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Appearing in "Black Rider"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Black Rider #19

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  • Chuck Norman (Death)
  • Molly Norman
  • Satan (Ichabod)
  • Ab Cahill
  • Chalmers (Mentioned)
  • Bates (Mentioned)
  • Gordon (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "Black Rider"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Black Rider #19

Outlaw Hatchet Haines has hatched up a scheme to dress as the Black Rider to frame the hero while committing robberies, forcing a local tailor named Chuck Norman into making him a Black Rider costume. When Chuck refuses to go along with the plan, Haines and his men decide to deal with him and take him away. They leave a note for Chuck's wife telling her that he has left to do a favor for the Black Rider. Finding this suspicious, Chuck's wife calls for local doctor Matthew Masters and confides that she finds it suspicious. Masters decides to look into it and rides away. Finding cover, Masters changes into the Black Rider and goes off to search for Chuck. As he rides he is spotted by Marie Lathrop who wonders what danger her love will face.

The Black Rider finds Chuck Norman in the desert, dying of dehydration. Despite his best efforts, the Black Rider cannot save his life, but Chuck tells the Rider about Hatchet's plot before he dies. As the Black Rider races back to town, his impostor has begun attacking local ranches. When he demands that Jim Lathrop and orders him to sell his ranch for cheap, Jim and Bobby are convinced that the Black Rider has gone bad and refuse. Marie however, notices how the Black Rider has not recognized any of them and concludes that it must be an impostor. When Jim refuses to sell the ranch, the faux Black Rider shoots Jim in the chest and then takes Marie prisoner and rides off, leaving Bobby to care for his father.

Later, the real Black Rider has returned home and changed back into Matthew Masters. He is shocked when Bobby suddenly bursts into his doctors off with a gun, seeking to avenge his father. However, Masters convinces Bobby that the real shooter was an impostor and changes back into the Black Rider and seeks out to find Hatchet Haines. The Black Rider finds Haines' secret hideout and guns down his men. Hatchet leaves his guard of Marie to find out what the noises outside are. The Black Rider attacks Haines, and easily disarms him of his guns. Fighting hand-to-hand, the Black Rider easily overpowers Haines and throws him off a cliff to his death. He then frees Marie.

Appearing in "Revenge of the Redmen!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Outlaw Kid #19

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  • Darro
  • Darro's Men
    • Charlie

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  • Chief Powhotti

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Synopsis for "Revenge of the Redmen!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Outlaw Kid #19

There is a great deal of unrest over the Native Americans attacking burning their crops and homes. Leading this pack is a local named Darrow who suggests they take up arms against the Natives. Listening to this is the Outlaw Kid suggests that cooler heads prevail and that they need to check out all the facts before acting rashly. The Kid volunteers to go and meet with the chief of the tribe and see what is going on.

Riding to the Native camp, the Kid is called into the village by smoke signal. He meets with chief Powhotti who tells him that those who have been burning the crops in Caliber City were not his people. The Kid believes him and asks Powhotti if he can help if he needs it. The Kid then returns home and changes back into his alter ego of Lance Temple. There he expresses his suspicions that Darrow is responsible for the unrest, but his father Zane reminds him of the vow to not get involved in violence. At that very moment, Darrow and his men -- who have been causing the troubles while disguised as Native Americans -- are plotting to attack a wagon party in his plot to cause a war so they can profit from selling weapons and ammo to the Native Americans.

The following morning, the Outlaw Kid witnesses as Darrow leads a wagon train out of town and suspects something suspicious going on without him. When Darrow signals his men to attack the wagon, he is shocked when the real Natives come rushing at him chasing him away from the wagon. When he tries to shoot at the Natives, the Outlaw Kid jumps at him and beast a confession out of Darrow, clearing the Natives of any wrong doing.

Appearing in "Spurs West!"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Two Gun Western #13

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  • Caguyas
    • Broken Spear (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "Spurs West!"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Two Gun Western #13

A group of Caguya Native Americans attack a caravan of wagons. The attack is interrupted by the arriving Apache Kid who tells them to hold off their attack or disrupt the peace treaty they recently signed with the white men in the area. When the Caguyas refuse to stand down, the Apache Kid aids the wagon train, but soon all the men are killed and the Caguyas converge on the Apache Kid, forcing him to flee. The leader of the war party tells his men that the Apache Kid needs to be slain for their leader, the so-called White Chief.

The Apache Kid rides into Timber Valley, leaving the Caguya's to believe they can catch up and capture him. However, as the Apache Kid slips out of sight he changes into his alter-ego Aloysius Kare. Kare's appearance throws off the Caguya's and they believe him when he tells them that the White Chief sent him to get them. When they return to report back to their leader, Kare is surprised to find that the Caguya are being led by a white man in cheiftan garb. However, Kare's trick is exposed when the White Chief questions his presence in their camp.

Kare tries to escape, but Nightwind is wounded by a bullet forcing Kare to jump off his steed. Aloysius jumps into a canoe and pilots it away. While he is hidden behind some rocks he changes back into the Apache Kid. When he comes out from under cover, the White Chief is there ready to fire an arrow at him. Shocked to see the Apache Kid in the place of Aloysius Kare, he is shocked enough to allow the Apache Kid to knock him out with his canoe.

Later, the Apache Kid and his father Red Hawk deliver the unmasked White Chief to Bill Gregory who recognizes him as a man named Collins a soldier from Fort Madison who deserted his post. Being turned over the army, Collins admits that he developed the identity of the White Chief to stir up a war between the Caguya's and white men so he could sell both sides guns.

Appearing in "The Fangs of the Mad Wolf!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Black Rider #19

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  • Mad Wolf

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Synopsis for "The Fangs of the Mad Wolf!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Black Rider #19

The Black Rider is in a cave facing off with a wolf infected with rabies. As the maddened beast lunges at him, the masked hero recalls back to how he got into this situation in the first place...

A day earlier a Comanche brave and has come to town with his son, who is in a coma. He tells the people of Leadville that his son was bitten by a mad wolf and he is taken right to the local doctor Matthew Masters. Masters takes in the boy and examines him and tells the brave that his son can be cured with a rabies vaccine. Masters only has one vial of the vaccine left, but before he can treat the boy he fumbles the vial and it smashes on the ground. The only hope for the boy now is to catch and kill the infected wolf and make more antidote. Acting as though nothing happened, Masters pretends to treat the boy and tells his father that he needs a few days rest and sends him away. Changing into the Black Rider, Masters rides out and tracks the wolf down to the cave it dens in....

...The Black Rider kills the beast and rushes it back to his office. There as Matthew Masters, the Black Rider makes the much needed vaccine and cures the boy and reunites him with his father.

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