Clue Comics #2 [2]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "A Leader Against Crime!", Detective Blair stumbles upon a mystery in a junkyard that leads him through a trail of shadows and a hidden factory where ragdolls conceal more than stuffing—steel bars meant for wartime use. With art by Tony DiPreta and a striking cover by Fred Kida, this 1943 Clue Comics standout blends pulp intrigue with wartime stakes, as Blair transforms into the vigilante Zippo to expose a dangerous secret.
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Detective Blair passes by a junkyard, hears a cry for help and encounters a suspicious man. Blair has a cabbie trail this man in a truck, which mysteriously disappears near a doll factory. Blair enters the factory, encounters more suspicious men, is knocked out and winds up in jail. Released on his own recognizance, he becomes Zippo and returns to the factory to further investigate and discovers that the ragdolls are filled with steel bars instead of straw, which other nations then melt down and use for their own purposes......good or bad. Zippo shuts down the illegal sale of defense steel.
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