I'm sending you to ta Hell with a message. When you meet the Devil... tell 'em Jonah Hex sends his regards. 
Jonah Hex (Volume 2) #13 is an issue of the series Jonah Hex (Volume 2) with a cover date of January, 2007. It was published on November 1, 2006.
Synopsis for "Retribution, Part I of III"
Wyoming Badlands, 1868
- Five outlaws, including former Union officer Captain Fulsome gather around a campfire at night. They discuss a recent robbery and the subsequent evasion of a pursuing posse. Suddenly, a mysterious stranger attacks from the shadows, taking each outlaw down one by one. He saves Captain Fulsome for last.
Flashback: Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 1862
- The Union army of West Tennessee raids a Confederate garrison. Rebel soldier Jonah Hex dives into the Union soldiers, slicing at them with a tomahawk. Captain Fulsome mans a Gatling gun and riddles Hex's body with bullets. Senior officer Colonel Ackerman orders all of the men at the garrison killed except for Jonah.
Flashback: Cumberland River, September 18th, 1862
- Colonel Ackerman and Captain Fulsome tie Jonah Hex to a makeshift crucifix on top of a skiff. Fulsome begins whipping him, and the resulting injuries scars Jonah's face and right eye. Having caused him sufficient agony, the Union officers set the skiff sailing down the river.
- Before long a man named Nathan and his son find Jonah's unconscious form upon the skiff. They bring him into their spacious home and nurse him back to health.
Flashback: January 17th, 1863
- As Jonah bonds with Nathan's son in the barn, outlaws dressed as confederate soldiers break into Nathan's home. They shoot Nathan in cold blood and prepare to rape his wife. Jonah Hex rushes out and begins hacking at the soldiers with an axe. He kills all three of them, but fails to save Nathan's life.
Wyoming Badlands, 1868
- Fulsome holds a captive woman at gunpoint but the mysterious stranger who killed his men manages to ambush him from behind. It is Jonah Hex. Having searched for him for five long years, Jonah exacts revenge upon the man who tortured him.
Hex body count: 10 (includes flashback sequences)
Appearing in "Retribution, Part I of III"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Ackerman (First appearance)
- Blix (Single appearance)
- Fulsome (Single appearance)
- Pete (Single appearance)
- Rick "Rufus" Debun (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Nathan (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Tennessee
- Cumberland River
- Fort Donelson
- American Old West
- Wyoming
- Badlands
- Badlands
- Wyoming
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in the Jonah Hex: Origins collection.
- This issue foreshadows Hex's scarred face by being whipped by Captain Fulsome. Two issues later, Jonah will receive the real scar by the Apache.
Trivia
- The tagline for this story is "The Shocking Origin of Jonah Hex".
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Jonah Hex Recommended Reading
- Western Recommended Reading
- Action Comics (Volume 1): featuring Vigilante
- All-American Western (Volume 1)
- All-Star Western (Volume 1)
- All-Star Western (Volume 2)
- All-Star Western (Volume 3)
- Bat Lash (Volume 1)
- Bat Lash (Volume 2)
- Crack Western (Volume 1)
- Frontier Fighters (Volume 1)
- Jonah Hex (Volume 1)
- Jonah Hex (Volume 2)
- Weird Western Tales (Volume 1)
- Weird Western Tales (Volume 2)
- Western Comics (Volume 1)