Hurricane Belle

Hurricane Belle is a hard-drinking, hard-riding female gunslinger from Greentowne, Illinois. As the current proprietor of The Longhorn Tavern, she joined The Night Raiders after a group of ex-confederate mercenaries murdered several of her working girls. A formidable crack-shot in her own right, she frequently cuts the Six Shooter down to size whenever he gets too fresh. In later stories, she plays a crucial role in the Raiders' battle against The Makepeace Consortium and their devil-worshipping cult.

Background
Originally titled The Chief, Belle first appeared in a Six-Gun Smith yarn drawn by Wally Wood and published in Western Crime Smashers no. 7 (October 1951). Starting out as a masked villainess, she was eventually revealed to be the town's dressmaker, "Miz Young," and apprehended by the local sheriff. Escaping from jail the same night, she fled east, returning first to her family in Greentowne before seeking employment in Chamberlain City. Taking a job at The Longhorn Tavern, she eventually won the casino in a high-stakes poker game (and was forced to shoot the owner in self-defense when he tried to renege on the wager).

Despite having earned her fortune, she still retained a trace of wanderlust in her veins and begins riding out at night as a masked vigilante, tracking down bandits, russlers and "varmints" for the sheer thrill of it. In time, she meets up with The Night Raiders, joining their quest to battle the demonic forces stalking the backstreets of Chamberlain. In the penultimate story-arc, she forms a close friendship with Professor A.E. Herron, promising to return to Oxford with him if they survive their latest mission.