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HYDE, FOR NO ONE AS EVIL, HORRIBLE AND GRUESOME AS MR. HYDE COULD BE QUITE HUMAN. JHE MAN WHO GAVE HIM LIFE WAS DR. JEKYLL, A HIGHLY RESPECTED SCIENTIST WITH MANY FRICLASSIC COMICS ‘ONE NIGHT DR. JEKYLL ATTENDS A LARGE COSTUME PARTY. t}He must have made missed a dance, Dr. Lanyon.|| _@ discovery. He's "e form tonight.j always elated atter L something of importance. B i've clways been ‘aware of ypu. | love you, Lorraine. Would you marry me? Have 1a chance? Dance? . . . You can't refuse a toreador .. . | will win every prize buil-ring fer yo DR. JEKYLL HAS MADE A’ DISCOVERY . . . Your eyes are blue, Wl of course! H’stoken I] Lorraine. Very blue. Have dh they always been that’ Tl drop in at Jekyll’s laboratory the first thing in the morning and seeOR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE~ Congratulations! She's a fine girl I'm disappointed that you haven't Ihave . . . Lorraine Enfield ..: We're to be merried. You'll be invited to our engagement porty. THE NEXT MORNING .. Nothing? . . ..1 could hav: sworn you found something new. Have you ever felt. like BS Tes completely casting off the |=} ti eae pone cloak of a scientist? i potent forget the charactor we have alter @ seas, ae all our lives. ofvhard work, uppose . . « pe suppose those two! sides could be separated! [suppose a'drug could be it’s something I've been found that would do 4 thinking about for weeks fwrork? ‘ + for months-..» « + a.« Look out there!CLASSIC COMIC: Bh, really like t01! No drug on earth could, thief ot heort. There is 4 * * 11 separate her from that ‘good in every bad one | sell... Have you gone 1+. bad in\every good ja ? person. Now look out : you... Well, J! be on my way. a 8 DI VisDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE MORE DAYS PASS... DR. JEKYLL CONTINUES HIS SECRET k @ found friend! 1 christen you Mr: Hyde .. . Edward A KNOCK ON THE DOOR RECALLS HIMPoy my respects jf before the party yht. fy Why did you do thet? =OR. JEKYLL AND MR. UANYON 18 SOON ON HIS WAY .. UNTIL LOOKING EVENING DRAWS NEAR AND JEKYtL IN THE MIRROR REMINDS HIM li WITHOUT ANOTHER THOUGHT TO HIS UGLY COUNTERPART, EDWARD HYDE OF THAT MOCKING, GRUESOME VISAGE ... HYDE.? Coward! 1 am your other self. Are you afraid of me?” ee = ° 0 4 a a q a o 8 8 g 3 2 e 8 eg z 2 i le is = FeMR. HYDE BOT THe HME THE CONSCIENCE OF JEKYLL DOES NOT RESPOND. HYDE DOMINATES: + 2) AND’ HYDE HAS ONLY ONE DESIRE... FLIGHT.| THE BACK DOOR OF THE le Z That man! He WM LABORATORY SERVES HIM. is Ge i frightens me! Be He looks like a) Ihave power... power fo repel Jase lat Hal | will use i__.DR. JEKYLL_AND MR. HYDE That's my daughter.around your neck for killing thet chiWhere is Henry? Everyone's here ai waiting . .. What could) have happened to hi The bird wos his pet... he wouldn't have Killed it . you say you teard « eras! Yes, sirl | knocked but noVil ‘one answered . . . and ‘when | broke into the room, the back-door was, DR. JEKYLL AND, MR. HYDE ~ Dr. Lanyon! I'm so glad you've come . . + Something terrible must have ‘appened elligente, bis to my master! home and find . . Why are you here? [it looks as though thieves broke in. Come on. We're going to the police!| -CLASSIC COMICS WHILE BACK. AY HEADQUARTER: DEFENSE FOR HIMSELF It was an acide Edward Hyde, you ore didn’t notice the child charged with murdor. ey That will be @ pretty || excuse to use a your { Seriously Broken rib . recover « The child's father may prefer it that way. [That we shall see . }summon the father to\court. [1 will put the offer to him. jjured. . but she will _p Your honor, if the a 4 charges against me. are’ st dropped, Ill pay all tho hospital bills: = “The hospital's going to cost me plent Maybe it was an accident. For two hundred ifty pounds, I'd call the matter clos |" THE ONLY MONEY HE POSSESSES 15 IN. | THE NAME OF HENRY JEKYLL 7 §DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE __ E lakeson! Eustace! - Go along with 1 never. 