Thrilling Comics #68

Alice McGregor ventures into the Amazon jungle to rescue her fiancé Tom Mason, only to find him imprisoned by the ruthless Senor Piranha. With help from the mysterious Toltec and the fierce Waiwai, she must outwit the villain before it’s too late.

When Kathy's family gives her a camera to keep her out of their hair, the enthusiastic teenager decides photography is her calling—and chaos naturally follows. What starts as innocent lessons in the park quickly spirals into increasingly wild encounters, all captured on film, and when her candid shots mysteriously end up in the newspapers, everyone from her father to the Women's Club discovers exactly what Kathy's been up to. It's a delightful romp about a girl who turns a simple hobby into an adventure, and learns that sometimes the best outcomes come from the most unexpected places.

Louie Lazybones gets drawn into a tomato-growing contest against the Tuzzlewits when a mysterious stranger offers his magical growing juice to help settle their feud—but when the juice falls into the wrong hands, the plant spirals wildly out of control, threatening to swallow Hogbite Holler whole. Desperate to save his home and family, Louie makes a daring descent into the cave of the legendary Root-Tootin' Runt to seek a solution in this wacky 1948 yarn from Thrilling Comics.

Monk Eastman was the ruthless kingpin of New York's underworld—a man too wedded to violence and easy money to ever truly escape his nature. When a prison stint and military service offer him a genuine chance at redemption, Eastman faces a choice between honest work and the criminal life he knows, with consequences that prove there's no walking away unscathed. This 1948 crime tale traces how a man's weakness for the quick score seals his fate.

When the District Attorney is mysteriously murdered after calling for the Phantom Detective, Frank Havens springs into action to uncover a deadly conspiracy involving a mysterious underworld kingpin. The trail leads the Phantom to a sinister scheme using electrified phone lines as instruments of murder, and he must navigate a web of small-time crooks and shadowy crime bosses to bring the mastermind to justice. With danger closing in at every turn, the Phantom goes undercover to infiltrate the criminal organization and expose the powerful figure behind the killings.