Comic Title: Weird Western Tales #23
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Jul/Aug 1974
On Sale Date: April 9, 1974 Newsstand Date April 9, 1974
Source: Comic Reader, #105

Copyright Date April 9, 1974
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1974

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.20
Page Count: 32
Editor: Joe Orlando

Title: "The Point Pyrrhus Massacre"
Pages: 20

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

Writer: Michael L. Fleisher
Artist: Tony DeZuniga

Reprinted In:
Jonah Hex and Other Western Tales #1 (1979)
Showcase Presents Jonah Hex Vol. 1 TPB (2006)
Weird Western Tales:Jonah Hex Vol. 1 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Jonah Hex (last appearance in Weird Western Tales #22; next appearance in Weird Western Tales #24)

Villain(s)

• Lucas and Virgil Lando (outlaws; Virgil dies in this story; no further appearances)
• The sheriff of Point Pyrrhus (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• The man with the eagle-topped cane (not named in this story; last appearance in Weird Western Tales #22; next appearance in Weird Western Tales #26)
• A gang of would-be assassins (all die in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Ulysses S. Grant (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Michael Fenton (a Secret Service agent; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Several presidential advisors (no further appearances)
• Solomon (last appearance in Weird Western Tales #22; next appearance in Weird Western Tales #26)
• The townspeople of Point Pyrrhus (next appearance in Weird Western Tales #24)

Comments:
This story continues in part in Weird Western Tales #24.

This story takes place during President Grant's tour of the West. No date is mentioned, but in the real world the tour took place in April, 1873.

Synopsis:
Jonah Hex kills one of the Lando brothers and captures the other. He brings them to the town of Point Pyrrhus to collect the bounty. While Hex waits for his money to arrive from the capital, he is approached by Secret Service agent Michael Fenton. President Grant is touring the West by train and will be stopping in Point Pyrrhus. Fenton hires Hex to assist him in protecting the President.

Fenton and Hex track down a gang of men who want to assassinate Grant for his southern-friendly policies. When they are captured by the gang, Fenton gives his life to allow Hex to escape. Jonah then goes after the rest of the gang who are set to ambush the President's train.

The sheriff of Point Pyrrhus has been hired by an old enemy of Jonah's to kill him. He ambushes Hex while Jonah is trying to stop the assassins. The sheriff is killed, and Jonah manages to detonate a stick of dynamite to take out the assassins. However, he is caught in the blast.

Grant's train passes the town without stopping. The President has been called back to Washington on urgent business. Aboard the train is Hex's enemy, who sees Jonah's body lying in the street seemingly dead. Jonah clings to life, but the town doctor believes the prognosis for his survival is grim.