5 anyone uglie He looks like murderer!< GLASSIC COMICS {live in a corner house in Soho {comet 4 jat_must be one of HOW ENRAGED THE POLICE WOULD BE IF THEY BUT KNEW THAT THE WOMAN WHO ADMITTED HYDE IS A STRANGER TO HIM! just came to towneMy |this way, si - b. fuiggage is still ct the What de you want, comin’ in this time of station. night?... . VII call the policotDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE Thot’s fine . . . If the check’s all right . . . ‘Ow could you have two hundred fifty pounds... in @ house like that? You're npt getting ews rid yeh this i Jekyll! He's @ famous ] what would you be doing scientist... a big with ‘is check? There's something funny «joing on. Why should. that villain got so much money from a fi Thi F 4 like Dr. Jekyll? . . . This calls for an investig. without @ doubt. You may. g have the money.‘MORE POLICE GO TO THE HOME OF JEKYLL, WHO 15 STILL REPORTED MISSING p+. BUT THIS TIME The master is home, safe and sound. Was one of the thieves an J Edward Hyde? . evillooking man, with a 4 No, certainly no face like on animal? I know him. He's on Edward Hyde, by name honorable man. Tyouch for Hyde never trouble you again « Never again. CLASSIC COMICS | What happened, sir? NET ares ion my way to thy fianceé’s last night when thieves robbed me, beat me up, and left me ‘| on the side of the road. . . i was frankly too doxed to refurn home until this morning. In fact, he once befriended me- I owe him a debt of gratitude +. What has brought up ion of him? BUT AS JEKYLL SPEAKS THESE WORDS, HE FEARS | THAT HE MAY AGAIN BECOME OBSESSED BY EDWARD HYDE, ALL DAY THAT FEAR TORTURES HIM . . . EVERYWHERE HE GOES. GDR. JEKYLL AND_MR. HYDE + TBAT EVENING JEKYI SURPRISE VISIT Am I safe... from Edward Hyde? geal] Wl You say you wi 2 Ae change your will? rs i 4 UL In the event of my déath or sudden disappearance, | bequeath all my Possessions to my friend and “benefactor « T know 1 can tru: you, Utterson Naturally your busin with me will be held strictest confidence. Good evening, Dr. Jekyll.CLASSIC COMICS JN THE MORNING JEKYLL ‘AWAKES, FEELING MUCH MORE - Ive changed Ive changed without taking the drug! es — don't seem to be Ripe lstcit honpent When : S! iioying the ride. You've ee POWER OF hardly said @ word, Henry .. stay here. 8 oe zs = Be ae : e ipZ Lorraine, | find | must go away | tomorrow. Imust leave the city J Urgent business. | can't tell how long 1 will be But we’ married next month And you will see me tonight, t Before you leave: BUT WHEN JEKYLL RETURNS HOME, THE IMAGE OF HYDE REAPPEARS TOO STRONGLY FOR HIM TO. IGNORE. HE DECIDES TO GO AWAY AT ONCE.BUT A GLANCE AT HIS HANDS TELLS “JEKYLL- HYDE” WHAT HAS HAPPENED. SLOWLY HE FOLLOWS |THE PORTER INTO THE TRAIN. . AND THE TRAIN BEGINS TO MOVE.DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE Til pretend to be} angry. After alCLASSIC COMICS You're very late. What if we were married and Hf you loved me, you wouldn’t be so expected home for dinner ‘Out of my wosyou moke 4 noise - .- z 5 3 £ > = 5 é 3 5 3 You are beautiful. An ugly man I've fallen in love with you. like me needs o beau!Yes, we just gotta report that @ man, carrying away a A girl, assaulted ‘others who tried to stop him. The men’s description is that of Edward Hyde. We're © sending a detail to his | Twas cleoning at the iy windows in the next ‘ouse J} daughter is in and saw the girl bein’ G4 the other room} kidnapped by oY sewing. ‘orriblerlooking man. : This time he won't get away from us! J want him locked away for life! ag1 a > el oe = a z < aa a > x a a e a AS HYDE HOLDS HIS CANE UPRAISED FOR THE DEADLY BLO’The return of the GOOD Dr. Poor Jekyll. .. He does no Jekvll . . . Ho: a wrong , » - Ho-ha! 5 x rn 7 d :DR. JEKYLL AND_MR-7HYDE = Good'Lérd! What have I done! ... Te | this is a fine time t0 come calling Twos ready to kill Lorraine! | must =. «after my daughter was nearly 9 eh = murdered. 