The Shadow #135

In "The Jungle of Fear," Jimmy Gray, tasked with scouting emergency landing strips for the Air Force, stumbles upon a plantation where Nola Rutherford is being driven out by a group of hostile African natives. When the locals claim a local god demands her exile, Jimmy—under the guise of The Shadow—steps in to uncover the truth behind the superstition. With Max Ford and an Air Force officer watching from the sidelines, The Shadow must unravel a mystery that blurs the line between myth and manipulation.

When building inspector Simon Mason narrowly escapes a sabotaged underground train, he confides in The Shadow—Jimmy Gray—that he was on his way to expose contractor Brandon Blair’s shoddy work on a new skyscraper. Before he can act, Mason is murdered, and The Shadow must unravel a web of corruption that reaches deep into the city’s construction scene. With a pair of thugs and a suspicious police inspector in tow, The Shadow closes in on Blair’s operation, but the truth behind the scheme runs deeper than concrete and steel.