Believe it or not, the shot of LeCastor here saying that he doesn't fear death is his own hero shot. I mean, it's not bad, if you look at it. There's just that stray hair there, and you're just distracted by the horribleness of the panel following. I don't know what LeCastor means by that, as I guess it was one of those things I never got the opportunity to get around to. There's not many religious themes in this. Besides the cross around Rawhide's neck. He is I think a Spanish Catholic.
There's a lot of twists and turns and reveals on the bottom half of the page: Rawhide shows up to save LeCastor, but the hangman is the sheriff, and he himself is held gunpoint by what transpires on page 23 to be the Texas Ranger. I guess the entire thing was a gambit by him all along to get Rawhide out of hiding, a la the Sheriff of Nottingham hanging Friar Tuck so that Prince John can get at Robin Hood in
Robin Hood. Like, well, it worked.
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