Sleep well, Padre. Tomorrow they're all gonna die.
- -- Jonah Hex
Appearing in "Bullets of Silver, Cross of Gold!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Alma (Single appearance)[1]
Adversaries:
- Branson Ironside (Single appearance)[1]
- Mister Tenner (Single appearance)[1]
- Santiago (Single appearance)[1]
Other Characters:
Locations:
Items:
- Golden crucifix
Vehicles:
- None
Synopsis for "Bullets of Silver, Cross of Gold!"
In Alamogordo, New Mexico, two bandits named Santiago and Tenner disrupt a piñata party killing everyone in the town square. They then raid a small church, assaulting the local priest and stealing a cross made out of gold. Santiago shoots the priest and the two ride off. The priest, still alive, manages to find his niece who has been nursing a recovering Jonah Hex. Upon hearing what has happened, Hex agrees to retrieve the cross. Alma insists on coming with him and proves her value by a showy display of her knife-wielding talents.
The two travel together for six days until they come to the mining town of Silverton. They meet the town elder, a Georgian named Branson Ironside. Ironside has already captured Santiago and Tenner and is holding them prisoner inside the town jail. His distaste for Jonah Hex's chosen occupation is made abundantly clear.
That night, Hex and Alma rent a room at the town hotel. Hex instructs Alma to use her female wiles to distract anyone who might be watching from afar, allowing him the opportunity to sneak out. He breaks into a general store and steals a supply of dynamite, then begins planting it at strategic positions throughout the town. When he returns to the hotel, he finds Ironside and his men waiting for him.
Branson Ironside drags Jonah outside, and plans on killing him as an example to the others. He has no tolerance for bandits or bounty hunters. Jonah withdraws his revolver and fires a shot past Ironside igniting one of the hidden sticks of dynamite. The explosion kills Branson and starts a chain reaction by igniting the other piles of dynamite that he has planted throughout the thoroughfare.
During the chaos, Santiago and Tenner manage to break out of jail. Taking advantage of the carnage, they make for the silver mines which gave the town its name. Other miners begin panicking and follow suit hoping to secure as much silver as possible. As throngs of people begin pushing past each other into the mines, the entire shaft collapses on top of them. Witnessing the incident from a safe distance Alma exclaims, "Those poor people...", to which Jonah replies, "Not so poor... they're buried in silver".
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in the Jonah Hex: Face Full of Violence trade paperback.
- This issue is divided into four chapters:
- Part I: Dìa de los Santos Reyes
- Part II: Bullets of Silver. Cross of Gold.
- Part III: Massacre at Silverton
- Part IV: This Town Needs a Bigger Cemetery
See Also
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Jonah Hex Vol 2 2 on the forums
- Images from Jonah Hex Vol 2 2
Recommended Reading
- All-American Western
- All-Star Western (Volume 1)
- All-Star Western (Volume 2)
- All-Star Western (Volume 3)
- Frontier Fighters
- Jonah Hex (Volume 1)
- Jonah Hex (Volume 2)
- Weird Western Tales (Volume 1)
- Weird Western Tales (Volume 2)
- Western Comics
Links and References
- Jonah Hex at Wikipedia.org
- Jonah Hex at DCU Guide
- Jonah Hex at TV Tropes
- Jonah Hex at Toonopedia
- Jonah Hex at Lonely Geek
- Jonah Hex Blog with a "Body Count"
Footnotes
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