Comic Title: Showcase Presents Jonah Hex Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: November 2, 2005 Direct Market Date November 2, 2005
Source: Previews, Vol. 15 #9 (#201)

Direct Market Date November 2, 2005
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Robert Greenberger

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Blood Brothers"
Pages: 16

Feature(s):
Jonah Hex (of Earth-1)

Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Tony DeZuniga

Reprinted From:
Weird Western Tales #20 (1973)

Feature Character(s)

• Jonah Hex (last appearance in Weird Western Tales #19; next appearance in Weird Western Tales #21)

Supporting Character(s)

• General (last appearance in Weird Western Tales #19; next appearance in Weird Western Tales #21)

Villain(s)

• John Running Wolf (an army corporal; no further appearances)
• Harrison Barnett (a town mayor; no further appearances)
• William Vandermeer (a railroad man; no further appearances)
• Gray Bear and some renegade indians (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Red and his friend (saloon patrons; no further appearances)
• Eileen Lacey (no further appearances)
• Red Horse (leader of an indian tribe; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Muriel (a woman from Boston; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Jonah Hex captures John Running Wolf an army corporal AWOL from Fort Lang. When Jonah delivers the indian, he finds the fort under attack by a band of indian raiders. They are easily driven off.

After getting his reward, Jonah finds a nearby saloon. Inside he is reunited with Eileen an old friend. He also meets the town mayor and railroad owner William Vandermeer. They hire him to retrieve a woman named Muriel, whom they claim was kidnapped by the local indian chief Red Horse.

Jonah tracks down Red Horse. He quickly learns that Muriel has willingly joined the indian as his wife. Jonah brings them both back anyway. Along the way, snipers kill Red Horse, who claimed the indian attacks on the fort were not his doing.

Jonah delivers Muriel and Red Horse's corpse to Vandermeer. He also survives an attack by John Running Wolf who was behind the renegade attacks. He was in Vandermeer's employ. They wanted to turn the army against the indians in order to drive the tribe off their lands, so that a railroad could be built. Jonah takes his reward for completing his assignment, leaving the conspirators to the authorities now that their scheme has been exposed.