Jumbo Comics #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "null," Peter Pupp and his new sidekick Tinymite are snatched from their beds by The Rat and handed over to the eccentric scientist Watt A. Dogg, who has a wild theory that the moon is made of creme cheese. When Peter takes control of the rocket mid-flight, the ship veers off course and crash-lands on a mysterious, uncharted planet, where they encounter their first alien — a lone inhabitant whose identity will be revealed next issue.
In "null," The Hawk races against dawn to thwart Captain Merrystone’s ambush, using cunning and disguise to slip past his enemies. With Fluth’s help and the loyalty of his crew, he turns Merrystone’s own ship against him, freeing slaves and turning the tide before the sun rises. The Hawk stands ready, a shadow on the water, as the moment to return the freed to their home draws near.
In the shadow of political unrest, Edmond Dantes returns to Marseille after a perilous voyage, now commanding the ship Pharoah following the captain’s death. With a mysterious letter in his possession and a password only he knows, Dantes finds himself entangled in a web of jealousy and betrayal—his rival Danglars watching closely, and his beloved Mercedes caught between two men, one of whom would see him dead.
Spencer Steel, recovering from a gunshot wound, is pulled back into action when his friend and reporter, Doakes, brings news of the trial of the notorious Lucky Lucifer for murder. As Lucifer is sentenced to hang, he swears vengeance on Judge Grayson, setting off a dangerous chain of events that leads to a daring kidnapping—his brother, a scientist with the power to resurrect the dead, is taken by Lucifer’s gang.
In the eerie sci-fi tale "null," mind-bending experiments spiral out of control when the villainous Kromo swaps bodies with Stuart Taylor, leaving the real Taylor trapped in Kromo’s form. As Dr. Hayward and his daughter Lora welcome "Taylor" home, they soon realize something is terribly wrong—only Dr. Hayward sees the truth, and even he’s no match for the man wearing his daughter’s lover’s face.
In "null," a surreal gallery of cinematic legends—Fay Wray, Eddie Cantor, Clark Gable, Dame May Whitty, Anna Sten, Harpo Marx, Shirley Temple, Ramon Novarro, Edgar Bergen, Buddy Ebsen, Billy Gilbert, and Walt Disney—exists in a quiet, liminal space, their identities blurred by absence and memory. As they move through a dreamlike setting, each seems to sense a missing piece, a presence that should be there but isn’t, leaving behind only echoes of who they were and who they might have been.
In the heart of the untamed jungle, Bob Reynolds and Professor Van Dyke find themselves captured by Sheena’s guards, only to escape and walk boldly into her throne room. There, Van Dyke speaks to Sheena in her native tongue, claiming peaceful intent, as the medicine man begins to tell the tale of how she rose to become queen—of a lost Mogul force, a forgotten past, and the wild land that shaped her.
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