Testing the extended entries thingy
Story: Michael Fleisher; Art: Rich Buckler; Inks: Dick Giordano & Friends; Letterist: Ben Oda; Colorist: Bob Lerose; Cover: Rich Buckler and Dick Giordano; Editor: Larry Hama
Jonah Hex 11, April 1978
Title: The Holdout!
In “The Holdout!” Jonah unmasks a card cheat named Preston who’s using a holdout device to palm cards. (A holdout device is similar to the device Jim West from The Wild Wild West used to have for his hidden sleeve derringer. See scan, because words, they fail me.) This leads to Jonah shooting several people in self-defense, but not Preston the card cheater, who now wants revenge and not only because Jonah decides to keep the holdout as a souvenir. But first, Jonah’s old flame, Joanna Mosby, from Jonah Hex 4 shows up and is still in love with him. But before she can declare/explain/recap anything, Jonah is knocked unconscious by one of Preston’s men and tied up so Preston can break both his hands with a sledgehammer. Joanna gets to watch all this, unable to scream or run for help, but does get Jonah to a doctor when the bad guys leave and spends the night with him, bandaged hands and all. The next day, broken carpal, metacarpal bones or whatever, Jonah cuts his fingers free of their bandages, takes the holdout and goes out to make a Jim West-type hidden sleeve derringer device because Preston said if Jonah was still around when he got back, he’d kill him. So when Preston comes back, Jonah shoots the men with him, and Joanna shoots Preston, and then he shoots her. She dies in Jonah’s arms.
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