BILLY STEELE: KID RANGER--THE DARK SKULL'S REVENGE

And future generations would someday look to the legend of Billy Steele’s rise, to find inspiration when an indescribable disaster strikes the American landscape and people.

On the day the infant Billy was found on the trail, there appeared to be some small clue that an abduction of another child took place. And in fact, the vicious Sidewinder was the three-year old infant captured by The Dark Skull after he killed the child’s parents and stole their magical relic, the black coin. The Sidewinder was Billy’s older brother, son of the Knox’s. But neither Billy nor The Sidewinder knew the other existed from that fateful day over a decade ago--until now. The Dark Skull had brainwashed his kidnapped son into believing he was the victim, the lone survivor after his entire family was wiped out, and that a higher power will guide him to victory over Billy Steele and the world. And while the infant Billy was hidden in the steel, strongbox, he was unable to witness his older brother’s abduction by The Dark Skull and The Trinity Of Terror. Furthermore, on the day of Billy’s rescue by Holt’s Rangers, the elite cavalry super troopers arrived after the kidnapping of Billy’s older brother. They knew nothing of the three-year old’s abduction. The two-year old Billy was the only member of the Knox family found alive, and he never knew of his older brother’s kidnapping and existence.

Soon, Billy and White Eagle reached Billy’s surprise destination-a great cave, hidden in the basin, in Skull Canyon, where legend has it a tribe of ghost Indians dwell. Here in this cave is where Billy would learn much more about the ways of the Native American gods from his sage and teacher White Eagle. This cave would be their place of a stone solitude, preserving the sacred magic and great bond between them. The cave was cathedral like; designed like the temple and chapel of The Ancient One, the elderly sage who gave the young White Eagle the black arrowhead’s power to become The Manitou many years ago. The cave’s walls were decorated with many fabulous symbols of White Eagle’s 10,000-year old Indian myth, magic, legend and lore. Magnificent wooden carvings, great totem poles, cave-paintings-all of which immortalized the mythology of the Native American’s culture’s marriage to the forces of Nature and the land. All of the powers of the Indian culture, from the might of the bear, hawk and mountain lion to the fury of Nature’s storms and the enormity of the universe are celebrated in the cave’s art and in the worship and power of The Lightning Warrior, Billy’s alter ego.

But the cave was not Billy’s only surprise. As a reward for his courage, White Eagle gave Billy more magical gifts. The gray-haired, wrinkle-skinned White Eagle was once The Manitou many years ago, a Native American super god who saved his tribe from the ravages of those bent on destroying his people. White Eagle had chosen Billy as his successor by giving Billy the magical black arrowhead that transformed him into The Lightning Warrior. Billy had since proven himself to be a worthy warrior and the Indian wizard imparted more powerful presents onto his young student, weapons the Manitou used to combat evil.

The first of The Manitou’s gifts Billy was presented with was The Thunderhawk, it looked like the tomahawk Billy wielded when he was his Lightning Warrior self, but the Thunderhawk radiated a great glow, and was capable of tremendous force not dissimilar to the Norse God Thor’s mighty hammer.

Next Billy received from White Eagle a cloak made from the skin of the legendary great, white buffalo.