Startling Comics #52

In "The Slaves of Babylon!" from Startling Comics #52, Tygra and Terry stumble upon the dying brother of the Kokuri Chief, who accuses them of abducting his bride and vanishing warriors. As tensions rise, Tygra uncovers a hidden underground complex where Assyrian soldiers enslave the missing Kokuri, forcing them to toil in darkness.

Lance Lewis races across the cosmos to Astra after the mad scientist Anton Gregor kidnaps his girl and seizes control of the planet's air purifiers, holding an entire civilization hostage to his tyrannical ambitions. When Lance finally lands on the war-torn world, he must rally the peaceful Astrans and teach them to fight back against Gregor's reign of terror. Written and illustrated by the creative team at Startling Comics, "The Tyrant of Mulda" delivers high-stakes interplanetary adventure with stakes that span two worlds.

Doctor Henry Gordon once took an oath to heal, but greed pulled him into the criminal underworld—performing black-market surgery and extorting gangsters for ever-larger paydays. When a botched facial reconstruction job turns his underworld clientele against him, Gordon finds himself trapped between the very criminals he's been exploiting and the law closing in. A gritty cautionary tale about how stepping into crime, one compromise at a time, leads inexorably downward.

Thirteen-year-old Billy Hepler runs his own seed company in Durham, New Hampshire, turning homegrown New England produce into a thriving mail-order business that's already generating hundreds in yearly profit. As his operation expands—shipping seeds across the country and even raising rabbits for sale—Billy learns the practical lessons of entrepreneurship, from managing inventory to navigating his first income tax return.

In seventeenth-century waters where piracy runs wild, the fearless corsair known as the Sea Eagle and Sir Ronald Blake work to recover a legendary treasure—the Queen Diamond—buried years ago on Cariscou Island. But the notorious Captain Hook, miraculously pulled from the sea after his ship sank, has his own plans to claim the prize, and a mysterious ally has given him reason to strike. When the Sea Eagle and his crew unearth the fabled jewels under cover of fog, they find themselves facing a ruthless rival whose hook and cutlass are every bit as deadly as the Eagle's blade.