The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies #14

In "The Sleeping Giant," a young man discovers a colossal statue of Tuamotu, the giant god of the Itongo, hidden deep in the jungle—its floor littered with diamonds. When a desperate prospector named Joe Gagnon tries to claim the treasure, he stumbles upon Idaho, a towering circus performer whose size is both his curse and his secret. Using Idaho’s stature to impersonate the god, Gagnon manipulates the Itongo into raiding their neighbors, but the Phantom intervenes, unmasking the deception. The story unfolds with the weight of myth and the quiet truth of vulnerability, as size and strength are tested in ways no one expected.