Feature Comics #36
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Python the Brain Thief," Will Eisner crafts a chilling mystery from the pages of Feature Comics #36, where The Doll Man faces a terrifying foe who leaves behind headless bodies along the riverbank. With Eisner's writing and the dynamic art of Eisner and Lou Fine, this 1940 thriller blends suspense and pulp intrigue, as The Doll Man races to outthink a criminal mastermind before it's too late.
In "Python the Brain Thief," The Doll Man faces a chilling mystery as headless bodies turn up along the river, each victim seemingly drained of something vital. With the deadly Python targeting minds instead of lives, The Doll Man must outthink a foe who preys on intellect—before his own is next.
Sergeant Reynolds of the Mounted Police follows a vicious narcotics ring operating in western Canada, only to find his investigation complicated when a mysterious school teacher named Madge Carr boards a river steamer—but she's far more than she appears. As bodies pile up and Reynolds races upriver to Red Baylor's hidden fortress, he must uncover the truth behind Carr's deception and stop the ringleader before the entire operation slips away.
When a radio singer turns up dead in a car crash, The Voice—the mysterious Mr. Elixir—pushes past a dismissive police force to investigate murders that have the broadcasting world in chaos. Tracking the clues to the station itself, The Voice confronts John Burke, the station's president, in a deadly game of pursuit that leads to a booby-trapped hideout where a bellhop named Tommy becomes the unwitting target of Burke's murderous desperation. Only The Voice's superhuman strength and cunning stand between Burke's escape and justice.
Captain Bruce Blackburn races against time to protect an inventor's revolutionary new motor from foreign spies who'll stop at nothing to steal the plans. When standard escape routes prove deadly, Bruce must improvise a daring solution that turns the very invention he's guarding into his only way out—and proves that sometimes the best defense is outsmarting your enemies at their own game.
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Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics #101 (2016), Golden-Age Greats Spotlight #19 (2019)
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