Brenda Starr Comics #9

When Brenda impulsively bids on a pair of ornate bookends at a Chinese antique auction, she has no idea that a desperate stranger will stop at nothing to get them back—or that one of them conceals a fortune worth killing for. As mysterious threats escalate from smooth-talking persuasion to armed intrusion, Brenda teams up with an unlikely ally to uncover the secret hidden within the statues and stay ahead of a man with blood already on his hands.

When aviation editor Lucky Larson refuses to risk his neck flying into a brutal Arctic storm to cover a story about six stranded fliers, Brenda Starr decides to commandeer his plane and go anyway—and Lucky, unwilling to let his new girlfriend face the danger alone, finds himself crash-landing on the ice-cap alongside her. Marooned in brutal cold with dwindling supplies and a hungry polar bear prowling nearby, Brenda and Lucky must survive long enough to find the crashed Army pilots and get everyone out alive.

When Stanley—a celebrated foreign correspondent for the New York Herald—receives his most audacious assignment from editor James Gordon Bennett, he's tasked with finding the world-famous missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who vanished into the African interior while searching for the source of the Nile. Armed with little more than determination and his guide Asmani, Stanley sets out across a brutal landscape of swamps, hostile tribes, and wild animals to track down the missing explorer. It's a grueling 900-mile journey through unforgiving terrain and dangerous encounters, but each clue brings him closer to a man the world has given up for lost.

When newspaper reporter Brenda Starr investigates a diamond heist disguised as an armored car robbery, her detective work uncovers a lead that puts her—and her photographer Snapper—directly in the crosshairs of a dangerous criminal operation. Trapped in a swank mansion with criminals closing in, Brenda must use her wits and nerve to stay alive long enough for the truth to catch up with the culprits. It's a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where one wrong move could be her last.