Thonga il tiranno

Plot and script: Claudio Nizzi
Artwork: Carlo Raffaele Marcello
Cover: Aurelio Galleppini

Carson is a prisoner of the tribe of blacks led by the dastardly Thonga, who has deposed the wise Omoko and conspires with the desperado Matìas to attack the gold diggers and caravans that pass through the area. Tex, meanwhile, is fished out of the stream he had fallen into, pierced through by an arrow, and treated by Kende, an old man loyal to the old deposed leader. Kende tells Willer the story of his people, descendents of the survivors of the shipwreck of a slave boat. Then, going along an underground tunnel, he leads the ranger to the secret valley.