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Appearing in "Black Rider"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Maria Juesto
  • Satan the Wonderhorse

Antagonists:

  • Manuel Tyrez's tyrant regime
    • Manuel Tyrez
    • Hivera (Dinero's prime minister)
    • Francisco Morales
    • Nita

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Locations:

  • Mexico
    • Dinero

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Synopsis for "Black Rider"

A beautiful mexican woman Maria Juesto, wrote a letter asking for the Black Rider’s help. Doctor Matthew Masters travels down to the town Dinero in Mexico where the locals are being terrorized by a tyrant named Manuel Tyrez, who is rigging the elections by brute force. When he arrives he hears shooting and is told by the locals that the town is holding an election and Tyrez has his men executing people that will vote against him.

He is soon directed to where he can find Maria Just. He finds her waiting tables at the saloon that is run by her father. There he finds a group of people who are talking about revolting against Manuel Tyrez but they are shot dead by Manuel’s loyal army. Having seen the tyranny first hand, Matthew Masters slips away so he can change into the Black Rider. He shots the guns out of the hands of the soldiers and oddly enough they decide to leave after a strange little man gives them a hand signal. Maria is happy that the Black Rider has come, but he tells them that he has not come to free her people, but to look for the silver that is reported to be buried under the city somewhere. He says this, knowing that the little man is listening. He then pretends to have denounced his mission and says he in reality is a hired gun for sale to the highest bidder. With this information, the spy (Francisco Morales, chief of the secret police) decides to report this back to his master.

Meanwhile, Manuel Tyrez is informed that he won the election and when he goes out to address his public he finds only three children and an old woman. When the children start hurling insults, Tyrez orders them all executed. As Francisco morales tells Manuel about how the Black Rider is in town and he is offering his service, they are briefly interrupted when a package containing a dress for Nita, Manuel’s wife. The packege explodes from a bomb hidden inside, killing a servant. The bomb convinces Manuel that they need to hire the Black Rider to top any revolution from overthrowing his rule. Manuel sends his Nina to find the Black Rider and bring him back to the palace.

She complies, but the duplicitous woman also tries to romance the Black Rider and tries to convince him to assassinate her husband, promising untold riches, the rule of Dinero and herself as wife if he does so. This leads to deception upon deception as members of Tyrez’s followers began to kill each another to try and seize control. In the end, Nina shoots Manuel, but when she offers the Black Rider control of the town he declines the offer. As he walks away, Manuel fatally shoots Nina before he dies. The Black Rider then takes out the army, ending their control of the town allowing the locals to take back their home. Later, the Black Rider tells Maria that he only pretended to be a gun for hire in order to infiltrate Manuel Tyrez’s inner circle and dismantle his tyrannical government from within.

Appearing in "Three-Cornered Feud"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Brick Edwards
  • Sheriff of Bull Gulch
  • Satan the Wonderhorse

Antagonists:

  • Lath Reesy's gang
    • Lath Reesy

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Locations:

  • Bull Gulch

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Synopsis for "Three-Cornered Feud"

Doc Masters arrives in the town of Bull Gulch despite the fact that Brick Edwards, the local deputy sheriff, warned him never to come back to town again. Here, he is confronted with Brick, who calls Masters a fraud, as he blames him for being unable to save his father with his surgery. When he tries to shoot Matthew, the local sheriff stops him from doing something but Brick warns Masters to watch his back. The doctor then performs surgery on a patient and after he is once again warned by the locals to watch out for Brick Edwards. Masters refuses to sneak out of town as it will affect his reputation so instead he changes into Black Rider so Brick can’t find his alter-ego and he can stay in town until the following day.

The Black Rider soon discovers Lath Reesy and his men, outlaws who the masked hero ran out of Abilene the month earlier. However, Lath boasts how the Black Rider can’t do anything as they have committed no crimes in Bull Gulch and plan on staying as long as they please. When the Rider crosses paths with Brick Edwards, who is still looking for Matthew Masters, he sends Brick to the south side of town on a false lead.

