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

Tired and thirsty, his legs throbbing from being a fugitive on foot, The Sidewinder decided to stop in for a quick shot of red eye before making a new plan for revenge. He knew he should be escaping from the warrior’s wrath, but he suddenly became seduced by some unknown force. He was tempted to push the saloon’s swinging doors open. He became amazed at what he saw inside.

The Sidewinder was mesmerized by what he was witnessing in this derelict saloon. At first glance, it seemed like other houses of ill repute he frequented before: cowboys playing poker, other cowpokes staggering drunk at the bar, the piano player tickling the ivories, but they were like nothing he had ever seen in his life. These grotesque denizens, although dressed in ten-gallon hats, chaps, jeans and leather vests, were demonic creatures.

Horrific, scaly monsters, with protracted fangs and claws protruding from their fingers and mouths, these hideous trail bums evil eyed the young intruder. As these demonic outlaws advanced on The Sidewinder, with a hungry look in their bloody eyes, the rage prone youth suddenly backed up in fear. For this saloon was the entrance to a portal to the fiery underground, the infernal abyss, where all condemned souls are tortured for an eternity. Step through the saloon’s degenerative façade, and one can find one self, falling into the crushing grasp of Hades.

As the demonic cowboys grabbed The Sidewinder, in preparation to devour their new prey, a statuesque, seductively beautiful saloon girl came to his rescue. Inside his soul, the adolescent breathed a sigh of relief, but he still grinned viciously to his cretin captors, for if he was to die, he would go down fighting. The raven-haired, revealingly dressed saloon girl ordered the cowboy monsters to let her "guest" go, and then escorted The Sidewinder to her private room.

Her name was Miss Lucy Fur, and she was the owner of this saloon for condemned souls. Her dark eyes and creamy white skin erected a suppressed yearning in The Sidewinder, as he could not believe such a dazzling beauty could command such a grisly kingdom. She lightly caressed the adolescent’s hand as she poured him a drink while The Sidewinder reclined on her soft, plushy bed. She had a bargain to offer him--a deal he could not refuse.

She cradled The Sidewinder’s head close to her voluptuous bosoms. And through the night, this mistress of hell made heavenly love to her new follower. At the witching hour, she struck a bargain with her new lover. Before The Sidewinder and Lucy Fur would consummate their marriage, their devilish union, they would make a pact, a deal that would conclude with Billy Steele’s wild West home being devoured by demonic forces too horrible to describe.

Miss Lucy Fur wanted the ultimate power source buried in the Knox’s lost mine, the legacy belonging to Billy Steele, and she would do anything to possess it. But it appeared to be protected by an unimaginable, miraculous force, impervious to her evil. Only a Knox family member could extract this fantastic power. The Sidewinder, still unaware of his true birth heritage as Billy’s older brother, was a perfect pawn for Lucy Fur’s plan.

She would give The Sidewinder what he wanted, an evil, unstoppable power, which could not be defeated by Billy’s Lightning Warrior alter ego. And once invincible to the forces of good, The Sidewinder could destroy Billy Steele and deliver the mine’s amazing contents to Lucy Fur’s feet, giving her an evil reign over heaven, hell and Earth.