"Bart Buckle (Earth-616)" VS "Bart Carter (Earth-616)"

A vagabond living in the streets of New York City, Bart Buckle looked for shelter in a purportedly abandoned Lifelike Manikin Factory. He discovered that the building was being secretly used as a base of operation by fugitive crimelord Fu Manchu and his minions of the Si Fan gang. They captured Buckle and mutagenically altered him in an unproved process that combined Buckle's DNA with that of an alligator. Buckle was then brainwashed to become a minion of Fu.[1] Having adopted the name "Gator", Buckle was sent on a mission. Fu had used kidnapped genius Cameron Seaver to build five so-called Spirit Bombs that, at detonation, would open a portal to the extradimensional hell-like Nether Realm, with nearby people being absorbed to be tormented. Fu prepared one bomb to be hidden in the sewers near the United Nations Headquarters in New York City so that international diplomats would be to all effects obliterated. Fu entrusted this bomb to Gator for its protection, convincing Gator that the bomb was a gator egg that, when hatched, would turn everyone in the city in alligator-like beings like Gator himself - something that Gator would have wanted. With six alligators helping him, Gator remained underground between 1st and 42nd Streets, where the building would be affected.

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The Western Kid, his horse Whirlwind and dog Lightning pass by the old man Hasting's spread and witness the elderly cripple and his family being pressured by their ranch hand, Bart Carter, to give him half the profits from the sale of cattle he has been hired to move. Carter has also demanded that Hasting allow him to marry his granddaughter Marcia. Despite the fact that she loves Pete Lane, Marcia is willing to go through with the deal in order to save her father from losing money on his cattle. With Hastings being forced to agree to the deal, the Western Kid tells the old man that he will try to do something to get the old man out of his situation, however Carter warns his men to be vigilant as he suspects that Tex Dawson will try something. Tex first rides over to Pete Lane's home and tells him to go and keep an eye on Marcia while he handles the situation. As the Kid rides off he suspects that greedy Bart Carter will try to find a way to claim all the profits from the sale of cattle and will attempt to change the branding on the cattle to his own. To try and catch him in this act, the Western Kid attempts to start a stampede of the longhorns, but is knocked out by Carter and his men. When Tex comes around he finds himself and Whirlwind tied up and Lightning missing, presumed dead in the stampede. However, Lightning survived and while Carter and his men prepare to rebrand one of the cattle, Lightning attacks while Whirlwind chews through his master's bonds. He then makes short work of Carter and his men, turn them over to the authorities and sells the cattle for Hasting.

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