Pep Comics #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Mines of Count Zongarr," the Comet—fresh from aiding the police—wakes to find himself drugged and kidnapped, whisked across the country to California and into the clutches of Satan and the sinister Count Zadar. Under a hypnotic spell, the hero is twisted into a killer, forced to serve Zadar’s criminal schemes until a shocking betrayal sets him on a path of reckoning. Written and illustrated by Jack Cole, this gripping tale from Pep Comics #3 (1940) features a haunting cover by Irv Novick, marking a pivotal moment in the character’s early arc.
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The Comet returns home after working with the police. Drugged as he sleeps and kidnapped, traveling for five days he arrives in California and Satan's clutches. The Comet is hypnotized, after three days, by Zadar to hate the law, hate the police and to kill anyone who stands in his way. The Comet begins to rob and kill for Zadar and Satan. Suddenly Zadar finds out Satan was cheating him. Zadar commands The Comet to Kill Satan. After Satan is dead, The Comet returns to Zadar, but forgets to lower his lens and disintegrates him, breaking the trance. The Comet realizes he's now an outlaw.
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