Suspense Comics #6

A brilliant but desperate plastic surgeon, Dr. Burton Millburn, begins altering criminals' appearances to help them evade the law—until his license is revoked and his nurse, Carole Nelson, agrees to marry him on one condition: that he go straight. When Burt perfects a new technique to change fingerprints and returns to his criminal ways, Carole abandons him, only to find herself at his mercy years later when their paths collide in a dark twist of fate. Science, obsession, and vengeance collide as Carole discovers her own skills as a surgeon can become a weapon against the man who destroyed her.

When Sir Derek is plagued by nightmares of a vengeful Black Cheetah—a beast he hunted and killed in the Central American jungle—The Grey Mask and his partner The Dove spring into action to uncover whether the explorer's fears are mere superstition or something far more sinister. As a lithe black killer stalks the rooftops of the city, the masked duo must confront a creature that seems determined to make good on an old witch doctor's curse.

When Clyde Tremont's proposal is rejected by Janet Stone, he seizes a chance to prove himself by accepting a post at a remote British medical outpost in Tanganyika—only to discover that Blake Lawrence, Janet's fiancé, is already stationed there. As the tropical rains arrive and the isolation sets in, both men find themselves consumed by obsessive thoughts of Janet, and the tension between them reaches a breaking point when she announces her intention to visit the outpost and choose between them once and for all. With the incessant downpour seeming to amplify their darker impulses, the jungle becomes a pressure cooker for jealousy, betrayal, and mounting madness.

When a wealthy recluse named Harvey Smith learns that Elias Green—the man he sent to prison years ago—has been freed, panic consumes him; he devises a desperate scheme to cheat fate by hiring a criminal drifter who bears an uncanny resemblance to him to assume his identity. But when the fugitive discovers the luxuries and power that come with Harvey Smith's life, greed threatens to unravel the entire plan, and the two men's identities begin to blur in ways neither anticipated. This 1944 tale explores the dark irony of trying to escape your own doom when your greatest enemy might be yourself.

When Murray White's wife is found dead in their garage from a gunshot wound, police launch a routine investigation into what appears to be a tragic suicide—but nothing about the scene quite adds up. Mr. Nobody unravels the mystery in a clever twist that only becomes clear when you hold the final panel up to a mirror.