Shanna is hallucinating she is in the jungle, attacked by
vines. But it’s really the work of The Pride, a trio of jungle cat themed
mystics who are recruiting agents to kill for them. The other three candidates,
Kinsey Gardner, Martin Friend, and Slam Sanders, agree to the Pride’s
arrangement, each one accepting a Pride member as ally and protector. Friend
and his cat guide depart, as he has misgivings….
Shanna is discovered by a maid and the heroine is taken to a
mental hospital, prescribed Thorazine, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Dorothy Betz,
has been called in. Shanna tries to explain what happened but it’s clear Dr.
Betz doesn’t believe her. So Shanna breaks her bonds and leaps out of the
window, changing into her leopard-skin outfit as she dashes over rooftops. She
retrieves her car and drives home to spend the night with her pet python
Ananta….
She is awoken the next morning by Deena and Chris, whom she
met on the beach a few nights earlier. So she takes a shower, the visitors have
breakfast, and Shanna tracks down television writer Martin Friend’s agent
Feingold. His secretary tries to brush her off but Feingold, on seeing the
gorgeous Shanna, ushers her into his office. There, Shana mentions Martin
Friend and demands to know who Friend would like to kill. After some
consideration, the agent suggests Ginny Jenkins, a former protégé of Friend’s
who has becomes a success….
Shanna goes to the film studio but the guard turns her away.
So she slips into her leopard suit and goes over the wall, blending in with the
oddly dressed actors. But in Jenkins’ office, Martin Friend is already
haranguing her over her poor prospects for the future. He topples her from her
wheelchair then bludgeons her with an Emmy statuette just as Shanna bursts in.
The enraged Shanna disarms Friend and gives him a beating—which stops when the
victim, Ginny Jenkins, gets up, apparently unharmed, denying that Friend did
anything worse than get angry. Puzzled, Shanna leaves, vowing to get to the
bottom of the mystery….
For the special marvelite in you
Story #2Power and Duty
Writer:
Bill Mantlo.Penciler:
George Freeman. Inker:
Al Milgrom. Colorist:
Glynis Oliver. Letterer:
Jim Novak.
Synopsis
One hot night in New Orleans, Monica Rambeau
can’t sleep so she heads out into the skies as Captain Marvel. She recalls an
incident when she was on the Harbor Patrol and she and her partner John Audain
were pursuing a smuggler in a cigarette boat. John jumped over into the bad
guy’s boat but the guy hit him with a bat, causing him to lose his balance. But
a second blow never fell because Monica shot the bat out of the bad guy’s hand.
She slept well that night. CM picks up a radio call of a police officer trapped
in an alley by two criminals. CM flies down there and uses her powers to make
the villains’ guns too hot to hold and then she knocks them out. Before the cop
can thank her she overhears another radio call about a jumper on South Street
Bridge. She flies out there and her memory is full of the time when she tried
to talk down a jumper and failed. Now she encounters a junkie at the end of her
rope who thinks the glowing Captain Marvel is a hallucination. The woman jumps
and CM quickly resumes her human form to grab onto her and hold her. The police
come to their rescue and the woman asks why CM would risk her life for a
junkie? A cop also asks that of CM who flies off telling him that it was so she
could get a night’s sleep and that her reasons aren’t so different from his. He
doesn’t understand as we see a close up of his badge, reading, “To serve and
protect”….
Story #3A Norm Breyfogle Portfolio
Writer:
. Penciler/Inker:
Norm Breyfogle. Colorist:
Norm Breyfogle.
Synopsis
Portraits of Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), Spider-Man
versus Electro, Hulk (Rick Jones) versus Blob, Wasp, and The Captain.