Police Comics #19
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Forest of Fear," Plas—newly assigned as a G-Man—ventures into the remote Hadley Lumber Company, where workers are dying under mysterious circumstances. What begins as a routine investigation unravels into a chilling encounter with a boneyard of sentient, killer trees, the twisted creation of a mad scientist who fused animal and plant life. Written and illustrated by Jack Cole, this 1943 Quality Comics standout blends pulp mystery with early sci-fi horror, all rendered in the creator’s distinctive, dynamic style. The cover, also by Jack Cole, captures the eerie tension of the forest with stark, expressive lines.
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Plas's first assignment as a G-Man takes him north to the Hadley Lumber Company, which was for sale......but whose lumbermen were turning up dead left and right. Further investigation revealed a boneyard in the forest which was protected by killer trees! The trees were the creation of a mad scientist who'd successfully engineered animals to be plants, and vice versa. Thinking he would die in an ensuing forest fire, Plas revealed his secret identity to the scientist's henchmen, who he later saved and allowed to go free if they would keep his secret.
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