Troubled Town

Troubled Town

Jess is back on the hunt for the next killer on his list, Dave Nutter. His search takes him to the town of Dryden. When he gets there, he discovers that Nutter has murdered yet another innocent man.

Nutter proves to be an elusive prey, and the hunt takes him to the town of Frankfurt. He misses Nutter again but soon discovers that the community is besieged by a bunch of outlaws and thieves led by a man named Eddie Pickett.

Pickett and his men are holed up in a box canyon just outside of town. They’ve been stealing supplies meant for the town. When they come into town, they cause nothing but trouble. All the businesses are suffering because no one wants to travel through or visit, for fear of all the outlaws coming in and out.

Jess suspends his hunt for Nutter and promises the townsfolk that he’ll rid the town of the outlaws. He sends a message asking for John Bodine to join him.

When Bodine arrives in Frankfurt, he and Jess work to systematically eradicate the town of troublemakers and get everything back to normal.

When that job is finished, Jess picks up his hunt for Nutter.

Deadly Mistake

Deadly Mistake

Jess heads to Columbia, Texas, in search of Martin Willoughby, the next man on his hunt list. Willoughby is gone, but not until after he murders a prostitute. While in Columbia, Jess meets a pretty woman by the name of Samantha, who happens to be the murdered prostitute’s niece.

Jess and Samantha quickly take a liking to each other, but when she asks to come along on the hunt, he refuses, promising her that he’ll catch the man who murdered her aunt.

He leaves Columbia in search of Willoughby again, but while he’s gone, two outlaws viciously attack Samantha. He finally catches up with Willoughby and takes his body to the town marshal in Pennington, where he meets the professional gunslinger and gambler, Jack Barnaby.

While in Pennington, he discovers that Samantha has been attacked. Barnaby talks Jess into letting him go along on the hunt for the two men responsible. They return to Columbia to make sure that Samantha is going to be okay.

From there, the hunt for the two men begins. It’s bad enough that they hurt an innocent woman, but they had no idea that the woman had become a close friend of Jess’s.

The two outlaws have no idea of the hell coming their way.

Benson’s Blunder

BENSON'S BLUNDER

Jess leaves Townsend, Texas, and heads to Sycamore in search of the next man on his hunt list, a killer by the name of Dan Fletcher, but Fletcher isn’t there. While in Sycamore, he runs into two troublemakers who’ve wreaked havoc on the town. They end up challenging Jess and he kills them both.

He befriends a woman, Belinda, who owns and runs the hotel in Sycamore with the help of a young boy by the name of Jamie. He helps the two of them.

He finds out that the two troublemakers worked for a rich cattle rancher by the name of Claude Benson, a man with a bad attitude and enough money to always get his way. Benson comes into town and confronts Jess, but Jess has dealt with men like him before.

After finding Fletcher in the town of Hillsdale, he takes the body to the town of Holland to turn in for the bounty. He receives a message that Benson has caused more trouble because of what Jess had done.

He returns to Sycamore and confronts Benson, giving him a stern warning, but Benson is a man used to getting his way all the time. Benson hires men to kill Jess. The battle between Jess and Benson begins…and Jess is not a man who likes to lose.

Hell to Pay

Hell to Pay

Jess is back on the hunt, chasing down the worst of killers and putting them in the ground. The pursuit takes him to Ellington, Texas, in search of Robert Woodson. When he arrives, he discovers that Woodson has already been killed in a gunfight with another wanted man named Steven Rupert.

Jess, hauling the dead body of Woodson behind him, goes on the search for Rupert. When he finds him, he kills him and then proceeds to take both bodies to the marshal of Hayden, Texas, to turn in for the bounties on their heads.

He continues to hunt more wanted men, which eventually takes him to the town of Danford. Here, he accidentally runs into Daniel Brown, a young man with an urgent need. Daniel is trying to send a message to the Texas Rangers and U.S. Marshals, asking for help to save his town, which has been taken over by the ruthless Ruben Clover and his gang of killers.
Jess agrees to accompany Daniel back to Townsend, Texas, to help rid the town of the Clover gang.

When they arrive, Clover and his men are gone, but not for long. They find out that as Clover departed from Townsend, he’d warned the people he was going to get more of his men and return.

Jess helps to prepare the town to fight off the gang, but he quickly learns that the tiny town is populated by religious people who don’t believe in violence and won’t take up guns to protect themselves, leaving only Jess and Daniel to fight off the gang.

When the Clover gang returns, they quickly realize that Jess isn’t a man who likes to lose.

Badge Collector #148

Badge Collector

Jess is back on the hunt for more cold-blooded killers. He first heads to Halifax, Texas, in search of Milton Bashir. After he successfully catches and kills Bashir, he’s on to the next man on his hunt list, Leonard Gish.

Meanwhile, United States Marshal Frank Reedy begins to get messages about town marshals being murdered and their badges ripped off their shirts as some sort of message.

After catching Gish, Jess takes his body to the town of Monroe, to turn in to the law there. When he arrives, he quickly discovers that their town marshal has been murdered and his badge has been ripped from his shirt.

Reedy sends a message to Jess, assigning him the task as a U.S. Marshal of finding out who’s killing town marshals and taking their badges. He’s instructed to travel to the town of Arcadia, Texas, and speak with Marshal Jake Pennington there.

When Jess finds out who’s responsible for the murders and the reason why he’s doing it, he’s torn between what he feels is right, and what he must do under the law when he’s wearing the badge.