Brenda Starr Comics #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBrenda Starr, intrepid reporter, pursues a dangerous criminal across rooftops and through an industrial setting in a harrowing chase sequence. Later, Brenda is late arriving at a fashion show despite her assignment to cover it, while her editor Snapper waits anxiously and other city reporters gather at the event. The comic also includes a prose mystery story involving detectives investigating the death of Betty Osborn, with a key discovery that becomes crucial evidence in solving the case.
Brenda Starr heads to the prison to cover a condemned man's execution—but the convict, Mugs Larson, has an unusual final request: meet with him before the end, then visit an address at Luna Park. When Brenda and her photographer Snapper arrive at the crumbling amusement park after the execution, they discover something impossible waiting for them on a motionless merry-go-round. What follows is a deadly game where Brenda must uncover why a supposedly dead man has gone to such elaborate lengths to lure her into his trap.
When a slow news day drives editor Muggs Walter to desperate measures, he dreams up a prank: transform copy boy Pesky Miller into the High Prince of Westophilia and let the competing papers run wild with the fabricated royal visit. But Pesky's scheme takes an unexpected turn when he forgets himself on a radio quiz show, sparking a chain of events that threatens to blow the whole con wide open. What starts as a gag to scoop the competition becomes something far more audacious—and it's all happening live on the air.
When Carl Magee takes over the Morning Journal in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he discovers evidence of graft in public land sales—and refuses to stay silent despite threats from powerful politicians including Senator Albert B. Fall. Facing intimidation, legal persecution, and financial pressure, Magee fights to keep his newspaper independent and committed to uncovering the truth, even as his opponents try to drive him out of town. This true story captures one editor's determination to make "freedom of the press" mean something real.
When Brenda covers an exclusive fashion show, the secrecy surrounding designer Anatole's mystery gown becomes the least of her worries—model Sherry Moore turns up dead with a bullet in her chest, and suspicion falls on Conrad Cornwallis, Sherry's ex-boyfriend who was seen backstage. Brenda's sharp questioning uncovers a deadly contradiction that puts her directly in the path of a desperate killer.
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