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A sneak peek at Issue No. 2. Click to enlarge.
The adventure continues in issue #2
The story begins with Tonto finding a lone survivor among the massacred
Texas Rangers. The badly wounded John Reid pulls his gun on the Indian, but is
out of bullets. He passes out and the darkness gives way to another scene. This
time it's Collins, who led the Rangers into the ambush, seeking Parsons. Only
instead of Parsons, he finds Julius Bartholomew, aka Black Bart. Parsons' hide
hangs as drapes in his office. Black Bart pulls his gun on Collins and gets him to
confess to his role in the Rangers' deaths and then kills him.
We then jump back to the canyon. Reid awakens from a nightmare to find that
Tonto has patched him up. Tonto also tosses him a rope made of the scalps of the
men who ambushed the Rangers. The next scene is in Utah. A man named
Winthorp stops outside a door and reports of the Rangers' demise to an unseen
man. The next page has Black Bart tire of waiting for his men to return and decides
to go after them.
The next day Reid awakens, his fever broken. He asks Tonto to show him the
graves. Tonto says he will when Reid is ready. Reid says he is ready. Breaking
down in tears at the graves of his father, brother and friends, Reid admits he
wasn't ready. Tonto agrees. "You were able. There is a difference," he says. He
asks the Indian to dig one more grave. He then plots to go after Collins, whom he
believes to be the last of the men responsible for the ambush.
In the meantime, Black Bart spies the rotting corpses of his men and the graves
of the Rangers. He rides into town to get a shovel and a newspaper.
The issue ends with Tonto offering to help Reid track down and kill Collins. He
hands Reid a bundle of items salvaged from the rest of the Rangers.