Gene Autry Comics #31

Escaped convicts rob the dry-goods store, take the merchant's boy hostage. Gene, the sheriff and posse pursue, are pinned in the canyon by rifle fire from villains above, Gene sorties alone to circle behind the culprits. He disables the sentry, finds the cabin in the gulch holding the main body, sneaks in, gets the boy, sneaks out with the boy who hazes the convicts' horses while Gene takes them all on single-handed, subdues them. The others arrive to take the prisoners in. Gene gives the boy his badge, a keepsake.