Johnny Dynamite was a tough-as-nails comic book private eye, created by Ken Fitch and Pete Morisi and debuting in Comic Media's Dynamite #3 (September 1953); he appeared in seven further issues before being picked up by Charleton Comics and retitled Johnny Dynamite, beginning with issue #10, and lasting only three issues. He also appeared (somewhat beefier) in three issues of Charleton's Foreign Intrigues (#13-15). (All relevant issues of Dynamite and Johnny Dynamite, as well as two of the three Foreign Intrigues issues are available at Comic Book Plus.)
In 1987 Max Allan Collins acquired the character from Charleton, reprinting stories in Ms. Tree. Collins and Terry Beatty gave the character a new lease on life with a four-issue limited series from Dark Horse Comics.
In issue #10, Frank Cole, Johnny's buddy from the war days, managed to survive the pest holes of the Pacific and the torture camps of the Germans only to be shot down at home by a man with a limp who had been Hitler's personal envoy of death during the war. Of course Johnny vows vengeance in the aptly titled story "Vengeance Is Mine!"
"The King of Blackmail" appears to be a generic mystery stories that was adapted to a Johnny /dynamite tale by adding a couple of splash pages and making Johnny the narrator for the story. Ho-hum.
There's also three one-page generic stories and a two-page typeset story (have to keep the postal authorities happy, after all).
Read it for the atmospheric, convoluted first story and see close the the edge of the Comics Code Morini pushed the envelope
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