Jumbo Comics #45
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJumbo Comics #45 is an anthology featuring multiple adventure stories: Sheena, Jungle Queen battles to save the last of the Pharaohs in "Fanged Keeper of the Fire-Gem"; ZX-5, Spies in Action engages in wartime espionage involving Japanese forces and allied military intervention; The Hawk returns to his ship's dock in the Orient and becomes entangled in a dangerous situation with a mysterious woman; and Drew Murdoch solves a ghastly riddle involving a zombie with a blood-lust in "Ghost Gallery."
Sheena stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy when she and Bob Reynolds discover a murdered prince in the jungle—and overhear two white men plotting with a corrupt native prince to eliminate an entire royal family for jewels. Racing against time to warn the true heirs of the Alexo tribe, Sheena must navigate treachery, wild beasts, and her own enemies to prevent a throne steeped in blood.
When Japanese forces deploy a deadly poison gas weapon against Chinese troops, the allied intelligence brass task the spy ZX-5 with a dangerous assignment: infiltrate Tokyo, locate the formula, and stop the chemical terror before it claims more lives. With help from a covert operative named Sue Kee, ZX-5 must impersonate a Japanese general, outwit a suspicious scientist, and escape a military interrogation—all while the fate of soldiers on both sides hangs in the balance.
Vacationing in New England, Stuart Taylor, Dr. Hayward, and Laura discover a mysterious tower and an armored skeleton—which springs to life through a stranger's time machine to share a tale of Viking adventure. The skeleton, revealed to be Lars, recounts his life as a fearless seaman fighting sea marauders, his whirlwind romance with Karen (a prince's daughter), and the tragic choices that followed when her father Prince Hildebrand refused to bless their union. This 1942 adventure weaves together themes of courage, forbidden love, and the weight of decisions made in a moment of desperation.
When a test blackout plunges the city into darkness, air raid warden Phineas Z. Alliburton—better known as the Creep—stumbles onto a murder in the Weston mansion, only to find himself wrongly accused by arriving police. Inspector Dayton must untangle the real culprits from the chaos as Dirty Louie Gilhooley's gang and the shifty Dora the Dip close in with guns drawn, all hunting for a fortune in rubies hidden in an unexpected place. It's up to the Creep's bumbling but surprisingly clever instincts to help clear his name and stop the real killers in the pitch-black basement showdown.
When zombies begin stalking Craigmoor, the isolated Bahama estate of young RAF pilot Barry Craig, the supernatural horror intensifies—claiming victims and leaving gruesome offerings on the beach. Barry calls in Drew Murdoch, a ghost specialist trained in the dark arts of zombie lore, to uncover who commands these soulless creatures and stop the bloodshed before more of his family falls prey. As the supernatural menace closes in, Murdoch must expose the living mastermind orchestrating the dead's reign of terror.
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Reprinted in Grandes Detectives #24 (1958), Jerry Iger's Golden Features #6 (1987)
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