Champion Comics #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Deadliest Basketball Game," Prof. Stone shares a curious theory about Captain Vetasco’s lost dodo birds from 1570, believed to have survived on a remote Galapagos island. Bill sets off in the Polaris, navigating the Panama Canal with the mission to find and capture a living dodo. Ray Willner handles both pencils and inks for the story, while Adolphe Barreaux delivers the cover art for this 1940 Champion Comics issue, priced at 10 cents.
Duke O'Dowd, a spirited young American, joins the Foreign Legion and quickly earns both friendship and rivalry when he clashes with the bully Karl von Hond. When von Hond hatches a scheme to frame O'Dowd and escape with stolen military secrets, the quick-thinking legionnaire finds himself imprisoned in the cellars of Gordovo—but resourcefulness and a keen ear for trouble are on his side. A tale of betrayal, escape, and loyalty set against the exotic backdrop of the Foreign Legion.
In "Dodo Island," Prof. Stone recounts a 1570 tale of Captain Vetasco’s shipwrecked dodo birds on a remote Galapagos isle, sparking Bill’s quest to find a living specimen. Sailing the Polaris through the Panama Canal, Bill sets out to prove the legend—before the island’s secrets vanish forever.
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