Phil Wire by Morris
In the town of Bottleneck Gulch, a saloon owner hires the cold hired gun Phil Defer to wipe out his rival, and Lucky Luke steps in to stop the killing.
Lucky Luke is the Western comic series created by the Belgian artist Morris in 1946. It follows a lone cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, his clever horse Jolly Jumper, and the witless prison dog Rantanplan. From 1955 the French writer René Goscinny scripted the series and turned it into a sharp and funny parody of the American West, with recurring foes such as the four Dalton brothers. After Goscinny died in 1977 and Morris in 2001, later writers and the artist Achdé carried the series on, and it now runs to more than eighty albums.
In the town of Bottleneck Gulch, a saloon owner hires the cold hired gun Phil Defer to wipe out his rival, and Lucky Luke steps in to stop the killing.
Lucky Luke takes a job as travelling assistant to Doc Doxey, a smooth-talking quack who peddles a worthless miracle elixir from town to town.
Lucky Luke chases the real Dalton gang, Bob, Grat, Bill and Emmett, from their first bank job to their last stand at Coffeyville.
Lucky Luke takes on the crooked card sharp Pat Poker across two stories, cleaning up Red City and then Tumbleweed.
Three early Morris stories in which Lucky Luke wins a rigged horse race, sorts out a crooked cattle round-up, and trains a boxer, all under the wide Western sky.
An early solo Morris adventure across the Arizona territory, where Lucky Luke rides through a string of frontier scrapes and runs down the rustlers and crooks who prey on honest settlers.
Lucky Luke heads to a rodeo town where the crooked promoter Cactus Kid fixes the events and fleeces the crowd, and the lonesome cowboy sets out to win clean.
Lucky Luke recovers the stolen deed to Dick Digger's gold mine, only for the slippery thief Pistol Pete to snatch it back again and again.