Story #2The Angel
Writer/Penciler/Inker/Letterer:
Paul Gustavson. Colorist:
Unknown.
Synopsis
A mafia group has a city under control and charges victims for protection. The police can find no witnesses to keep the crooks behind bars. A man called Dr. Lang advises the commissioner to ask a superhero called the Angel for help. That individual appears and visits the crooks, called the Six Big Men, one by one. He ends them for good.
At one point, some criminals captured the Angel. But a woman called Lil saved him. As the Angel progressed in his mission, he suspected the plot was thicker. He was right. After dealing with the last crook, the Angel discovered that Dr. Lang was the mafia leader and tricked the Angel to get rid of his associates so he would not split their criminal gains with them.
The Angel brings Dr. Lang and Lil, his assistant, to the police.
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Characters:
Story #3Namor the Sub-Mariner
Writer/Penciler/Inker/Letterer:
Bill Everett. Colorist:
Unknown.
Synopsis
Two divers in early 20-century suits discover a young man swimming in the cold, deep waters near Antartica while researching a wrecked ship. He is Namor, the Sub-Mariner, who confuses the divers with robots and kills them. When a third diver alerts the danger to the crew, the S. S. Survivor boat departs, but Namor, with superhuman strength, throws the vessels against a rocky coast, destroying it.
Namor brings the two divers to his underwater city and shows them to a top official (note: Emperor Tha-Korr), learning they were both surface men. The official looks like an aquatic human. Namor’s mother (note: Princess Fen), who has light blue skin but looks human, congratulates him for starting a war of revenge upon humanity. Puzzled, Namor wonders why such a war should take place since his father, Commander Leonard McKenzie, a surface man, was a good person.
She tells Namor why their people want to attack humankind. Before he was born, ships neared their underwater city and using bombs meant for scientific purposes, destroyed buildings, killing many. But their armies were no match for men. They sent her to infiltrate them and disrupt them from the inside. It’s when she met Namor’s father. A gentle man, he protected and befriended her. The two fell in love and had Namor.
The Sub-Mariner’s skin is like the surface dwellers. He can stay outside of water for very long, has superhuman strength, durability and can fly. He can lead a counterattack to avenge at last the tragedies they suffered.
With his cousin Dorma, Namor swims to a shore and wrecks a light house, hoping to cause ships nearby to crash at night. He fights all who oppose him. Finally, he flies to an airplane, bringing Dorma with him. After dispatching the pilot, and placing her in his seat, he returns to the waters to resume his mission.
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Characters:
Plus: Emperor Tha-Korr, Fen (
Princess Fen).
Story #4The Masked Raider
Writer/Penciler/Inker:
Al Anders. Colorist:
Unknown. Letterer:
Unknown.
Synopsis
A powerful and corrupt rancher called Cal Brunder sends his gun-men to small ranchers. They scare them into selling their lands to Brunder at a cheap price. But one of them, Jim Gardley, soundly resists.
Falsely accused of stealing cattle, Gardley ends up in prison. Instead of waiting for a fixed trial, he escapes and prepares, for months, to get back at Brunder’s gang. During this time, he tamed a wild white horse called Lightning, and enhanced his firing speed and aim. To protect his identity, he covered his face with a bandana, calling himself the Masked Raider.
Meanwhile, Brunder’s men kill a small rancher and his wife. The sheriff, controlled by Brunder, disapproved such a violence. It’s when the Masked Rider showed up to make them pay! He gets them one by one, aided by townspeople, until they corner Cal Brunder, ending his firm grip on their town, Cactusville.
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Characters:
Story #5Jungle Terror: A Complete Adventure Story
Writer:
Unknown. Penciler/Inker:
Art Pinajian. Colorist:
Unknown. Letterer:
Unknown.
Synopsis
Worried about professor Roberts who hasn’t returned from his trip to the Amazon jungle, his friend Ken Masters and Roberts’ nephew, Tim, fly to find him. Roberts went in search of a special diamond rumored to be in that jungle. But a gang, lead by a criminal called John Crafton, follows the rescuers; they plan to steal the diamond from them.
Masters crash lands on the jungle after his plane malfunctioned. Fortunately, neither he nor Tim got injured. But they’re captured by natives and taken prisoners. Crafton’s plane lands soon after and natives corner them too.
When Masters and Tim enter the prison hut, they find professor Roberts. Natives locked him when they learned he was after their diamond. The tribe planned to kill them soon. Fortunately, the hut had a hidden entrance to a tunnel. Escaping through it, they reached a cavern with thousands of diamonds. But Crafton and his man were there, too, after escaping the natives in similar circumstances.
Natives arrive and kill both criminals. Masters uses Crafton’s pistol to hold the natives at bay, and the three barely escape alive in Crafton’s airplane.
Finally, Masters shows his rescuers a diamond he grabbed during the altercate.
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Characters:
Ken Masters, Professor John Roberts, Tim Roberts.
Story #6Ka-Zar the Great
Writer/Penciler/Inker:
Ben Thompson. Colorist:
Unknown. Letterer:
Unknown.
Synopsis
John Rand, a diamond field owner, was flying to Cairo with his wife Constance and their 3-year-old son David when the airplane malfunctioned. Crash landing in the Belgium Congo, Constance broke her leg. Unfortunately, no rescue planes found them, her condition worsen and died. John set to return to civilization with young David. But during a severe storm, John got hit on the head, affecting his brain, now considering the jungle as his valid home.
Time passed, and both got used to living in the savage environment. David had a mysterious talent for befriending animals. He learned to communicate with them. The jungle leader, an adult lion called Zar, watched the boy with respect. One day, Zar fell in quicksand, and David rescued him. The lion’s respect for David only grew.
John and David stumbled upon a pair of black natives and a white man of dubious morals. He was after emeralds. When John asked them to leave, the man, named Paul De Kraft, shot him but missed. David hit De Kraft in the arm with an arrow.
Revengefully, De Kraft returned, burned their hut, and shot John, this time with good aim, while David was inspecting their tent. When David returned and seemed will follow his dad’s misfortune, Zar, the lion, attacked and killed the natives. De Kraft escaped.
After burying his father, David gets invited by Zar to live in his cavern. He forms a pact with the boy, from that day on, he will be known as Ka-Zar, which means, the brother of Zar, the mighty lion!
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Characters:
Plus: Chaka (
gorilla), N'Jaga (
leopard), Sha (
lioness), Trajah (
elephant), Zar (
lion).