Tomahawk #135

Tomahawk #135 (On Sale: May 6, 1971), has a nice cover by Joe Kubert.

We begin this issue with Hawk, Son of Tomahawk in "Death on Ghost Mountain" by Robert Kanigher and Frank Thorne. When Hawk stops two men from attacking a traveling salesman, the man gives Hawk one of his catalogs as a reward. Seeing all the things in the catalog that he could buy, if he only had some money, Hawk decides to leave the ranch and seek his fortune. He heads into town to tell his friend Jess that he is leaving only to find Jess is off to seek his fortune as well, to win the heart of Tina. Jess has a map left to him by a dying prospector that points to a secret gold mine.

Jess and Hawk decide to find the gold together and Hawk is a little worried when he sees the gold might be on Indian land. They find the supposed gold mine by passing through a waterfall and taking a tunnel to the mountain beyond. The mountain is an old Indian burial mound and after seven days of digging, they strike gold. A few days later an Indian burial party arrives and tells them to leave. Jess wants to fight the Indians, but Hawk and he get into it instead. When the mound collapses, Jess is killed by a buried spear. Hawk returned the gold to the ground and promises not to return.

This is followed by a two-page spread of The Wild Frontier "Thunder Across the Plains" by Sam Glanzman.

We end this issue with "Spoilers" by Jerry DeFuccio and John Severin. It is 1865 and the Civil War is over when Captain Stanard Kirby returns to the ruins of his ancestral home in Virginia. By 1873, Kirby has moved on to Kansas where he has become the leader of a gang of robbers and assassins known as Kirby's Raiders. After the heat from lawmen becomes too much, Kirby and the gang split up for a few months to let the heat die down and Kirby takes the majority of their money and rides off to Colorado where he finds a ranch to work. He hides the money in a tree for safekeeping. When a plague of locust arrives the rancher and his neighbors burn a line between the locusts and his ranch. In the end, the money is all destroyed and Kirby never returns to his gang, only to be caught years later.

Edited by Joe Kubert.