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Cover: Harry Sahle & Harry Sahle

Pep Comics #48

May 1944 · Archie · 0.10 USD
“The Curse of the Black Monkey”

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Cast · 19 characters

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cover pencils Harry Sahle
cover inks Harry Sahle

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The Jinx is a blind black monkey, surviving owner after owner managing to survive until it comes to Dusty, the Shield’s kid partner. The Shield discovers through an anthropologist friend that the monkey is an idol of sorts to the Thuggi cult of India and represents all evil and bad luck to all but the Thuggi. Higgins arranges for the monkey to be sent to Japan.

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