My Greatest Adventure #1
From DC's inaugural issue of My Greatest Adventure (January–February 1955), this ten-cent anthology promises exactly the kind of breathless thrills its title advertises. John Prentice's cover drops us into a jungle ambush scene where two men crouch behind cover, guns drawn, while a pink truck — reportedly loaded with nitro in its bed — barrels down the road ahead; the speech bubble makes the stakes nail-bitingly clear. Inside, Leonard Starr brings the featured story "I Was King of Dagger Island!" to life, alongside additional tales "My Cargo Was Death!" and "I Hunted a Flying Saucer!" — a fine cross-section of the era's appetite for adventure, danger, and the unexplained.
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When their ship is blown up in the Pacific in 1944, Doyle and Howell find themselves washed up on the shores of a tropical island. A group of natives rush at them and bow before Doyle, who reasons that because of his diving equipment they think him a god. Savages from a nearby island constantly raid the island and Doyle uses dynamite to sink their craft. He decides to stay and be treated as a god, but Howell knocks him out and drags him back to a passing U.S. ship.
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