John Wayne Adventure Comics #27

John Wayne joins a desperate Himalayan rescue mission on Dali Lhari, a 27,000-foot peak that's claimed nineteen lives, when climber Philip Sedgewick enlists him to help locate his stranded expedition team. As Wayne and Major Radji push higher through brutal conditions and mounting sabotage, they discover a rival climber has been secretly working against the expedition—and now must decide whether to press on or turn back as a vicious storm closes in. With tensions mounting and time running out at altitude, Wayne faces his greatest test yet: holding his team together long enough to learn the fates of those trapped above.

In the mountains near Tasco, a man arrives to guide two prospectors, Slade and Horn, to a gold mine sold to them by the old miner Yuckla Bill—unaware that these two killers murdered Bill using a trained rattlesnake tied with a rawhide thong. When the narrator discovers their deadly secret, he turns the tables with cunning and nerve, using the very weapon they've wielded to extract a confession and justice from the mountains' harshest judge: time, dew, and a grandfather rattler's striking range.

A down-on-his-luck drifter in Manila takes a lucrative but suspicious courier job from a mysterious businessman, delivering a sealed packet to Saigon—only to find himself caught between a French intelligence officer, a black-market arms dealer, and a web of Cold War intrigue that implicates him in far more than a simple errand. When the truth about the operation threatens soldiers on the front lines, the American must decide whether to disappear with his payment or risk everything to expose the scheme.

A soldier finally gets his pass for a date with a beautiful blonde, only to discover his romantic plans take an unexpected turn when she has other ideas for how they'll spend the day. What starts as an escape from mandatory military duties becomes its own kind of endurance test in this 1954 humor tale from John Wayne Adventure Comics.