Yellowjacket Comics #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Adventure of the Hollywood Blackmailers," Yellowjacket uncovers a web of deception when the Golden Powder Horn of pirate Alcazar—believed to hold the key to a legendary treasure—comes up for auction. With slick confidence men and hidden motives swirling around the artifact, Yellowjacket must separate fact from fraud in a case that leads straight to the heart of Hollywood’s shadows. Art by Dick Briefer, cover by Ken Battefield.
Yellowjacket—screenwriter by day, crime fighter by night—arrives in Hollywood to find the studio caught in a blackmail scheme: someone's fabricated evidence of a historical ancestor's criminal past to extort half a million dollars from both the studio and the descendant. With sabotage spreading across the sound stages and danger mounting, Yellowjacket races to expose the real culprit behind the scam and clear an innocent name before the studio caves to the extortionists' demands.
In "The Adventure of the Golden Horn Murder," Yellowjacket races to uncover the truth behind a legendary pirate treasure when the Golden Powder Horn—said to reveal Alcazar’s hidden fortune—is set to be auctioned off by a slick confidence man. With the museum closing in, Yellowjacket must prove the artifact is a clever hoax before the real crime unfolds.
Diana the Huntress leaves the safety of Mount Olympus for America, only to find herself caught between a band of criminals and a soldier with a dangerous secret. When Barney's furlough ends and he rejoins his brother Joe at the train station, a robbery scheme spirals into tragedy—until a silver dollar and the huntress's intervention reveal that "brotherly love" runs deeper than crime and redemption.
A man consumed by hatred of an old companion's unsettling gaze decides to commit a terrible act, carefully orchestrating his crime over eight nights of mounting obsession. When the deed is done and officers arrive to investigate a neighbor's disturbance, he believes himself safe—until the weight of guilt manifests in a sound only he can hear, growing louder and more unbearable in the very presence of the law. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" brings psychological terror to vivid, haunting life in this 1945 Yellowjacket Comics adaptation.
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Reprinted in Mysterious Traveler Comics #1 (1948)
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