Suspense Comics #1

Former big-game hunter Martin Corliss has traded the jungle for the detective business as "the Tracker," and when a local broker is shot dead in the streets of Newton, he's called in to investigate. The Mayor and Police Chief are quick to suspect a shooting gallery operator, but the Tracker's instincts lead him to uncover a far more sinister scheme involving a hastily constructed building and a hollow cornerstone with darker purposes. As he pieces together the truth, he'll need every ounce of his tracking skills to stop a conspiracy that goes straight to the top of the town.

When crime boss Tony Alberni contracts a murder for one hundred thousand dollars, the job gets passed down a chain of increasingly desperate criminals—each taking a cut, each reassigning the work to someone lower down the ladder. But on the night a shadowy killer slips into Sherman Barnaby's home, fate has a cruel irony waiting: the whole scheme unravels in ways none of them could have predicted.

When Uncle Jerome Harper arrives at his family's Southern home claiming to practice voodoo, his sinister intentions toward his niece Vivian quickly become apparent—he plans to use hypnotic drums and dark rituals to bend her to his will. Sheriff and amateur detective Caleb Stuart senses trouble brewing and arrives at the Harper manse just as Jerome's scheme reaches its violent climax in the magnolia grove. This 1943 crime tale weaves Southern Gothic atmosphere with the occult as good and evil collide under the moonlight.

The Sunset Kid's rodeo fame follows him to San Francisco's waterfront, where he's mistaken for an easy mark by human traffickers operating the freighter Congo Queen. Caught up in a scheme to shanghai workers, the cowboy must take control of the ship and its brutal captain before the vessel disappears into open water. With newfound command comes an unexpected challenge—seasickness proves to be as formidable an opponent as any criminal he faces on deck.

A series of poisonings has shaken the capital—prominent government officials dropping dead from a mysterious toxin delivered through perfectly aligned scratches on the hand. When reporter Gloria Gray is reluctantly assigned to crack the case alongside her brawny colleague Rufus Regan, a chance encounter with an elegant baroness and her striking black angora cat at the Hotel de Nice sets them on a perilous trail. As Gloria pieces together the scattered clues, she realizes the real weapon may be far more ingenious than anyone suspected.