7 = Theard about it as I was on my Ly I way here. I must seeaLoerdine- | if you hadn't been late, Henry, it might| {a never have happened. LATER THAT NIGHT... . FEAR SEIZES [= — EL ce ier ens i>. There isn't enough of the drug to last mo more than one time. JEKYLL NOT LEAVING TOWN! . . . A DESPERATE SITUATION HAS FORCED THIS DECISION .. . HE HAD LEFT HIS SUITCASE ON THE TRAIN WITH NEARLY © HIS,ENTIRE SUPPLY OF DRUGS IN IT! , :CLASSIC COMICS. Sorry, but J. can ds. SUDDENLY HIS DESPAIRING GLANCE FALLS ON A _ SMALL, MUSTY-LOOKING SHOP . . . ee Perhaps... . she might have the drug ++. She might hava cure FROM SCIENCE TO SORCERY! SUCH IS THE TWISTED. FATE OF THOSE WHO GO BEYOND THE LIMITS OF ‘THE LAWS OF CREATION . . . JEKYLL, ONCE THE CLEAR-THINKING SCIENTIST . . . STEPS INTO THE CHAMBERS OF A WITCH . .DR. JEKYLL _AND MR. HYDE Why do you ask for such a drug? ... Be You, must tell me before I can serve | fay it drives away evil. . «CLASSIC COMICS Opp | ave not THAT particular drug you seek y+. But I con show you how to mix a potion of far greater effect. Use these herbs... throe of them... a poultice | «scorpions, and « liquid that I will give you... them together...over a very B hot flame until they turn @ purple- red hue... You will know. R WHEN EVIL OVERPOWERS HIM... aT ANY MOMENT, ANY HOUR... WITH NO MORE WARNING THAN A VAMPIRE BAT.. | c HE KNEW THAT THE FIEND, RYDE, WOULD Ral) TAKE POSSESSION OF HIM.DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE came to tell you that the police are searching for this man,Hyde. | thought that since he is a friend you would know where to find him. Why are you protecting Hyde? P } | [ very well ...1 shall feel free ++ And why have you made him fo speak of your connection your’ beneficiary? . ... How can x with Hyde. Once Hyde gave me the money to continue research at a time when 1 was ready to give .up. That changed the whole course of my life. I must.CLASSIC COMICS But Hyde is a dangerous man. You're being too generous. He may get you into trouble. Hr find a cure . - must end I wi I feel so good, perhaps the devil is driven “You are due for a surprise ot ee ere Wesk this dinner . . . But I can't soy. group of scientists o week from today, Will you come? any more.DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE | You're so much fun these day s, Henry. Gentlemen, I propose @ toast! The English Medical Society with which 1 am associated hes recommended your work on nerve cells as the most outstonding of the year « To stience and to the young scientist who is doing so much for its future . . « Our guest of honor, Dr. Jekyll!CLASSIC COMICS I.chave a pain..my heart. it’s bothering Ee | Perhaps you'd better lie down Kore. i siostarely 1 (amnUst GO" Natio’, Excise: rier, for a while please. Take care of yourself. (ll drop in tomorrow and \see how you Jaa 1 got out of there just in time... must getWhy can’t you look where you're going? ++» FIL ill you for thist aCLASSIC COMICS 1 must become Jekyll». . before the body is discoveredDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE [eras | [ert aa ee DRAWS INTO: THE ' The servants are still JennCLASSIC COMICS You say the mo: t he he: ameone com sy the dinner told me the Dr. Jekyll bocame ill T hope nothing 1 must let Utterson happened to him see me here», ft before