Here's another look at some more of my awesome Birthday Books, check 'em out folks 😀
Strange Suspense Stories #9
Grade - VG
Cover - Jim Aparo
Story - Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, Fred Himes, and Mo Marcus
Story - Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, Fred Himes, and Mo Marcus
Art - ?
Ammortu's Moon
Neville Smyth is an explorer in Central Africa, when his guide Kajal is fatally wounded by a buffalo a local medicine man called Ammortu manages to save his life much to Neville's shock. His assisstant Helen Bliss comments on the strangeness of the green hued moon that night, Neville ponders that the moon shouldn't be like that at all at this time of the month. Ammortu claims that the moon healed Kajal and ot appears to have dissapeared after the healing ritual. Kajal is changed after the healing and seems to be in a hypnotic state under Ammortu's influenece He later saves the life of a rich chief and it seems that he takes all the riches of those that he cures. Neville and Helen confront Ammortu and he threatens and sets his controlled minions onto them. They spy on him later and discover that the strange green moon is actually an alien space craft, the plan is that Ammortu will use his powers to heal the leaders of the World some day and will control them to the aliens advantage. Neville makes Ammortu a gift of 'Green Fire' a 100 pound lump of pure uranium, it's green hue matches the 'moon' so he travels up to the ship with it as a gift to his alien masters and the modern machinery around it somehow causes it to explode!! The thralls of Ammortu are freed from his influence with the witch doctor's death.
There is a 1 page text story next "The Ghost of Gonzales Garcia"
A House Needs a Friend
Fred Corby a real estate agent is showing the Sims around an old house, "a house where no living people should ever live again! That is what the neighbours say..." The unwelcoming spirit of Fothergill Tate, he cursed the house it seems. During his life Tate ruined a man's life and then killed him in a duel, he fixed his oppenents pistol so it was loaded but had no firing pin, the sabotaged pistol from that fateful day graces the mantelpiece. Spooked by a flying vase they leave but Mrs Sims has dropped an earring inside she returns for it seemingly under the spell of Fothergill's spirit, he wants her to live in the house with him forevermore. Mr Sims comes to her rescue and the spirit tussles with him, Mrs Sims points the tampered gun at Fothergill and by some miracle it fires at him and he drops to the floor and fades away. Mrs Sims ponders "I did a funny, didn't I Walt? I shot a man who wasn't there with a gun that couldn't work!" They decide to buy the now ghost free house and in the last panel we see that although Tate's spirit has been banished he hasn't gone far as he stands by a tree in the garden staring at the house.
Behold Beauty
This last one I won't go into as I used it as one of my 13 Nights of Halloween series of videos recently, so you can just watch that here for the full story.
All I can say is Divina was no lady!!
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #70
Grade - ?
A Day in the Life
I guess Nick survived that mission in France from the last comic as here he is now heading up Shield. The question is though will he survive this day in his life? After 2 weeks of observation inside the psycho-projector he is sent home by Dr Kraus his examiner, Fury has no memory of his testing and feels like he's had a hard night partying. Agent 72 of Hydra has been tasked to kill him within 24 hours and is trying his darndest to complete his task or risk his superiors deadly wrath. He puts gas in Fury's shower and a guillotine in his cupboard both of which traps are narrowly avoided. He has to take out 2 agents on his way out of his building and then narrowly avoids electrocution from a rigged shaver socket on his flying car on the way up to the Shield helicarrier. He has to parachute onto the heli-carrier after his car malfunctions! Once on board he has a meeting with the Gaffer a tech guy who shows him a new flying bicycle, then goes to his office for some shut eye. He has some interaction with an Agent Huff, his secretary, who is ga-ga for him (this is her 1st and only appearance in the comic though). We see that Nick's own agents are spying on him as part of his psycho-projector observation, Kraus is convinced he is a double agent!! In previous issues there was a run in with a Super-Patriot and the death of a Shield agent that he says has him suspicious but it turns out that he himself is actually Hydra agent 72. Dum Dum Duggan has him sussed though, he breaks cover gassing Duggan then goes to assassinate Fury. He has a bead on him when Agent Huff disturbs him giving Nick the chance to get the drop on him. Other Shield agents come to try and apprehend Kraus/72 but he jet packs away. Nick hugs Huff to thank her for her efforts but is still concerned thinking to himself as to why the Super-Patriot looked so much like him when he was unmasked!!
Next Ish: The Assassination of Nick Fury!
Ammortu's Moon
Neville Smyth is an explorer in Central Africa, when his guide Kajal is fatally wounded by a buffalo a local medicine man called Ammortu manages to save his life much to Neville's shock. His assisstant Helen Bliss comments on the strangeness of the green hued moon that night, Neville ponders that the moon shouldn't be like that at all at this time of the month. Ammortu claims that the moon healed Kajal and ot appears to have dissapeared after the healing ritual. Kajal is changed after the healing and seems to be in a hypnotic state under Ammortu's influenece He later saves the life of a rich chief and it seems that he takes all the riches of those that he cures. Neville and Helen confront Ammortu and he threatens and sets his controlled minions onto them. They spy on him later and discover that the strange green moon is actually an alien space craft, the plan is that Ammortu will use his powers to heal the leaders of the World some day and will control them to the aliens advantage. Neville makes Ammortu a gift of 'Green Fire' a 100 pound lump of pure uranium, it's green hue matches the 'moon' so he travels up to the ship with it as a gift to his alien masters and the modern machinery around it somehow causes it to explode!! The thralls of Ammortu are freed from his influence with the witch doctor's death.
