Tex Tre Stelle N. 405

Il messaggio cifrato

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Cover Author
Claudio Villa
Language
Italian
112 pages - b/w - Bonelli format (16 x 21cm)

Once the Chases have been defeated, Herbert Addison embraces his father again. Some time later, the pards save a child from the murderers of the elderly acrobat who had adopted him. Brought to Las Cruces, little Felipe Elgin gives the new marshall Susan McIntire an enigmatic message written before his death by his grandfather, the burglar John "Santa Klaus", and addressed to his confidant and friend marshall Ted, Susan's husband, killed by the robbers of a mail carriage. And now those same scoundrels kidnap Felipe, convinced that he knows where the loot is that his grandfather stole from the gang!

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Type
reprint
Status
3rd part
The story ends on page 28 (24 pages).
Story kind
Comic Book
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Agent O'Bannon loves hasty methods: to find out where young Addison is, he hangs Blackie Logan, one of the kidnappers, from a tree and beats him to death in vain! The powerful senator Stanley, who must do a favor for certain Pinkerton agents, convinces his friend Addison senior to trust O'Bannon again. The plan is to pay the ransom and trap the kidnappers, but the bandits prank O'Bannon's men by blowing them up on a railway bridge!

Il messaggio cifrato

Type
reprint
Status
1st part
In this issue story begins on page 29 to 114 (86 pages) and continues in the following issue.
Story kind
Comic Book

The pards hunt down the kidnappers of little Felipe Elgin and catch one of them, making him sing: the burglar Santa Klaus had participated in the robbery of the postal carriage to pay for his nephew Elgin's schooling and then, mortally wounded, had hidden the loot. Once Felipe has been freed at the old mission in San Antonio, the mysterious message, originally intended for Ted McIntire (the Las Cruces marshall killed by bandits), is finally deciphered: a verse from the Bible leads to the hiding place of the loot, and the reward for its recovery, as his grandfather had requested, goes to Felipe!

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