Top Adventure Comics #2

The Black Dwarf and his reformed crew must investigate a string of deaths plaguing the underworld—criminals are being systematically eliminated, and the police have written them off as suicides. When Nitro escorts the frightened Sniffer to safety, both are targeted by an assassin, setting the Black Dwarf on the trail of a sinister conspiracy that reaches into the city's fencing operations. This 1958 adventure peels back the layers of a brutal setup designed to silence the criminal underworld.

Rex Tyler, a young rover of the Canadian Rockies devoted to hunting outlaws after they claimed his parents' lives, discovers a beautiful dark-haired girl unconscious in a wrecked automobile on a treacherous mountain road. When Rex rescues her and brings her to safety, he and his companion Pete uncover a sinister plot involving hired gunmen—and a mysterious sniper whose bullets seem aimed at Rex himself. As Tyler pieces together clues from a filed spur rowel, he finds himself caught between protecting the girl, stopping the thugs, and discovering who's pulling the strings from the shadows.