Historical background of the forming of vigilante groups in boom towns and mining camps of the Old West.
Credits
Letters: typeset
Content
Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations (One complete panel and one cropped figure from the stories) and typeset text.
Comic Story
West of the Law (18 pages)
Synopsis
Dart Maddon organizes an army of paid killers to rule the town of Conestoga in the High Sierras in 1859. Brace Wade comes to town and helps Parson Jeb Wright organize an vigilante group to take control from Maddon.
Content
Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Brace Wade; Parson Jeb Wright
Notes
Introduction to series. Pencils and inks credits from Steven Rowe (via e-mail December 19, 2008).
Comic Story
The Gold Grabbers (13.67 pages)
Synopsis
Gold is discovered at Yellow Creek. The Golden Glow Mining Company is storing its gold in its mine tunnels for later shipment. A gang plans to rob the mine and tricks the vigilantes of Conestoga into riding into a trap, where they are put to work digging a tunnel to the stored gold. The Parson and Brace, who had been out of town when the other men left, later come to Yellow Creek and find that their men had never arrived. With help from the mining company men, the Parson and Wade rescue the Conestoga men and capture the gang.
Content
Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Brace Wade; Parson Jeb Wright
Notes
Pencils and inks credits from Steven Rowe (via e-mail December 19, 2008).
Publisher advertisement
The Nature of Things
Credits
Letters: typeset
Notes
Promo for "The Nature of Things" Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #842. No cover reproduction.
Comic Story
Boom Town Law (1 page)
Synopsis
Vigilantes in Alder Gulch, Montana, capture an gang of outlaws led by Henry Plummer.
Credits
Letters: typeset
Content
Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Henry Plummer
Notes
Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Comic Story
Wanted...Justice! (1 page)
Synopsis
History of the vigilante organization in San Francisco in the 1850s-1860s.
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