There is a 1 page text story next "The Ghost of Gonzales Garcia"
A House Needs a Friend
Fred Corby a real estate agent is showing the Sims around an old house, "a house where no living people should ever live again! That is what the neighbours say..." The unwelcoming spirit of Fothergill Tate, he cursed the house it seems. During his life Tate ruined a man's life and then killed him in a duel, he fixed his oppenents pistol so it was loaded but had no firing pin, the sabotaged pistol from that fateful day graces the mantelpiece. Spooked by a flying vase they leave but Mrs Sims has dropped an earring inside she returns for it seemingly under the spell of Fothergill's spirit, he wants her to live in the house with him forevermore. Mr Sims comes to her rescue and the spirit tussles with him, Mrs Sims points the tampered gun at Fothergill and by some miracle it fires at him and he drops to the floor and fades away. Mrs Sims ponders "I did a funny, didn't I Walt? I shot a man who wasn't there with a gun that couldn't work!" They decide to buy the now ghost free house and in the last panel we see that although Tate's spirit has been banished he hasn't gone far as he stands by a tree in the garden staring at the house.
Behold Beauty
This last one I won't go into as I used it as one of my 13 Nights of Halloween series of videos recently, so you can just watch that here for the full story.
All I can say is Divina was no lady!!
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #70
Cover - John Severin
Story - Gary Friedrich
Story - Gary Friedrich
Art - Dick Ayers/John Severin
The Missouri Marauders!
The Howling Commandos meet up with a bunch of guys with a similar temperment and grit for fighting Nazis, the Missouri Marauders. This is their 1st appearance and I think only appearance almost with the story completed in #71. The Marauders were National Guardsmen who had recieved the best Commando training and were to link up with the yowling yahoos for their 1st combat mission. Fury is not happy to play nursemaid to a bunch of green hillbillies and the Marauders are a proud bunch of testosterone fueled tough guys. In a pub in London they get into a fight with some sailors, they go to hightail it out and bump into and get into a fight with Fury and Dum Dum Duggan on their way in! They have to stop fighting as they are due at base in an hour to get on a plane to drop into France. Once on the ground in enemy territory they are to blow a bridge up together, they are abrasive towards each other but soon begin to impress each other with their grit and determination as they rally against harsh odds in trying to complete their mission.
Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #14
The Missouri Marauders!
The Howling Commandos meet up with a bunch of guys with a similar temperment and grit for fighting Nazis, the Missouri Marauders. This is their 1st appearance and I think only appearance almost with the story completed in #71. The Marauders were National Guardsmen who had recieved the best Commando training and were to link up with the yowling yahoos for their 1st combat mission. Fury is not happy to play nursemaid to a bunch of green hillbillies and the Marauders are a proud bunch of testosterone fueled tough guys. In a pub in London they get into a fight with some sailors, they go to hightail it out and bump into and get into a fight with Fury and Dum Dum Duggan on their way in! They have to stop fighting as they are due at base in an hour to get on a plane to drop into France. Once on the ground in enemy territory they are to blow a bridge up together, they are abrasive towards each other but soon begin to impress each other with their grit and determination as they rally against harsh odds in trying to complete their mission.
Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #14
Grade - ?
Cover - Herb Trimpe/Sam Grainger
Story - Gary Friedrich
Story - Gary Friedrich
Art - Herb Trimpe/Sam Grainger
A Day in the Life
I guess Nick survived that mission in France from the last comic as here he is now heading up Shield. The question is though will he survive this day in his life? After 2 weeks of observation inside the psycho-projector he is sent home by Dr Kraus his examiner, Fury has no memory of his testing and feels like he's had a hard night partying. Agent 72 of Hydra has been tasked to kill him within 24 hours and is trying his darndest to complete his task or risk his superiors deadly wrath. He puts gas in Fury's shower and a guillotine in his cupboard both of which traps are narrowly avoided. He has to take out 2 agents on his way out of his building and then narrowly avoids electrocution from a rigged shaver socket on his flying car on the way up to the Shield helicarrier. He has to parachute onto the heli-carrier after his car malfunctions! Once on board he has a meeting with the Gaffer a tech guy who shows him a new flying bicycle, then goes to his office for some shut eye. He has some interaction with an Agent Huff, his secretary, who is ga-ga for him (this is her 1st and only appearance in the comic though). We see that Nick's own agents are spying on him as part of his psycho-projector observation, Kraus is convinced he is a double agent!! In previous issues there was a run in with a Super-Patriot and the death of a Shield agent that he says has him suspicious but it turns out that he himself is actually Hydra agent 72. Dum Dum Duggan has him sussed though, he breaks cover gassing Duggan then goes to assassinate Fury. He has a bead on him when Agent Huff disturbs him giving Nick the chance to get the drop on him. Other Shield agents come to try and apprehend Kraus/72 but he jet packs away. Nick hugs Huff to thank her for her efforts but is still concerned thinking to himself as to why the Super-Patriot looked so much like him when he was unmasked!!
Next Ish: The Assassination of Nick Fury!
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