Star Comics #11

Old King Kole decides to check on a battleship he's ordered from the Shipping Board, only to discover the builders have a rather creative solution to cover their mistakes. When the newly launched ship takes a sudden and catastrophic plunge into the sea, chaos ensues—and an unfortunate Prince finds himself swept up in the confusion and mistaken for something far less royal.

When Terry Lane arrives at a remote rubber plantation under orders from its owner, he quickly discovers that the boss, Jed Tate, rules through brutality and theft—skimming the harvest and pocketing the profits. As Terry investigates the operation, he uncovers Tate's scheme and finds himself bound and facing the plantation boss's violent wrath. What follows is a reckoning between an unwelcome visitor and a man who's forgotten there's always someone tougher around the corner.

Robert Louis Stevenson, one of literature's greatest adventure writers, spent much of his own life battling the chronic illness that haunted him from childhood through his final years at just forty-four. Born in Edinburgh and raised largely bedridden, Stevenson drew inspiration from travels with his engineer father and later journeys across France, Scotland, and Germany—experiences that would fuel his writing and eventually lead him across an ocean and continent to reunite with a woman he'd fallen in love with in France. This biographical account traces how a sickly boy's wanderlust and imagination shaped one of the era's most beloved storytellers, even as he searched the world for relief from his failing health.

Two ivory traders, Nelson and Harvey, strike a deal with a local man named Nazu for a valuable shipment of tusks from the jungle, planning to float them downriver on a flatboat to meet a steamer. When Nazu, angered at being cut out of the profits, sabotages the barge to send it toward the falls, Nelson must use dynamite in a desperate bid to ground the cargo before it's lost—then face off against Nazu's attack as the steamer arrives to make their escape.