Mystery Comics Digest #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"House Of Cards" in Mystery Comics Digest #5 (1972) delivers a tense, atmospheric tale of desperation and isolation, following Cecil Matthews, a disillusioned bank employee who flees with stolen money to a remote island he discovers in an old travel book. With Dan Spiegle handling both pencils and inks, the story unfolds with a stark, grounded visual style, while George Wilson's cover captures the eerie allure of the island's hidden danger.
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Cecil Matthews is a bank employee who is sick of his job. He steals $30,000 and flys to Hawaii where he plans to charter a plane to Papinee, an island he found in an old "Islands of Paradise" book. The bank notices the theft before he can get to Papinee so he hijacks a mail plane to fly him there. Once there he kills the pilot and settles in at the deserted village. What Cecil doesn't know is that the reason the village is deserted is that the Island of Papinee was chosen by the Government to use in a missile test. The next day he is destroyed when the bomb is detonated on the island.
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