Marvel Mystery Comics #29
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Moonlight Murders," a 1942 installment of Marvel Mystery Comics, the Javelin—a big game hunter haunted by a rare illness that compels him to kill under the full moon—turns deadly, using carbon dioxide gas to neutralize Torch and Toro’s flames. As the heroes are framed for a murder they didn’t commit, they must clear their names and track down the true culprit before the next lunar cycle. Written and drawn by Carl Burgos, with a striking cover by Alex Schomburg, this issue blends pulp mystery with early superhero action in a standout chapter from Marvel’s Golden Age.
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The Javelin is a big game hunter who has contracted a rare disease which drives him to kill at certain times of the month. He uses carbon dioxide gas to put out Torch and Toro's flame and overpowers them. He makes it appear to police that they have killed a girl so the police chief attempts to arrest them but they resist arrest in order to track down the Javelin. When they apprehend him and turn him over to the cops, the police chief forgives them.
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