La mano del destino

Subject and Script-writer: Gianluigi Bonelli
Artwork: Giovanni Ticci/ Ferdinando Fusco
Cover Design: Aurelio Galleppini

While the infernal abysses open up to engulf Paco Cardenas, his brother José, trampled to death by a herd of demented cattle, begs forgiveness, as he breathes his last, from Padre Matías, the priest the pair of them had beaten the brains out of when trying to steal the treasure of mission Santa Cruz. Some time later, near Nogales, the former scalp hunter Paul Balder – known as El Carnicero – enlarges his ranch by getting a band of hooded figures to chase away the honest cattle ranchers whose lands bordered onto his own. Tex and Carson pass themselves off as the new owners of one of the farms “liberated” by Balder’s thugs.

In this issue: the previous adventure extends from page 5 to page 45 (artwork by Ticci); from page 46 to page 114, “Gli Incappucciati” (artwork by Fusco).