Comic Title: Jonah Hex #2
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: May/Jun 1977
On Sale Date: February 1, 1977 Newsstand Date February 1, 1977
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #471, Page 17

Newsstand Date February 1, 1977
Source: Comic Reader, #140

Copyright Date February 1, 1977
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1977

Newsstand Date January 31, 1977
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 77 #4
Listed as on sale the week of January 31st

Shipping Date January 11, 1977
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #3

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.30
Page Count: 32
Editor: Joe Orlando

Title: "The Lair of the Parrot"
Pages: 17

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

Writer: Michael L. Fleisher
Artist: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Colorist: Liz Berube

Reprinted In:
Jonah Hex:Welcome to Paradise TPB (2010)
Showcase Presents Jonah Hex Vol. 2 TPB (2014)

Feature Character(s)

• Jonah Hex (last appearance in Jonah Hex #1; next appearance in Jonah Hex #3)

Villain(s)

• El Papagayo (first appearance; next appearance in Jonah Hex #9)
• Ned Landon (a phony Secret Service agent; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A gang of bandits (Pedro, Fernando, Rodrigo, and Emilio named; no further appearances)
• The man with the eagle-topped cane (last appearance in Weird Western Tales #30; next appearance in Jonah Hex #4)

Other Character(s)

• Sheriff Baxter and Tiny (a deputy; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• A shopkeeper (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Tom (a sheriff; no further appearances)
• The residents of Wyandott (Luke named; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story reveals that Mr. Turnbull is still alive. How he survived being impaled by a pitchfork is not revealed.

An ongoing storyline in which Jonah is wanted for murder begins in this story.

This story mentions Porfirio Diaz is President of Mexico. He reached office on May 12, 1877. Given events later in the Jonah Hex timeline, including his trip to the future in 1875, this story most likely takes place several years earlier, indicating that Earth-1 history deviated slightly from that of the real world.

Synopsis:
Jonah Hex is apprehended by the sheriff of Wyandott, Texas. He is accused of robbing a store, but the charges are merely a ruse to get Jonah into the sheriff's office. He is then hired by Ned Landon of the Secret Service to infiltrate the gang of a Mexican bandit known as El Papagayo.

Jonah takes the job and travels to Mexico under the pretense of selling stolen weapons. He successfully embeds himself in the gang, but when the bandits discover the stolen guns are missing the firing pins, Jonah is blamed.

Jonah escapes and heads back to Wyandott to find Landon. When he returns he learns that he has been blamed for the murder of the sheriff, who was really killed by Landon. The supposed Secret Service agent is really in the employ of Mr. Turnbull, who intentional framed Hex. Turnbull then kills Landon to eliminate witnesses.