he could get Fi will provide me f with an alibi for the time of the murderDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE yf tim sorry, sir. 1 didn’t know you were’ in. You shouldn't have tried to work + Get some rest, Goodhight! It's true. | did leave Lenyon's and come straight home. But by that time I felt well enough to try some work ...1 came in the back warT just came across got to say. Not a traco ‘of @ clue, thank heavent Not @ trace of & clue... I scen @ man running down the street last night ...bout the time of the murder --. CLASSIC COMICS A _ Sree MEANWHILE, AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME. |) [im What is i??...Have you found a clue? No...only tying my shoelace. = Tea =... the most ‘orrible lookin’ man I ever seen’... ‘Is teoth like fangs, and. . -S| is Fs ae ywhere, Hyde... dragnet eS ae Hyde's life isn't worth for Hyde. This time he won't slip through 0 hands! JONCE AGAIN HYDE, THE FIEND, COMES TO LIFE THIS TIME WITH THE WILD TERROR OF & ITED MAN! = = me aH 2 [CatalCLASSIC COMICS Dr. Jekyil! Dr. Jekyiit \ 7 He might be illX again. We'll force the door BI] the docks... If 1 can reach the docks, I'll ge fe BUT A MAN INNOCENTLY STEPS OUT OF A HOUSE AND INTO HIS PATH .. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE -| 1 could have sworn I heard a ery not far from | More dirty work afoot! Le’s take o look around the corner. Hydo’s work! This is part of hi got very far away. the The other's @ blind alleyCLASSIC COMICS They'll have to go through the house to got up here. By that time . . .DR. JEKYLL AND MR. #4) WHEN THE POLICE REACH THE ROOF-TO2$ NEARLY TOUCH oo Sos shis GNI A ROGE, A ROPE WHIPS BACK AT EACH GTHER NOW. LIKE A MISSILES AT HIS PURSUERS JUNGLE-BEAST THE WILD HYDE noon Leaps .ae CLASSIC COMICS ALSO APPROACH THE WATER FRONT... here'd ‘e go now? J Ris | Headed toward the bridge! Come ont AS THEY START TO CROSS THE Worse luck! We'll Tose him now!Di ry a) > = ee = a Zz q 4 a > x i oSDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYD Poor Henry. He tried to run away from it - after his death. (t+ jum explains everything.romance, Soon after, he wrote “Kidnapped” an Child's Garden of Verses” which made laureate of the nursery (1885). e largely: “ill health. Stevenson feiss the continent Zurope to the South Sexs. and ont of this voyage ea Beat reaby of his books. on was born in Edinburgh in 1850. Despite m health apparent from childhood he was and Mr. Hyde.” So fast did this allegory er a imaginative. He grew up in posession Of personality ‘on with the public that pearly 40,000 copies in six. months in England ss: s i “An Inland Voyage’: (1878). Thus, his writing career , The Sire De | Bad his first ‘by journeying to - foci rey anh woman he had mer on his, travels ‘work on “Weir of Hermiston” when Jy. The Samoans were grief-stricken. Te bore his body to the summit of Vaea Mount buried the: famous “teller” of tales” so5 SECRET UNDER THE SEA "Sitting in their tiny, bue faiely nioeue life raft, the three men watched the Navy patrol bomber from which they had just _ scrambled sink below the surface of the ocean the atol an after long inspection, ¢ es fliers agreed. that the were J anese. ere she goes,” sadly said Radioman "Think we'll ever Ay another?” clared Aviation Machinist's Mate . “This Pacific Ocean's only ten ‘miles wide. IrIl take us no time at all ne end or the other. What do you “Wait a minute,” e 2 “We may be able Do you see what I Lieutenant Joe Grant smiled and replied: ell, if no time at all is less than twenty days, we'll be all right. We've got water and Following the direction atm, Charlie and Jack saw, yards 10 che lefc of the atoll + was hardly more S Quietly they pulled them- selves and their raft