Clyde Beatty Comics #1

Clyde Beatty escorts a shipload of captured African lions across the Atlantic aboard the S.S. African Wind, but the voyage becomes far more perilous when saboteurs plant explosives to destroy the vessel and its secret cargo of uranium. When fire breaks out and the lions escape their cages, Beatty must use his legendary animal-handling skills to recapture the beasts and clear the deck so the crew can fight the flames and save the ship.

When a disgruntled circus worker named Flynn is fired from Clyde Beatty's show for mistreating the animals, he hatches a sinister plot to use one of the big cats against the world-famous animal trainer. As danger lurks backstage and tensions mount under the big top, Beatty must face off against both a vengeful enemy and the unpredictable beast caught in the middle of their conflict.

In this high-flying circus tale, Corky's trained bear Bingo takes on his best pal Happy in a slapstick boxing act—until a saboteur's trick turns the fun fight into genuine peril when the two get stuck in molasses hidden on the mat. Corky and Sally must scramble to rescue Happy before Bingo's innocent punches cause real damage, all while uncovering who's been playing dirty tricks at the big top.

Clyde Beatty arrives in Malindi, Kenya, and reunites with an old friend, Ralph Thayer, who now runs a remote bush hospital—but the local witch doctor Waru, resentful of losing patients and fees, has incited the natives to attack and destroy it. With the hospital under siege and evacuation impossible, Beatty devises a clever scientific demonstration to prove his "magic" is stronger than Waru's, hoping to turn the tide before the situation becomes deadly.

When a filmmaker and his pilot force Clyde Beatty to guide them into the jungle for gorilla footage, what starts as a dangerous hostage situation spirals into a desperate battle for survival against the very creatures they came to film. Beatty must use every ounce of jungle savvy to keep his wife Betty and his friends alive while dealing with a man willing to kill to get his shots.

Clyde Beatty ventures into the African jungle in search of big cats for his circus, but discovers far more than he bargained for when he encounters a mysterious white man using trained animals—and drugged jungle beasts—to rule a hidden empire of slaves and violence. As Beatty and his companion Bill Forbes are drawn into the doctor's twisted games of survival, they must use their wits and animal knowledge to survive encounters with deadly predators and escape the jungle's darkest secret.