Doll Man #29

When Darrel Dane and Dr. Roberts' metal-dissolving compound becomes the target of Queen Mab's crime syndicate, the brilliant young scientist is taken hostage to force completion of the formula. The Doll Man must face off against Mab herself—a criminal mastermind who happens to be his own diminutive size—in a battle of wits and will where the stakes are both the precious discovery and something far more personal. With the doctor and his daughter forced to work under threat, Darrel wages a dangerous game to outwit the tiny temptress before her next move.

In "Ye Shall Die by Fire!" from Doll Man #29 (1950), Darrel faces the lingering curse of his ancestor Jeremiah, who once battled a witch whose malevolent magic now targets the seventh in his bloodline. With the Black Witch driven by an ancient vow to destroy him, Darrel must confront a foe bound to her own fiery doom.

A ventriloquist's dummy named Quippo is brought to life by the mad science of Professor A. Z. Swur, but the newly awakened puppet has his own sinister plans—and Doll Man must uncover the connection between Quippo's artificial existence and a series of high-tech thefts. When the case leads back to the ventriloquist Barclay and his unwilling partner in crime, the pint-sized hero discovers that giving life to the lifeless can create something far more dangerous than anyone imagined.