Il supplizio

Plot and script: Claudio Nizzi
Artwork: Giovanni Ticci
Cover: Aurelio Galleppini

Tex’s story continues. The comanchero, Cardenas, and Ernie Benson, owner of a distillery that is burned down by Willer, are pawns of a band of arms and whiskey traffickers who answer to Don Liborio Torres, ex governor of New Mexico before the territory passed over to the United States. Tiger Jack, searching for the woman that he loves, works Cardenas over with a knife and, before killing him, finds out that Taniah and Mi-Ni-Teh are segregated in the gang leader’s den, on the Sacramento Mountains. Having overcome various sentinel defenses, Tex and the Navajo warrior steal into Torres’ villa…