Credits
Letterer(s):
typeset
Subject Matter
Genres:
adventure, mystery
Character(s):
Dr. Petrie; Sir Denis Nayland Smith; Karamaneh; Fu Manchu
First Line:
Imagine a man, tall, lean and cat-like, with long, strange, magnetic eyes...
Synopsis:
Nayland Smith involves Dr. Petrie in his struggle against the forces of Fu Manchu, first by solving the "Zayat Kiss" mystery where men are killed by a poisonous centipede. During this, Petrie is entranced by Karamaneh, who proves to be Fu Manchu's servant. Later, Smith and Petrie head to Limehouse to solve the mystery of dead men with severed fingers. Infiltrating an opium den, the duo wind up face-to-face with Fu Manchu and Petrie nearly suffers the same fate as the other severed finger cases.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
from Fu Manchu (Bell Syndicate) 4/30/1930-6/20/1931
Miscellaneous
Pages:
108
Notes:
Adapted from Sax Rohmer's original Fu Manchu serial, first published in 1912's the Story-Teller, specifically the sequences "The Zayat Kiss" and "The Clue of the Pigtail." The serial was assembled in 1913 as the novel The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (UK)/The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu (USA). Much of the contents in this collection were also featured in Wow - What a Magazine #1-4 (Henle Publications, 1936) and Detective Comics #17-25 (DC, 1937).