REX VANE WAS THE GOOD GUY He was a hero n the great American tradition. He was the idol of millions...the handsome, clean-cut straight-shooter devoted to justice. When he decided to become President of the U.S.A. nothing could stop him. THE GOO...
The Indians called it Kan-Ta-Ke ("Beautiful Meadow") but to the pioneers who made their way to Kentucky over the Wilderness Road in the 1770's it was "The Dark and Bloody Ground" where American patriots still fought for their lives against redcoats a...
This was no ordinary hot car. The Berkeley no-nuke radicals who ripped off the nuclear plant thought they were being so smart when they stashed the cobalt-60 in the radiator of their white Lancia Scorpion. First Edition Avon Paperback 78949...
Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens just lost his first election in seventeen years. Maybe folks in the Arizona Territory were ready for a change, and then again, maybe Stringer ought to go have a look-see. The trouble is that Perry has vanished and everyo...
Stringer was just doing his job when he went to hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at a railway stop in Granger, Wyoming. But Stringer’s job is to write about the speech -- not get shot at. So suddenly a certain reporter has a powerful curiosity about who ...
Cheyenne, Wyoming, is a town that’s leaping into the twentieth century spurs first. Pretty soon Cheyenne will be just as newfangled fancy as any Eastern city. But the folks there still know how to have fun. First the rodeo -- and then the hanging. ...
Everyone knows that Salton’s Sink is the driest patch of greasewood in the whole damned Colorado Desert. So when a slick land syndicate promises cheap water to a pack of greenhorn settlers, Stringer is more than a mite suspicious. One booze-thirsty...
Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday’s news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems ...
Only Pancho Villa, king of bandits, is gutsy enough to make war on Terrazas the Tyrant. And only Villa would sell tickets to one of his massacres. A curious mob settles along the Rio Grande, waiting for a bloodbath. They don’t know that they’ve w...
Dead men don’t tell tales. Neither do dead women or children. And when their corpses have been dryin’ out in the desert sun for fifty years, there’s nary a whisper left of what happened. So when the six Mojave mummies are found near Esperanza, ...
Gil Martin enjoys a respectful and helpful relationship with members of a Cheyenne tribe, a situation that may get him in hot water following Custer's defeat and the subsequent white backlash against all Native Americans...
Even a newspaperman with Stringer MacKail’s brand of courage knows you can’t cover a stalemated miners’ strike without getting on somebody’s fightin’ side. But that won’t stop Stringer from trying to get some ink on the gold miners’ sit...
When freight trains conquered the West, the big, dusty drives of beef on the hoof became just a colorful piece of cowboy nostalgia. So when a cattle baron called C. J. Tarington aims to punch a thousand-plus head through the unforgiving heat and sage...
When a legendary old gunslinger finally meets his Maker in some godforsaken West Texas town, Stringer heads to the scene for what he thinks is a routine story. But when he gets to Comanche Woe, it turns out he’s landed in the middle of a dust storm...
Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens just lost his first election in seventeen years. Maybe folks in the Arizona Territory were ready for a change, and then again, maybe Stringer ought to go have a look-see. The trouble is that Perry has vanished and eve...
The way Stringer sees it, some cuss hard up for a laugh planted that news tip about Tombstone being flooded because that dusty town is about as dry as they come. But Stringer sure as hell ain’t laughing when his newspaper boss sends him to Arizona ...
They say Judge Roy Bean's been up to some legal tomfoolery again. And it's MacKail's job to get the scoop on the infamous "hanging judge." But someone is out to stop Stringer…dead. Now it could be old Bean and some of his boys. Or maybe it's just a...
When miners dig up the Yana Indians' sacred burial ground, the tribe goes on the warpath. And after a couple of deputy sheriffs are found with so many arrows sticking out of them they look like porcupines, the miners grab their guns and axes. Even a ...
The train robbery was bad. It cost Stringer thirty dollars. But when the Wild Bunch gives MacKail a .45 caliber invite to hear their side of what a nice bunch of boys they really are, it's an offer he can't refuse. After all, they're all mothers' son...
They called him the Mormon Triggerite, and bestowed upon him the honored title of sheriff. He saw himself as a servant of the Lord, called to mete out justice to all those who opposed Him.He was Orrin Porter Rockwell and he committed a hundred murder...
The first time Ben Parker meets Johnny Angel, Ben is blowing bass with Daddy Halloway and the Hot Babies. Angel angles into the band by acing out the drummer. Parker’s got a bad feeling about Angel, but has to hire him anyway. Johnny Angel, raised ...
Lou Cameron was a groundbreaking art master in the 1950s Pre-Code comics era. With his innovative experimental layouts and frequent use of surrealism, his horror comics have been described as "Jim Steranko meets Graham Ingels."
Zombies, vampi...