Comic Title: Ms. Tree Quarterly #3
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: Spring 1991
On Sale Date: November 20, 1990 Shipping Date November 20, 1990
Source: Previews, #21

Shipping Date November 20, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #185

Direct Market Date November 22, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #175

Cover Price: $3.95
Page Count: 80
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "Ghost Dance"
Pages: 11

Feature(s):
Butcher

Writer: Mike Baron
Artist: Shea Anton Pensa

Feature Character(s)

• Butcher (last appearance in Ms. Tree Quarterly #2; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #1)

Villain(s)

• Crippled Elk (dies in this story; last appearance in Ms. Tree Quarterly #2; no further appearances)
• Followers of Crippled Elk (last appearance in Ms. Tree Quarterly #2; no further appearances)
• Wesley Wilson (last appearance in Ms. Tree Quarterly #2; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Perry Thigpen (no further appearances)

Comments:
This is a prose story with spot illustrations.

This story is continued from Ms. Tree Quarterly #2.

Synopsis:
From a concealed point on a plateau, Butcher watches as Crippled Elk speaks to his followers claiming to be the war shaman known as Shatter Eye. Crippled Elk wants his people to attack the white man. Butcher then uses phosphorus grenades to stage an entrance. He also claims to be Shatter Eye and confronts the war leader. Butcher's knowledge of the Lakota language allows him to keep Crippled Elk's followers in doubt. The two men then engage in a knife fight to the death. Butcher kills his enemy, sustaining several wounds in the process.

As the battle concludes, his ruse is finally discovered by Wesley Wilson. The followers of the slain leader then chase Butcher off a cliff. Butcher uses a parachute to survive the fall. Wounded, he makes his way to the home of Perry Thigpen. After cleaning his wounds and resting, Perry returns home to inform Butcher that Crippled Elk's wounds healed after the battle. The shaman and his followers are now headed for an attack on the Rapid City courthouse.