All in color for a dime? No way. Jose! Nor when you can get Bulletman, Warlock the White Wizard, The Jungle Twins, Cap't Venture, and The Red Gaucho all in one issue for a measly nickle! (Of course, the page count -- 36 pages -- is small for a comic of that time, but Nickle Comics came out every other Friday so you're basically spending a dime a month for amounts to a 72-page comic -- with a bit extra at the end of the year.
Anyway.
Jim Barr, who invented a serum that makes him the most powerful man on Earth -- Bulletman, modern Robin Hood of Crime -- is headed to Police Sergeant Kent's office to protest being told he must take a vacation when he learns that Tim Hanigan, a veteran cop, has been shot in the back.by a gang calling themselves the Blue Devils. To Jim, this looks like something that could be handled by his alter ego, so he quietly goes on vacation, intending to track the gang of killers. He heads to Eagle Valley, where hanigan had been murdered and finds a small town enveloped in fear. The Blue Devils are led by a mysterious hooded man called Lucifer. As Bulltetman, Jim allows himself to be captured by the Blue Devils before opening up a can whupass on them, rescuing the pretty editor of the local newpaper, and exposing the identity of the evil mastermind Lucifer. It's just all in a day's work for Bulletman.
Warlock's talking raven Hugin informs him that there is something wrong at Geyser National Park. He investigates and gets the attention of a local gang and their leader "Killer" Staley. While searching for a kidnapped girl, Wrlock is captured and left to die as a steamoing hot geyser is about to popur over him. Luckily (?) Warlock has his magic wand which is capped by a golden hand; the hand snuffs out the geyser and knocks out the ruffians. With the nhelp of Hugin asnd the golden hnd, Warlock manages to escape death several times and bring an end to Killer Staley's plot to kinap wealthy tourists. Through the entire adventure Warlock has not used his weird lamp of the gods. Perhaps next time. I notice that every character in this story is drawn with a distinctly narrow face, a la el Greco, but I doubt if the artist was actually el Greco.
Bill Dale has brought his long-lost twin Steve, who had become a Jungle King in Africa, back to New York with him. They are followed by the evil Sneed, who wants the valuable ruby the Steve possesses. Sneed releases a bunch of man-eating junsle cats from a circur in an attyempt to get the ruby, but Steve belows out a command using the ancient elephant call. The cirucs elephants come to the rescue. Sneed is jailed and Steve and his pygmy servant Dagoo decide to head back to Africa but their boat sinks in a tropical hurricane and they are rescued by Simlo Smith, a madman who fancies himself a Roman emperor. Bill and Steve rescue Dagoo from a giant man-eating plant only to be thrown into an arena where the defenseless trio have to fight four armed warriors. Escaping from the arean they are chased to a pool filled with hungray sharks. It's constantly out of the frying pan and into the fire for Bill, Steve, and Dagoo. Will they be able to survive in the next episode?
Cap't Venture and the Planet Princess Zyra of Saturn go flitting aound from planet to planet "Exploring the mysterious deoths of the universe." They land on the planet of Camur and encountered a recently escaped slave of the Valhoes. (In this universe, everybody speaks English.) They then run across a saddled pterosaurus being ridden by one of the dreaded Valhoes. the trio are captured and Venture and the Camurian are sent to the mines, while the evil Valho takes a fancy to the pretty Zyra. Can this mean a fate worse than death for the foxy Zyra? Not so, because Venture leads the Camurians in a revolt and frees the planet. As with Bulletman *above) this was just all in a day's work. *The pterosaur looks as if it came directly from the pen of Basil Wolvereton.)
A presidential costume ball is to be held in Santa Palos and the president of the South American country will use the ball to hand over a signed treaty to be delivered to the Americans. Anti-American agents get wind of this and are determined to act. In the meantime, President Francia has issued an invitation to the ball to the Red Gaucho, who is eager to attend as he will be handed the treaty to give to the American ambassador. Two Spanish-Americans, Edvardo and Delores, are also attending the ball. Edvasrdo decided to go costumed as the Red Gaucho. You can see where this is going. Edvardo is captured by the spies. Delores falls for the Red Gaucho, thinking him Edvardo. The Red Gaucho uses his whip to settle the hash of the spies and all turns out well on the peace front.
A pretty dencent bargain for a nickle.
Enjoy: And have a great New Year!
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