Rustlers have drawn a white line around town and will kill the next man to cross it. Walt is determined to go as sheriff (even if he is a sham), but Wayne socks him and goes as sheriff. He's ambushed in a canyon holding the stolen cattle. Then Walt comes thundering in, both jump on the same horse, and they clean up the bandits. As for Wayne's "impersonation", Walt warns, "Don't ever try a fool stunt like again!"
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Strong Bow finds a valley where a chief and his bullies exact tribute to "make the sun rise every morning". Strong Bow finds they shoot flaming arrows as a "sun", which he downs with his own arrows. With the people's suspicious aroused, Strong Bow goes one better and shoots a giant flaming tree-arrow. Strong Bow bests the chief in a knife fight, and the bullies are banished.
Sioux warriors are raiding towns and stealing horses, then "vanishing" in the hills. The cavalry needs fresh horses, so Dan investigates. He catches the Sioux stealing furs - Why when they can trap their own? - but he's knocked cold. A Sioux boy named Little Tracker is out to clear his people's name. Together they learn the "Sioux" are white men in disguise ducking into honeycombed caves. Dan and Little Tracker divert a stream and flood out the villains!
Johnny Thunder tracks and captures three thugs in the hills. A young Cheyenne boy, Swift Deer, watches and decides to emulate his hero. He dresses in his father's shirt and war bonnet, but it keeps falling over his eyes. Johnny must rescue the boy from a buffalo stampede, but he in turn chases off thugs with swift arrows. Johnny tells the boy, "A warrior's clothes do not make a brave," but reflects he's a schoolteacher who dresses as Johnny Thunder!