Manhunt #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Manhunt #2 (1947) This issue contains multiple crime and mystery stories, with the lead story "Manhunt!" involving a police investigation into the murder of Walter Wavery. The narrative follows Inspector Kirk as he pursues clues at an exclusive cosmetic shop and a séance room, tracking down a suspect whose perfume places him at the crime scene. A separate storyline involves the search for scientist Ernst Kruver, described as the only expert capable of developing atomic bomb technology, who has been kidnapped by a foreign country—with references to a seaside hotel and attempts to locate and rescue him before enemy agents can exploit his knowledge.
Jim Fallon of the F.B.I. goes undercover as a truck driver to stop a band of highway hijackers targeting long-distance freight shipments, but discovers the real threat comes from within. With the help of stage makeup and nerves of steel, Fallon must expose the traitor before the robbers strike again—and before they realize his true identity.
Inspector Ronald Kirk of Scotland Yard faces an impossible locked-room mystery when Walter Wavery is stabbed to death during a séance—but every participant claims their hands never broke contact. As Kirk and his assistant Anne investigate the lipstick and dagger left at the scene, suspects emerge, including the protective Rick Farr and the mysterious Babs Vaughn, forcing the inspector to separate truth from séance trickery. With clues hidden in cosmetics and perfume, Kirk devises a daring plan to unmask the killer and close the case.
A mysterious black box drifts through the solar system and lands on Mars, where it begins enslaving the planet's inhabitants—including Viceroy Farragut—through hypnotic control. When Space Ace and his young companion Jak Tal investigate, they discover the sinister being can't affect those wearing silver helmets, and they team up with Myrrl, a visitor from a distant planet who's chasing the same threat. As the box-being grows confident in its conquest, Space Ace must race against time to uncover the creature's weakness before it spreads its dominion across the entire solar system.
Undercover Girl Starr Flagg is dispatched to Central America to guard atomic scientist Ernst Kruver—but when she meets him, she quickly realizes the man before her is an imposter planted by foreign agents. After a harrowing escape from those who'd planned to silence her, Flagg discovers the real Kruver is being held captive in a jungle laboratory, forced to develop atomic bombs for a hostile power. With the help of Bryan Flobbly, a reformed drifter with a conscience, she races against time to rescue the scientist before devastating weapons fall into enemy hands.
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Reprinted in Space Ace #5 [A-1 No. 61] (1952), Undercover Girl #7 [A-1 #118] (1954), Space Ace #1 (1955), Jet Black and Jak Tal: The Complete Space Ace #[nn] (2014), A-1 Comics: A Retrospective #142 (2015), Undercover Girl: The Complete Adventures of Starr Flagg #[nn] (2015), Lurid Little Nightmare Makers #7 - Black & White (2016), Lurid Little Nightmare Makers #7 - Color (2016)
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