Tex Morgan #3
Smoke Shrouds a Killer's Colt!
Tex Morgan and Lobo are riding along the range when they come across a young woman on the side of the path crying. Tex approaches her and she recognizes him immediately and asks for his help. She introduces herself as Nancy Davis and explains that several years ago she lived in Carolina with her father and she had fallen in love with a young man named Allan Blake, and the two had planned to get married. However, another man, Colonel Daniel Prescott came to town and became instantly smitten by her. A professional duelist with a thirst for blood, he learned of Nancy's relationship with Allan. Allan became fed up of Prescott's meddling and despite Nancy's protests set up a duel with Prescott. Allan was no match and was shot dead.
Having to get away, Nancy and her father fled Carolina and headed west in hopes that Prescott would not follow them. In her new life, she met and fell in love with Ned Hanke who assured her that Daniel Prescott would not follow. However, Prescott soon found her and had recently arrived in town, more blood thirsty than ever. She has been reluctant to tell Ned, fearing that he would suffer the same fate as Allan before him. Tex decides to take up her cause and do something about Daniel Prescott once and for all.
However, when they arrive in town they learn that Prescott had killed a bunch of men he was gambling with and that Ned intends to duel with Prescott to try and eliminate him. Rushing to the local saloon, Tex and Lobo arrive just before Ned can formally challenge Prescott to a duel. Tex rushes between the two men pushing them aside to get to the bar. When Daniel slaps Tex, he easily beats him in a fist fight. When Prescott challenges him to a duel, Tex accepts and they both go outside to do it. They walk ten paces and turn to fire, with Prescott aiming high. Tex ducks while he draws, the bullet droning over his head while his own shot shoots Prescott dead. With Prescott no longer a threat, both Nancy and Ned thank Tex and Lobo for their help. The two heroes then ride out of town.
Recurring Characters
Tex Morgan
Lobo
Lightning
Cloud
Colt-Crazy Killers Ride Wild!
In the town of Red Creek Run, Frank Thomas and his gang rob the local saloon shooting down anyone who gets in their path and flee the scene. Their crime spree continues as they rob various coaches that pull into the area, leaving a pile of bodies in their wake.
When Tex Morgan and Lobo ride into town they are met by a man named Johnson who asks Tex to help them deal with their outlaw problem. When another local tells them that Frank Thomas has sat down for a meal at the Red Baron's Bar, Tex to help asking Johnson to gather every able fighting man that has a gun in the area. With a posse gathered, they stake out the local bank and wait for Frank Thomas and his gang to strike again. Thomas and his gang are ambushed but Thomas and his hombre Slim Olsen manage to escape the slaughter with Tex and Lobo following after them. However, they fail to lose the two heroes and they are quickly captured and turned over to the authorities.
Recurring Characters
Tex Morgan
Lobo
Lightning
Cloud
Love Thy Neighbor!
Arizona Annie is shocked when her arch-nemesis Grizzly Williams confronts her with professions of love. Shocked and disgusted, Annie shoots off Williams hat and tells him to go away. Slim Smith and his friends ask Grizzly why he thinks Annie loves him and he shows them a love letter that she supposedly written to him to tell that she secretly admires him. Slim and his pals tell Grizzly to not give up and continue pursuing her love. They ride off laughing, as they had written the love letters as a prank to play on Annie.
Grizzly once more approaches Annie and professes his love to her. When she continues to reciprocate he is even more determined noting that the love letters he received told him that she would resist his advances no matter how much she wanted him. Slim and his pal watch as Grizzle reads one of Annie's "letters" to her and she angrily sends him running off again. Spotting Slim and his pal laughing Annie realizes what's going on and chases them up onto the roof of a building, but forces them to climb down and help her clean up the situation they put her in.
She pays a visit to Grizzly William's shack where she finally "gives in" to his love and does chores around the house, purposely causing more of a mess than it was before. However, this only fortifies his love for her until she calls him an ugly walrus and sends him packing under a hail of bullets. She then turns her rage toward Slim and his pal, sending them fleeing for cover in the local pig pen, a fitting place for such as them.
Recurring Characters
Arizona Annie
Slim Smith
Death Drives the Thundering Herd!
Miles from Eagle Rock, buffalo herds are being wiped out by Red-Dog Jackson, who has been hired by a railroad company to hunt buffalo to feed the workers with. The supply of buffalo is getting low enough to that the local Native American tribe is faced with starvation if the herds continue to get culled. Chief Black Crow visits with the local sheriff of Eagle Rock asking him what he can do. The sheriff decides to call in his friend Tex Morgan and his pal Lobo to see what they can do to help the situation. The sheriff meets up with Tex and Lobo and explain the situation and they agree to help.
One of the men working for Red-Dog Jackson learns about Tex's involvement and informs Red-Dog. Red-Dog then sends one of his men to tell Tex and Lobo to stay out of their business. Tex easily beats the man senseless and sends him packing, unaware that Tex and Lobo are following to find out where Red-Dog and his men are camped out. They find a herd of grazing buffalo and send them on a rampage, pushing Red-Dog in his men through a thing mountain pass. However, Tex and Lobo are waiting on the opposite end and block it off, leaving Red-Dog and his men to be trampled to death by the charging buffalo.
Recurring Characters
Tex Morgan
Lobo
Lightning
Cloud
