Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine #11

Billy the Kid rides into Lardo and discovers a celebration surrounding a stagecoach run, learning that a outlaw named Slade has been terrorizing the Overland Express Company through theft and violence. The story chronicles Slade's brutal history as a drunk and murderous bandit who eventually reforms after being shot down and adopting the slain man's son, only to be discharged from his position when vigilante justice demands his removal. When Billy encounters the reformed Slade on the road, a confrontation ensues with a sheriff who has obtained evidence of Slade's old crimes; Billy witnesses the sheriff's sixgun justice and the revelation that even redemption cannot escape the past in the Old West.