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DAN DARE
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 DAN. DARE:

SEALS « DOOM YOUR ASSISTANCE URGE-

ENTLY REQUESTED IN
SOLVING MURDER MYSTERY
DAN DARE. ACE PRIVATE DETECT tVE, RECEIVES AX MY ESTATE. PLEASE
A MYSTERIOUS SUMMONS FROM A FLORIDA COME AT ONCE.
- MULTI-MILLIONAIRE. MIS ASSISTANT, CAROL
CLEWS. URGES HIM TO TAKE A MUCH-NEEDED CARLOS PESETA
VACATION INSTEAD BUT DAN'S CURIOSITY
IS AROUSED.
SEA CASTLE, FL(

WORE WE MUST NT
DOUBLE TALK' BE SEEN TO-
HOW CAN I GETHER UNTIL
HELP IF

T
THIS CASE IS
YOU WONT CRACKED. WAIT
EVEN LET ME AT YOUR HOTEL
IN ON YOUR UNTIL YOU HEAR
THEORIES? FRO/A ME.

LAST SATURDAY NIOHT THE I SEE. DID

BODY OF A YOUNG FISHER- THE POKE
MAN CALLED SEMINOLE SAM FIND ANY
WAS FOUND LYING HERE. HE CLUES?
WORE A WET BATHING SUIT

DAN 60ES IMMEDIATELY

) CARLOS PESETAS. MAG-
1IFICENT OCEAN-FRONT ESTATE LEAPS THE DETECTIVE TO A
"
OUTSIDE A PRIVATE WLLRK*
 DOWN HERE TO VERY INTERESTING. BUT I YES- WE
INVESTIGATE MATTER OF FACT IM HERE TO IO0K INTOl COULDNT RND
TH05E SMUGGLERS, lM NOT, CHIEF, THE SEMINOLE SAM A SINGLE F1H-
MR. DARE? BUT I (AK3HT , MURDER. IS THI3 THE GERPRINT ON
LATER ON.WHATS KNIFE THAT K.ILLED IT. THOUGH.
THE DOPE? HIM?

an hour later, dan

visits the- sea castle police chief, who explains
that a gigantic dope ring is using sea castle
as the landing point for narcotics smuggled
from the orient, the "pirate" a gambling ship
anchored outside the three-mile umit is be"
ueved to be the contact boat, but so far
pouce have been unable to dscover how the *
drugs are 3r0ught ashore from the "pirate

EVERYBODY IN TOWN FI5HES BY THE WW, CHIEF, CAROL? LISTEN-FIND A MAM

FOR FUN OR FOR A LIVING MOW DID CARLOS NAMED PORTUGUESE PETE,
AND NEARLY EVERYBODY PESETA MAKE HIS LEARN WHAT HE KNOWS
HAS A KNIFE MONEY ? ABOUT THE 'SS.PIRATE' AND
EXACTLY LIKE||MAW*M. THAT COWP PHONE ME AT MY HOTEL
THISONE. UCATES THINGS LATE TONIGHT. G'BYE.
HAVING SEEN THE MURDER, BY THE WAY, MERE 5 THE THANKS, MR. DARE
PORTUGUESE PETE DEMANDED ft *5,O0O PESETA PAID ME. I KNOW THEY CAN
BIGGER SHARE OF THE SMUGGLING GIVE IT TO THE COMMUNITY U5E IT FOR SOME
PROFITS. TO GET RID OF HlfA, PESETA CHEST WITH MY REGARDS. WORTHY CHARITY.
CALLED ME IN TO BUILD UP A CASE
AGAINST HIM.

WELL, SONNY BOY YOUVE OKAY, SLAVE

HAD YOUR FUN. NOW
YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE A
GOOD LONG VACATION.

DAN DARE
% POLICE HEADQUARTERS •

SEA CASTLE. FLA.

EXTORTION GANG DEMANDS * 300,000
OR. WILL DYNAMITE MY HOUSE AND
KM ME AND MY FAMILY. AFRAID TO
TELL POLICE. YOUR HELP VITAL.
PLEASE HURRY.
y\ MORGAN BUCKSWORTFi
J.
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CAROL'S

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