Kid Colt Outlaw #85 — Nick Peron

Aug 17

Aug 17 Kid Colt Outlaw #85

Kid Colt Outlaw

Kid Colt is riding along the range and pauses when he happens upon a work crew setting up telegraph lines. He has to make a run for it when some of the work crew recognizes him. His escape is witnessed by the Waco Gang who believe that they can use Kid Colt’s presence in the area to their advantage. He points to the telegraph lines, saying that with those, the law can warn other towns when they commit robberies. He then says they are going to sabotage the lines and then pin the blame on Kid Colt.

Meanwhile, Kid Colt is dealing with a problem of his own, he needs to get out of the territory but can’t cross the desert without water. Unfortunately, the nearest watering hole is where the telegraph workers have set up camp. At that same moment, the leader of the Waco Gang disguises himself as Kid Colt and starts a fire at the camp, making sure the guard on duty sees him. While the men at the camp put out the fire and go out looking for the man responsible, the real Kid Colt discovers the trail of the men who started the fire. When he catches up with the Waco Gang they try to flee and run into the telegraph workers and they trick them into going after Kid Colt.

Kid Colt manages to give the telegraph workers the slip and finds the Waco Gang and stops them before they can blow up the telegraphers camp. He leaves them tied up and flees when the telegraphers come upon the scene of attempted sabotage.

Recurring Characters

Kid Colt, Steel

Siege at the Circle-X!

Kid Colt happens upon a ranch house and when he determines there’s no sign of life figures nobody will mind if he stops to get a drink of water from the well. However, his arrival is observed by a woman inside the home and she starts shooting at him. Running for cover behind the well, Kid Colt makes a run for the house and forces his way inside. He’s surprised to see that it’s only occupied by a woman and a bedridden old man. Surrendering, the woman tells Kid Colt that he can shoot her since her life is the only thing left she has for him to take. Kid Colt puts his guns away and says he hasn’t come to rob her and she realizes that this isn’t one of Porter’s men. The old man and his daughter explain that they have been terrorized by Hunk Porter and his brothers who have been trying to scare them off their land. They have a legal claim to the land, but Porter knows that if he can scare them off the property before a lawyer can arrive he can claim the property abandoned and take it for himself.

Kid Colt offers to help and when Hunk Porter and his brothers come to cause more trouble, he comes out and orders them off the property. When they open fire, Kid Colt easily disarms the three Porter brothers with relative ease. That’s when the lawyer arrives with the paperwork and when he warns them that Kid Colt has been sighted in the area, the Kid decides that it’s time for him to leave.

Recurring Characters

Kid Colt, Steel

The Deputy Says: Draw!

Walking into a saloon, Kid Colt is instantly recognized by the locals and give him wide berth. Taking a seat, the Kid wonders when he can stop running from the law. He watches with resigned dismay when one of the patrons runs to the sheriff’s office to get help. The sheriff soon enters the saloon with a deputy named Yates. Yates wants the sheriff to do something about the outlaw right away, however, the lawman always wants to make sure what a stranger’s intentions are before deciding if they are trouble or not, besides he point out that Kid Colt isn’t wanted in their state. Deputy Yates doesn’t care and draws his guns. When the sheriff tries to stop him, Yates shoves him aside, saying the old man needs to resign.

Yates then orders Kid Colt to draw, when he refuses Yates calls him a coward and slaps him across the face. Kid Colt gives Yates one more chance to back off but the deputy refuses. Kid Colt then draws his guns and shoots the revolved out of Yates’ grip and then beats him into submission. Defeated and humiliated, Yates orders the patrons to draw their guns and kill Kid Colt, but none of them want to break the law. With the situation under control, the sheriff tells Yates that he’s fire and to get out of town. He then thanks Kid Colt for being the better man, as he could have killed Yates without a second thought. He then tells Kid Colt that he’s welcome to stay in town for as long as he wants.