up on the rock. Charlie : i went to sleep blissfully on the solid ground, tochave youn wish granted, while Lieutenant Grant kept watch. Four h ater, he woke Charl and stretched ata ‘two whirled around to look where inting. He had not been mis-hat thd Japs were up to. They could see le mep! moying in and out’ of the few. uildings-on the island, but no:cluc as to ncir purpose was forthcoming. hat would they be doing out here in the nowhere?” wondered Charlie. “It cer- yevan ait base, and it couldn't even date a small destroyer.” rsticlte came at about noon. The three irchers saw a small motorboat leave, the atoll 1d move toward the islet. They were ready for ssperate hand-to-hand combat, bur the boat midway between the two islands. Out “into the water, stepped an. appericion Lieut. Grant identified as.a Jap in diving could swear he 5 ae amonkey "we got it!” said motorboat. “He went down there to fix some- thing, and there’s only one thing that something id be. .. an undersea oil storage tank for Jap ines. This is where they refuel s0 they don’t have to go back to bases closer home.” “Now that we know it, what are we going to do about 12” Gharlie wanted 0 know. Petia Lieutenant aot Jack mda swer for him. But several hours later, after they had wa:ched the motorboat come out for three or more repair trips, Charlie made his second big discovery in two days. Far away, almost on the horizon, he discerned the smoke and supet- structure of a ship. They guessed it was a de- stoves bx couldn't be certain of its nationality he Lieutenant suddenly, as eine oe “Yd say it’s American,” said the Lieuténant “If it were Japanese, it would know about this place. If so, it wouldn't come so close without coming still closer to say hello. If i's American, it'l] never see us or the islands.” “T've got an idea,” said Charlie, “Let's figure out from the ship's present course and speed abour where she'll be at, say, 12 o'clock tonigl Tonight, after we figure the Japs are asleep, one of us will swim over to the island. Fil do -Tm.a good swimmer. The boat is prob- sub Wnguded bones de aaah ene anyone’s here. T'll grab it, head: back here to pick wp you fellows and chen we'll dash for the destroyer. The Japs probably haven't got an- other boat to chase us in, so when the noise of the motor wakes them up, they won't be able : to doa thing.” Jack and the Liew tenant agreed to the plan. They werched the destroyer u. night obscured ten o'clock, ~ Charlie slipped into the wacer and quietly struck for the island. Anxious minutes later, the od er two heard a mow sputter once or twi thén burst into a full-throated roar. Soon: came from the island, then the crash and flash of gunfire. Bat'Charlie was back ‘at the isler quickly and soon the three were speeding toward their hoped-for rendezvous with the destroyer Their calculations proved to be accurate. board the destroyer, which turned out | Australian, thecommander listened to their story. and ordered the ship turned in’ the direction from which the Americans had come. At daw they found the Jap island. The descroyer's five-. inchers took care of the buildings on it, and depth bombs, dropped on the spor indicated by. Lieutenant Grant, proved he had guessed right about the refueling base, A widening oil slid was soon all that was left of that particular 7 in the Jap war machine.CLASSIC COMICS# GIVE YOU THE{/WORLD'S GREATEST AUTHORS oe ees ieee tions from these 28 Crs uCur iis Bariatrics Cred Se euiis es THE THREE MUSKETEERS key Wan SSezgqn0eece 2 3 2 2 2 5 au) Boe i ‘CLASSIC COMICS 72 are 14 FT aL LASpS | aa Where Le dali =f O58 = ie OEERSLATER THE MUNCHBACK OF Notte Same Hues teveahy Finns CORSICAN eROTNERS. 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