Why should men have all the fun, robbin' and killin' and all that? Isn't it time for the distaff side to prove their worth?
Bella Trent and her husband Fred normally tread the boards as actors. but when roles are tight they perform a different act -- dressing up as two innocent sisters to rob trains. Using her feminine wiles, Bella would manage to get them into the baggage and mail car. There, Fred would knock out the conductor and the pair would help themselves to the loot. Before going back to the passenger car, they would shed their disguises and, unrecognizable, get away. But Bella got a little bit too greedy and on their next fob, she brought a gun. The robbery went as planned, except for the two dead bodies they had to throw off the train. When the train slowed down, they jumped off with the loot and made their way to the nearest town. They probably would have gotten away with it except that Fred did a poor job wiping rouge from his face...
Janet Storm and her father were passengers on a stagecoach when it was robbed and her father was killed. Janet was obsessed with vengeance and her mind became so twisted that she would shoot anyone who got in her way, whether they were the law of ordinary citizens. The bloody trail of the "Vengeful Vixen" stretched across the west.
The two-page text story in this issue was not a western, nor did it have any women outlaws. Jungle trader Jim Brennan is after the people who killed his partner, beheading him to make it look like the work of natives. When he does get to the guilty party he extracts a hideous revenge.
In the final story, Anna Marker became "The Killer from Katyville, "who never once in her brief but meteoric career of robbery, pillage, and murder showed even the slightest inkling of sympathy or compassion for those in her power!" First she shoots down two men who tried to rob her Faro game. She is jailed but manages to kill the sheriff as she escapes. Then she kills the owner of the gambling house where she worked and burned the pace down. Burying her loot at the local Boot Hill, she blazes her way through anyone who tried to stop her. In the end, she just became killing-mad.
Needless to say, the nifty cover on this issue had absolutely nothing to do with any of the stories therein.
Rest easy as you enjoy this issue, knowing that women can be as violent and dangerous as men.
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