La valle del morto

Tex is sent by the Rangers Command to Cedar Mines , a small mining village in the hands of ruthless bandits, to bring aid to a ranger who no longer gives any news of himself. Even if he acts alone, Tex will manage, in a very close confrontation, to get the better of the bandits and avenge the killed ranger.

This story was created by reassembling the strips of previous stories (to be precise, a good portion of the adventure "Missione a Devil’s Hole") with new dialogues. The reason is to be found in the need to give Galep some rest from the exhausting rhythms imposed by the production of the weekly strip issue (almost 11 tables per week created alone or with a few helpers) and allow him to calmly complete subsequent stories.

In the drawings of this story it is possible to notice the intervention of another hand. This is certainly Mario Uggeri , who, at the time of the release of the adventures from which the strips of this story were taken, was Galep's trusted inker as well as the creator of two complete Tex adventures, one of which is the one following this one.