Manhunt #5

In the heart of the African jungle, Starr races against time to track down Alexis Pauloff’s deadly steel-rotting formula—only to be ambushed by a massive gorilla. Just as danger closes in, Madam Darkova intervenes, her motives as mysterious as her grip on Starr, who now finds himself trapped in a web far more perilous than the wild.

Inspector Ronald Kirk of Scotland Yard teams up with Connie Gregg to investigate the disappearance of her fiancé, following a trail of mysterious fishhooks and rumors of a madman preying on swimmers in the waters near Lake Otter. As Kirk closes in on the culprit—the brilliant but unhinged Jason Reel, who's conducting twisted experiments to transform humans into water-breathing creatures—the inspector finds himself ensnared in Reel's deadly web and forced to fight for his life against both the lunatic scientist and his own ingenious traps.

On the scorched deserts of Proxima Centauri's first planet, Space Ace and his young partner Jak Tal find themselves stranded, desperate, and seemingly at each other's throats—until an invisible pirate vessel and its commander, Nev Ran, offer Jak Tal a chance at revenge. What unfolds is a high-stakes game of deception across space as the Patrol races to stop Nev Ran's invisible fleet from striking a platinum convoy, with loyalties and survival hanging by a thread.

Agent Jim Fallon goes undercover in the communist underground, posing as the criminal Ned Falkirk to infiltrate a plot to seize control of maritime unions and cripple America's shipping industry. When Fallon is ordered to eliminate Jan Umberly, the union chief who stands in the way, he must find another way—enlisting reporter Myrrl Russel to help him expose the Red conspiracy before it's too late. A tense waterfront showdown awaits as Fallon closes in on the shadowy operative known as Masque.

When a ventriloquist posing as the legendary Petrel—a supposed god of the Arctic—uses his voice-throwing skills to manipulate Eskimo tribes into stealing gold and committing murder, Red Fox of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is sent to investigate the threat in the frozen north. The Mountie must survive both the deadly ice floes and the very real threat of a stake-burning ceremony to expose the false god and bring the criminal to justice. A tale of Arctic intrigue where the Red Fox discovers that even the most elaborate deception can crumble when a ventriloquist loses his voice.