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Appearing in "Murder By Microphone"

Featured Characters:

  • Shadow Lady

Supporting Characters:

  • Hank Quillup

Villains:

  • Criminals (In dream sequence only)

Other Characters:

  • Mister Fabbersham (First Appearance)
  • Mister Dvorak (First Appearance)
  • Sophie Schotek von Schotkova (First Appearance)
  • Aloysius Prescott (First Appearance)
  • Feeble McDweeb (Death)
  • Tubbin's (Death)
  • Nubbin's

Locations:

Items:

  • Inviso-Ray

Vehicles:


Synopsis for "Murder By Microphone"

After taking control of the thieves' getaway car, Shadow Lady swerved into a ravine in order to avoid a truck. The car crashed and she attempted to pull a thief out from the car due to a gas leak. Shadow Lady woke up and realized that she fell asleep with the radio on.

At the WXKZ radio station, a comedian named Feeble McDweeb was killed by objects that fell from a closet. At a laboratory at the edge of town, Professor Aloysius Prescott was working on the Inviso-Ray with his daughter Veronica and assistant Hank. However, the results had disappointed the professor. Veronica and Hank proposed conducting an experiment at Mount Mallowmar, where Venus would be seen.

Shadow Lady overheard the comedy duo Tubbin's and Nubbin's on her radio, while reading a newspaper article about McDweeb's death. Suddenly, she learned that Tubbin's had died while laughing. Hank attempted to ask Shadow Lady out on a date, but she declared that visiting the radio station was more important.

At Station WXKZ, the owner Mister Fabbersham rejected an offer of singer Sophie Schotek von Schotkova being featured on his station. Mister Fabbersham entered his office, where Shadow Lady was waiting.

Appearing in "The Poachers Of The Elephant Graveyard!"

Featured Characters:

  • Zhantika

Supporting Characters:

  • None

Villains:

  • Unnamed prisoner
  • Grimely
  • Craddock

Other Characters:

  • Elephant

Locations:

  • Africa
    • Serengeti
      • Elephant graveyard

Items:

  • Tusks

Vehicles:

  • Poachers' jeep

Synopsis for "The Poachers Of The Elephant Graveyard!"

Zhantika attacked two poachers named Grimely and Craddock, who attempted to flee in their jeep. To catch up, she used an elephant for transportation.

The two poachers encountered a signpost that appeared to be a warning, but chose to ignore the warning. When Zhantika arrived at the signpost, she sent the elephant away, then used her mystic knife to see through the eyes of a leopard. Through the leopard's eyes, she saw the two poachers at an elephant graveyard about to unknowingly free the tomb's prisoner.

She rushed to try to stop them, but was unsuccessful, as Craddock moved the elephant tusks that kept the prisoner locked. The prisoner emerged and Zhantika was able to wound him with her dagger before returning the tusks to their original place to reseal the prisoner.

Afterwards, Zhantika drove off in the poachers' jeep with them as her prisoners.

Appearing in "Eye Of The Gorgon"

Featured Characters:

  • Venus

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed man
  • Thomas
  • Joan (possessed by Medusa)

Villains:

  • Medusa
  • Chimera

Other Characters:

  • Roger

Locations:

  • Museum
  • Homeland of the Gods

Items:

  • Gorgon's Eye
  • Sacred berries of the juniper

Vehicles:

  • Pegasus

Synopsis for "Eye Of The Gorgon"

At a museum, a woman named Joan became possessed by Medusa after putting on the Gorgon's Eye. The police summoned Venus and briefed her on the situation.

When Venus and her two companions arrived, they saw the security guards turned into statues and she deduced that it was the work of the Gorgon's Eye. The three split up and Medusa turned her companion Thomas into stone. When Venus encountered Medusa, her second companion grabbed the latter from behind and took the Gorgon's Eye.

In order to reverse the Gorgon's Spell, Venus traveled to the Homeland of the Gods, where she fought the chimera and acquired the sacred berries of the juniper. She returned to the museum, where she learned that she had enough berries for all but one. Joan insisted that Venus give the last berry to Thomas, rather than her partner Roger. Despite Thomas receiving the last berry, Roger was freed by a teardrop from Joan.

Appearing in "Dimensioneer"

Featured Characters:

  • Dimensioneer

Villains:

  • Giant ants

Synopsis for "Dimensioneer"

Preview for the upcoming comic of the Dimensioneer, featuring him fighting giant ants.

Trivia

  • At the end of the second story, Zhantika is said to appear in every issue of Big Adventure Comics.
  • On page 33, there is an advertisement for the Knight Watchman story Deductive Comics #30/"Graveyard Shift: Part One" dated for August, 1939.
  • In the letters page on page 29, the third member of the National Guardians in issue #14 is revealed to be Vita-Man.

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