Plot and script: Gianluigi Bonelli
Artwork: Erio Nicolò/ Giovanni Ticci
Cover: Aurelio Galleppini
Consumed with hatred for Tex, who caused his brother’s death, Rocky Durbin (who today calls himself Burnett) sends his hired ruffians to help Kit Willer escape from the Nogales jail where he ended up after a fight. Piccolo Falco, delivered to Cuchillo Negro’s ferocious Apaches, becomes human bait! Only Tex’s intervention avoids the worst and settles the account with Durbin. Months later, while Tex and Nuvola Rossa dream sinister omens of death, a group of scalp hunters, under the orders of the alcalde of Santa Rita del Cobre, meditates a massacre at the expense of Juan Josè’s peaceful Apaches.
In this issue: the preceding adventure extends from page 5 to page 98 (artwork by Nicolò); from page 99 to page 114, “Fiesta di morte” (artwork by Ticci).