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The Coming of the Yellow Claw
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Al Feldstein (writer), Joe Maneely (artist)
Copyright: 1956
1st of 3 stories published in Yellow Claw #1, 10/1956. Red China is on a major roll bringing all of their lands under its control, with the major exception of Formosa which is under the protection of the United States. Before China can reclaim that island it must stymie the US. For that the leadership decides to call on the mysterious Yellow Claw. The Yellow Claw agrees but does not reveal he is planning on bringing down the US as just the first step in world domination. Meanwhile, the FBI learns of the recent arrival of the Yellow Claw and assigns agent Johnny Woo to track him down.
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The Yellow Claw Strikes
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Al Feldstein (writer), Joe Maneely (artist)
Copyright: 1956
2nd of 3 stories published in Yellow Claw #1, 10/1956. Now using an old curio shop in the Chinatown of San Francisco as a front, the Yellow Claw uses his strange abilities and crystal ball to choose a convict "rotting" in a prison cell to do his dirty work, after faking the criminal's death to get him out of incarceration.
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'Captured By The Claw'
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Al Feldstein (writer), Joe Maneely (artist)
Copyright: 1956
3rd of 3 stories published in Yellow Claw #1, 10/1956. Irked by his first scheme's failure due to Jimmy Woo, the Yellow Claw flees his temporary headquarters in San Francisco but in so doing sets a trap to capture Woo by leaving behind his beautiful niece, Suwan, as "attractive bait"..
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Concentrate On Chaos
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), Rosalind Kirby (inks)
Copyright: 1956
1st of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #2, 12/1956. The Yellow Claw has chosen six of the most dangerous people on Earth to create an atmosphere of chaos in which the archfiend can operate, using their mental mutant powers It will fall to Jimmy Woo to stop them. Note: this may be the first major introduction of mutants and their powers by Jack Kirby, seven years before he would come out with his mutant X-Men.
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The Mystery Of Cabin 361!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), Rosalind Kirby (inks)
Copyright: 1956
2nd of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #2, 12/1956. The manhunt for the Yellow Claw continues and Jimmy Woo is at the docks watching a passenger ship being loaded. An old man and old woman, staying in Cabin 361, is of particular interest since the latter has "well-turned ankles for a woman of her age".
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'The Trap'
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), Rosalind Kirby (inks)
Copyright: 1956
3rd of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #2, 12/1956. "Suwan, niece of the Yellow Claw, is torn by a terrible conflict between her loyalty to her uncle and her love for Jimmy Woo." Despite his misgivings, Jimmy Woo follows an order to use that young woman as bait to capture the arch-criminal.
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Temujai ... The Golden Goliath!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), Rosalind Kirby (inks)
Copyright: 1956
4th of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #2, 12/1956. Temujai is a "legend comes to life, rising from the depths of the mysterious Malay jungles to menace the peace of the world and serve the plans of the Yellow Claw". A pilot reports seeing the 1,000 foot tall man walking that country's hills.
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The Microscopic Army!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), Rosalind Kirby (inks)
Copyright: 1957
1st of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #3, 02/1957. A band of paid assassins working for the Yellow Claw walk through a "great wire cage which glows with a strange light" and comes out the other side greatly reduced in size to about 1" tall. They are then able to get into place normal sized people could not. After capturing the device, Jimmy Woo gets shrunk himself to stop them.
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UFO The Lightning Man!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), Rosalind Kirby (inks)
Copyright: 1957
2nd of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #3, 02/1957. Jimmy Woo is called to a guided missile launch site to observe a mysterious event. As the missile is launched and reaches 10k feet, "a mysterious circular light appears in a nearby cloud" and from the center of the light comes strange bolts of lightning blowing up the missile.
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The Yellow Claw Captured
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), Rosalind Kirby (inks)
Copyright: 1957
3rd of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #3, 02/1957. The headlines in the paper announce the capture of the Yellow Claw. Apparently one of his key lieutenants, von Voltzmann, turned on him. Jimmy Woo has a strange feeling it is just another scheme by the oriental mastermind.
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Sleeping City!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), Rosalind Kirby (inks)
Copyright: 1957
4th of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #3, 02/1957. "In the frigid wastes above the Arctic Circle, a Russian exploration teams makes an interesting find", snow with a strange order which makes those near it very drowsy. One of those in the team is an agent of the Yellow Claw who kills the others and steals the snow. The Yellow Claw plans on using it to be the perfect weapon for an upcoming invasion.
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The Living Shadows!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), John Severin (inks)
Copyright: 1957
1st of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #4, 04/1957. In his latest technological marvel, the Yellow Claw has created a machine which uses previously unknown elements to manufacture "an attractor beam into ... another universe" and what it pulls out are living shadows crying be sent back. He will harness those creatures to break into the US facility hold Suwan.
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The Screemies!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), John Severin (inks)
Copyright: 1957
2nd of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #4, 04/1957. Screemies is the name given by an associate of the Yellow Claw for a new subspecies of sea gulls which he reckons came too close to the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll. These creatures have arms with hands and with a voracious appetite. The Yellow Claw sees a great use for them as a weapon.
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Five Million Sleep-Walkers!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), John Severin (inks)
Copyright: 1957
3rd of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #4, 04/1957. Sleepy Eyes is the stage name of a popular television mentalist which the Yellow Claw is planning on using to help mesmerize the viewing public of a modest sized American city to go on massive looting and destruction.
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The Yellow Claw and the Thought Master!
Published by Atlas Comics
Contributors: Jack Kirby (writer and artist), John Severin (inks)
Copyright: 1957
4th of 4 stories published in Yellow Claw #4, 04/1957. The Yellow Claw has learned of a man named Barnaby Wade who has brain waves so powerful they can reach around the world. With them he can create "objects of pure thought ... developed by scientific experimentation to the ultimate degree! [He] can turn thought into reality". One of the first uses the Yellow Claws has is to materialize a ferocious lion in Jimmy Woo's apartment.
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Project Blackout
Published by Marvel Comics
Contributors: Jim Steranko (writer and artist), Sam Rosen (letters)
Copyright: 1967
Published in Strange Tales #160-168, 09/1967 - 05/1968. Captain America brings to SHIELD headquarters FBI man Jimmy Woo to meet with Nick Fury to discuss the threat to the West from the resurgence of the Yellow Claw.
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So Shall Ye Reap ... Death!
Published by Marvel Comics
Contributors: Jim Steranko (writer and artist), Sam Rosen (letters), Frank Giacoia (inks)
Copyright: 1968
Published in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #2, 07/1968. "Off the Pacific Coast, en route to the Heli-Carrier Fury and Jimmy Woo are knocked out of the sky and wind up on a volcanic island transformed into a Garden of Eden and biological laboratory by Centurius, a scientist who disappeared in the 1930s when his theories were scoffed at. After creating both new and extinct forms of life and sending them into space Centurius plans to rain down fire on the Earth for forty days and forty nights, cleansing it and starting the world anew. With the help of a visiting movie company and their robot gorilla prop, Fury and Woo put the kibosh on his plans."
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