Treasure Comics #5

When the legendary Paul Bunyan enrolls at Blanton University to play football, he discovers that his enormous strength is both a blessing and a curse on the gridiron. As he learns the game from Coach Connors and prepares for the crucial match against rival Barclay, Paul must figure out how to channel his raw power into actual teamwork—before the big game arrives.

Hassan, the Arabian Knight, must contend with two rival criminal gangs terrorizing ancient Bagdad—the Tiger Gang led by the cunning merchant Wad-el-Sydz, and Zeeto's desert-based Leopards, whose leader claims possession of dark magic. Using his wits and courage, Hassan infiltrates the underworld to expose the truth behind the city's kidnapping racket and ransom scheme. Watch as the knight navigates a deadly game where the criminals' own ambitions and secrets become their undoing.

At a West Indies port in the early last century, a smuggler captain agrees to transport a stranger and his supposedly cursed diamond to England for a share of the profits—but greed and murder set in motion a supernatural reckoning that the captain cannot escape. As the *Merrie Maide* cuts through dark waters, the captain's crime festers into madness, and the old man's curse proves far more real and relentless than any sailor's superstition. Desperation and spectral vengeance collide in a tale where ill-gotten treasure demands its terrible price.

Martin Laude becomes the unwilling subject of Professor Dhark's dangerous supernatural experiment—one designed to separate the soul's good and evil elements—but when the procedure goes catastrophically wrong, a transformed and murderous version of the young man is unleashed on the city. Doctor Styx, the mysterious master of magic, must intervene to stop the rampage and force the professor to abandon his unnatural research forever.

Marco Polo encounters a mysterious stranger pulled from the sea who reveals himself as one of the Fish People—an underwater civilization that breathes water and lives in Tidewater Castle beneath the Indian Ocean. When a fierce neighboring tribe called the Pindires launches a brutal attack on the Fish People's kingdom, Marco pledges his aid to King Kurrent and his son Prince Ebb, leading to an extraordinary underwater battle. This 1946 adventure captures the golden-age spirit of exploration and swashbuckling heroism as Polo navigates a world stranger and more wondrous than anything he'd imagined.