Arc 8: Fancy Fluff
Written by
Frank Robbins (writer and artist)
Strips: 458 - 636
Dates: 11/20/1945 - 06/15/1946
Daily Arc 006
At the very end of the previous arc, Johnny Hazard, as he leaves the transport ship at the dock, is then greeted as the 1 millionth returnee and as such receives a prize of $5k and his picture in the papers. Now a civilian with a new suit and some money in his pocket, Hazard starts pondering what next. His prize winning attracts a lot of scam artists waiting for him at his hotel room but inside that room he finds a woman who identifies herself as Fluffy Randall, sister to an old friend of Hazard from the War. She is there to get his help finding her brother who has disappeared since being medevacked back to the States earlier. He had been hired to fly a professor around French Guiana before he vanished. Brandy finagles a ride to cover a rash of escapes from the penal colonies there. Those disappearances and how they happen will play a major part of this adventure.