Later that evening, Brick Edwards is on patrol when he is shot by Lath Reesy and his gang. The Black Rider comes to his aid but in the ensuing battle is cactached from behind. Then the outlaws overpower him. Lath decides that the Rider deserved a more painful death and takes him to a rope bridge near Bull Gulch. They leave hanging in a ledge. His men then watch and wait for the hero to eventually lose his grip and fall int the abyss. However, Satan the Wonderhorse suddenly arrives, bringing the a rifle to the Black Rider. Quickly, he shoots the ropes of the suspension bridge sending Lath and his men falling to their deaths.

Rushing back to town, the Black Rider changes back to his civilian identity and performs a life-saving surgery, Brick Edwards. The next day, Brick is grateful that Masters saved his life and finally realizes that there was nothing the doctor could do to save his father.

Appearing in "Sharp Shooting Heritage"

Featured Characters:

  • Tony Royal

Synopsis for "Sharp Shooting Heritage"

  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "Draw Or Die!"

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  • Rawhide Reefer

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Synopsis for "Draw Or Die!"

Wyatt Earp goes to avenge his brother Virgil who was killed by the outlaw Rawhide Reefer.

Appearing in "Mass Murder In Montana"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Slabside sheriff's office
    • Deputy Jerry Morgan (death)
    • Deputy Luke Venly (death)
    • Deputy Chuck Greenbow (death)
    • Deputy Joe
    • Deputy Jed
  • Slabside Silver Mine Company
    • John Selvy(death)
    • Local bartender
    • Nelson Brown
  • Selvy's wife
  • Jim
  • Satan the Wonderhorse

Antagonists:

  • Sheriff Bolton (death)

Other Characters:

  • Old drunk

Locations:

  • Slabside, Montana

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Synopsis for "Mass Murder In Montana"

In the town of Slabside, Montana, the Wiggens Brothers were executed for their crimes by hanging. The town residents thought this act will send a strong message to outlaws to stay out of their town, but they quickly discovered that one of the sheriff’s deputies, Jerry, had been killed in the sheriff’s office with a note pinned on his shirt. Soon, Doctor Matthew Masters arrived in town and, after hearing about the murder, went to talk to Sheriff Bolton to see if there’s anything he can do to help. The sheriff Bolton shows him the note left by the killer claiming to be Jin Joe Wiggens, father of the Wiggens brothers,who vowed to avenge the deaths of his children by killing every man, woman and children in town.

The town became paranoid, as bullets fly and many people are murdered. A mob soon forms and they try to lynch the father of the Wiggens brothers, thinking he is responsible. By this point, Masters has decided to do something and changes into the Black Rider. After saving the life an old drunk, mistaken by the Wiggens father, the Rider told the locals that mob rule will not help catch the real killer. The Rider proposes to guard all the man above 40 until more information is discovered. As the Black Rider continued investigating the murders, two more deputies are killed in the night. The only real clue is the fact that the killer has been using .45 caliber shells.

Deciding to look into the background of the Wiggens brothers, he sends a telegraph to government record keepers for more information on the family. He learns that the Wiggens brothers weren’t biological brothers but orphans who were adopted together. Eventually, the Black Rider deduces the only person who could have committed every murder was sheriff Bolton himself!

The Black Rider confronts him in the local saloon, but Bolton takes the bartender hostage. Still, the Black Rider dives into the saloon and manages to shoot the sheriff dead. In the aftermath of the battle, one of the locals finally makes a connection for the killings, as it turned out the sheriff and all of his victims all shareholders in the Slabside Silver Mine Company.

Notes

  • The last story "Mass Murder in Montana" implies that Doc Master had been before in Slabside city, when it was only a little stop in the Poney Express, continuing the trend in Bernstein's run to have a Black Rider with a more experienced past.
  • Also "Slabside, Montana" is said to have been a "Pony Express stop"; in fact, the route of the Pony Express came no closer to Montana than central Wyoming.(Note by Tom Lammers)
  • It is very probable that the Wyatt Earp story can't correspond to the Earth-616 version of Wyatt Earp (who appeared later), since that the story implis a significant divergence of actual history, with Virgil Earp, Wyatt's brother being killed and dead in a date different with reality.

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