DEAD MEN DON'T LIE By J. Walt Layne X chases after wealthy politicians looking to finance enemy saboteurs and add to their ill-gotten gains. FACE TO FACE WITH AGENT LOKI By Andy Fix Secret Agent X battles his own counterpart, a German spy who is also a master of disguise. DEVIL IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA By Fred Adams Jr. From the early days of Secret Agent X's career, as he battles a sadistic U-Boat commander on the high seas. THE DEATH DUEL OF MADAM ROGUE By Frank Schildiner An old enemy from his past threatens to end Secret Agent X's career...and his life.

HOWL OF THE WOLF It is 1969; Newark, N.J. Former Green Beret Jim Slate comes home from Vietnam to live a quiet, peaceful life. His wish is cruelly denied him when he is kidnapped by Michael Monzo, a local gang boss who wants to rule the entire city. To do this he must bring down his rivals. Monzo recruits an occult practioner who can turn an ordinary man into a vicious werewolf and then control his actions by the use of a magic amulet. But to carry out this heinous plan, he needs a subject. And so Jim Slate is snatched and turned into a "Hitwolf." But Slate is no one's puppet and, despite the...

TERROR ON THE PLAINS Former Union scouts and saddle tramps Durken and McAfee are more than satisfied with their lives as cattle-punchers for Homer Eldridge and his Triple Six ranch. When a mysterious, black clad preacher arrives in town leading a congregation of dwarfish foreigners, strange things begin to happen. First cattle from various spreads are found savagely butchered out on the range for no apparent reason. Then several Triple Six hands go missing. McAfee begins to suspects there is something very sinister about the new reverend and his people. Something that will bring more horror...

The WAYS OF MAGIC During World War II, C.O. Jones, under a different name, was recruited into a special unit of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). Special in that all the members had some kind of extrasensory abilities bordering on magic. Their main mission was to seek out and combat the Nazis' top secret Occult Practioners. But the war is now over and C.O. is just another veteran looking for a fresh start. He hopes the quiet little town of Brownsville, Pennsylvania is the perfect place to do so. That is, until he gets involved with the local criminal element and discovers, through his...

A TASTE OF FANG & CLAW Deep in the heart of the Caplock Mountains of Nevada a frightening new horror is preying on settlers and prospectors alike. When the entire crew of a mining outfit is found torn to pieces, the U.S. Cavalry is sent to investigate under the command of General Sherman, the famous Civil War tactician. He immediately recruits his former army scouts turned cowpunchers, Durken and McFee, to help ferret out this new threat to frontier settlements. Soon the two cantankerous saddle-mates find themselves caught up between government agents and frightened Indian tribes who warn of...

THE HUNT CONTINUES Oct. 1969. It has been several months since veteran Green Beret Jim Slate escaped captivity at the hands of New Jersey mob boss, Michael Monzo. Employing a mercenary wizard, Monzo had transformed Slate into a werewolf with the intentions of using him as his own personal "hitwolf." But Slate managed to foil Monzo and fled to the New Jersey wilderness known as the Barrens. There he rendezvoused with three of his former army pals and related his harrowing experiences. Knowing the mob will never stop hunting Slate, the team heads for the swamps of Chambliss, Georgia to hide...

WHEN THE CURTAIN FALLS Fifteen years ago Sam Dunne was the lead guitarist and singer for the popular rock band, Gin Sing. Critics and fans prophesied a meteoric rise to the top of the music charts. Then Dunne's bandmates, Eddie Shay and Danny Barton, kicked him to the curb and went chasing after rock stardom without him. Dunne now works small one night gigs while teaching English Literature at a community college. He's let the past go and learned to accept things as they are. Then he turns the radio on one morning to learn Shay has been murdered: shot to death in his private home studio. Soon...

TOGETHER IN MYSTERY In the early 1900s San Francisco tycoon Reginald Smith had all a man could want. His trading business, the Oriental Trade Consortium, had become a financial empire and the beautiful Ling-Tao became his wife. Then his fortunes changed when his beloved died in childbirth, giving him two sons, Ming and Hong. The problem being they were co-joined twins, forever tied to each other by an accident of birth. Smith hired a brilliant tutor for them who convinced him to stop sheltering his sons from the public. He argued that they would only survive the cruelty of the world by...