National Comics #51
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe Barker investigates a chain of strange events that leads to the discovery of a missing link. In one storyline, a woman in a red dress becomes entangled with a man in a patterned green jacket who has been secretly covering her with a gun; she manages to turn the tables and draw her own weapon. Elsewhere, a criminal scheme involving a banker named Ambers and extortion notes is exposed when the Whistler intervenes, with police and criminal elements converging on the location as the Whistler prepares to reveal his identity and capture the culprits.
When fortune teller Madame Futura warns The Barker that danger is coming to Colonel Lane's traveling circus, a mysterious sailor arrives with a bizarre creature he calls the Missing Link—a creature that may not be quite what it seems. As the creature wreaks havoc on the circus performers and escapes its cage, The Barker and the show's attractions must find a way to control the beast before tomorrow's big performance. Can they turn disaster into the greatest show on earth, or will the Missing Link destroy everything in its path?
Quicksilver, the former trapeze artist, springs into action when a stranger in town is brutally attacked by armed thugs—and soon discovers his new ally is James Eagle, a member of the Black Rock Indian Tribe in town on a crucial mission for his people. But when Eagle is ambushed and left unconscious, Quicksilver must uncover the truth behind the assault before a supposed rescuer strikes a final, deadly blow.
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Reprinted in Blackhawk Comic #10 (1950), Marmaduke Mouse #12
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