wearing his father's guns instead of keeping them in his saddlebag.

Appearing in "A volta de Max Tim (Max Tim's return)"

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  • Max Tim's gang
    • Max Tim
    • Two henchmen
  • Black mountain lion

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Synopsis for "A volta de Max Tim (Max Tim's return)"

The Black Rider was looking for two bandits who robbed the bank of Kansas City, when he was attacked by a black mountain lion, and he shoot it when he had an opening. The sounds of the bullets warned Bob Lathrop, who arrived to the scene and congratualted him because of the attacks of the mountain lion to the Lathrop's livestock. He also invited him to his house. The Black Rider changed into Dr Masters and went with Bob thinking in the beautiful Marie Lathrop.

When they both arrived, Marie went to Dr. Masters, worried because his father, Jim, had been shooted by outlaws. Dr Masters went to treat Jim. Marie told Dr Masters, that as Bob went the quarry of the mountain lion, Jim became furious and went to get a rifle. But when he as leaving the house, unknown men came and shoot him. Masters pondered if the robbers where the same bandits that he was chasing before.

How Dr. Masters was preparing to go along with Marie to take his medicla suitacase from his horse, when someone began shooting to the windows. Dr Masters went to protest the action and meet three arrogant men. Masters told them that he was going to call the local sheriff and that thy should leave. The leader became angry and demanded that Doc Masters confronted him with guns. Marie protested that Masters didn't have a gun, but the leader throw a revolver to him. In this moment, Bob's pet dog attacked the outlaw, who proceed to shoot him. Bob shouted at him too, and he got in the way of the bullet shoot at his dog. Marie and Doc Masters became paralyzed by the event.

The bandit still wanted to confront Masters with guns, but he didnt't react and was waverign because of his path to never use violence. Finally he said that he had done a oath to save lives and not to take them. The outlaw amde fun of him and left. Marie and Doc Masters brought Bobby to the house, where the doctor discovered that the bullet only brushed his shoulder. Marie became very angry by the inaction of Dr. Masters and throw him out the house, thinking that if he wasn'a great doctor, he should never have entered her house.

Doc Masters recognized the bandit as Max Tim and his gang and prepared to take him down as the Black Rider. In the road he meet some settlers that had stopped their voyage. He went to investigate and saw the gang of Max Tim robbing the settlers. He arrived when they left, and the settlers recognized him, telling him that Max Tim and his gang had killed two of his men. The bandits had gone to an abandoned house in Passo's gorge (desfiladeiro do Passo). The BlacK RIder rode to this location, that he recognized as the one where the black mountain lion attacked him.

The Rider entered the house, catching the gang playing cards. Max Tim ordered his men to shoot the outsider, but the Black Rider was faster and finished the bandits with his accuracy. Max Tim fled the scene in horse and killed one man in his flight. Max prepared to fight the Rider face to face, but the later shoot at his hands. Max tried to draw his knife, but he fell into the nearby abyss. The Black Rider saw Max Tim felt in his own knife and his corpse ended next to the dead mountain lion.

Appearing in "O covarde"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Ringo Kid #21
(originally printed as The Coward!)

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Synopsis for "O covarde"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Ringo Kid #21
(originally printed as The Coward!)
Outside a casino in Longhorn the Ringo Kid watches as a man backs out of with guns blazing. The Kid recognizes him as Zack Bolt the fastest gun in the region and wonders why he has backed out of a fight. When Ringo asks him why he backed out of a fight, Zack tells the Kid that he refuses to use his guns ever again. When a man comes out of the casino to prove himself against Zack Bolt, Ringo steps in and blasts the guns out of his hands. But Bolt tells the Kid not to bother with him as his days are done for. The Kid decides to save Zack's reputation and goes into the casino to find that it is a young man that is the one who made Zack turned coward. The Ringo Kid tries to convince him that Zack is the greatest gun fighter there was. When the young man tries to prove he is the better by challenging the Ringo Kid to a draw. However before the young man can shoot, Zack blasts the gun out of his hand. Zack then reveals the reason why he could not draw on the boy was the fact that he is his own son he abandoned years ago to avoid him from being endangered by his rep. With father and son happily reunited, the Ringo Kid is happy to see that his friend has a new lease on life.

Appearing in "Eu matarei o xerife!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Wyatt Earp #15
(originally printed as I'll Git Ya, Marshal!)

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Synopsis for "Eu matarei o xerife!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Wyatt Earp #15
(originally printed as I'll Git Ya, Marshal!)
When Earp helps a peddler against a bullying gunman, the peddler later returns the favor by alerting the Marshal to a stagecoach robbery.

Appearing in "Paz e sossego"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Two-Gun Kid #22
(originally printed as Peace and Quiet)
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Synopsis for "Paz e sossego"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Two-Gun Kid #22
(originally printed as Peace and Quiet)
Western tale.

Notes

  • Cavaleiro Negro was a reprint title of the brasilian publisher RGE, who had the license to reprint Black Rider from Marvel.
  • In this brasilian version, Matthew Masters was renamed Heron Robledo. For a time (perhaps by influence of the brazilian own comics' code), Ichabod/Satan the Wonderhorse was renamed to Tufao(Typhon), when he was known before as "Sata"/Satan.Later stories retained the name "Sata" again
  • Watt Earp was translated as "Tom Earp" in his reprint story. RGE published by this name Marvel and Charlton stories of Wyatt Earp without difference. The Kid from Dodge City was renamed "Bob Allen", a name of a previous character of Quality
  • Only the stories featuring Marvel characters are listed in the database. This comic also reprinted western stories from other publishers like Charlton (Kid Montana).
  • The story "A volta de Max Tim" is very similar to the one in Wild Western Vol 1 35 named "The Killers!", with added details and plot, since the penciller Juarez Odilon took various elements of the previous story to create a new one.

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