Feature Comics #45
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Don Hernandez, Jewel Thief," a 1941 adventure from Feature Comics #45, a mysterious figure known as Samar uncovers a web of deception when war drums echo through the jungle and a tribal chief claims white men are threatening his people. With the help of a local diamond appraiser named Van Mar, Samar investigates a sudden explosion that reveals a dangerous scheme involving stolen gems and hidden motives. Max Elkan handles both pencils and inks for the story, while John Devlin provides the cover art.
Poison Ivy arrives at Neck and Neck Movie Studios hoping to land work as a stunt-man double, but the director puts him through a grueling audition that includes battling swordfish and surviving a treacherous "death-walk" gauntlet complete with broken glass, snakes, and molten lava. After proving his remarkable toughness by passing every test, Poison discovers there's one final obstacle standing between him and the job.
In "The Hyena-Men," Samar follows the sound of war drums to the Obandi village, where he questions the chief about the tribe’s unsettling war dance. When an explosion rocks the jungle, Samar discovers a group of men sabotaging a diamond appraisal led by Van Mar, a move that’s stirring unrest among the locals.
Captain Bruce Blackburn of Army Intelligence suspects sabotage when manganese shipments disappear from the Farnum Company—a critical resource for wartime aircraft production. Using his uncanny ability to be in two places at once with his double, Lieutenant Jackson, Bruce uncovers a spy ring operating from within, leading to a dangerous confrontation at an ore processing plant. Thrills, narrow escapes, and double identities collide in this high-stakes counterspy adventure.
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Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics #101 (2016)
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