Number 1876: Starr Flagg in Mexico: Jiu Jitsu, torture and atomic bombs

I don’t know if it was a requirement for scripter Gardner Fox to include girl fights in his Undercover Girl stories, but he managed to get them in. There is nothing wrong with a good girlfight (you Ronda Rousey fans know that), but Starr seemed to get one in during every undercover assignment she took. In this one, alas, we only get a panel of her flipping a sexy señorita on her back. But as a bonus we get torture scenes with a couple of men hanging by their wrists in a basement, and we see the lash marks across their backs. I guess for a 1948 crime comic that was a pretty good total of sex and violence for a six-page story.

There is a plot involving missiles with atomic war heads, and oh, yeah, for a little local color we get some guys in sombreros to let us know it is taking place south of the border, down Mexico way.

I scanned “The House that Hate Built” from the reprint in Undercover Girl #5 (1952). It was originally published in M.E.’s Manhunt #8 (1948). Art is by Ogden Whitney, and the cover is by Dick Ayers.

I have shown a couple of Starr Flagg adventures before. For some more sexy thrills and girls fighting just click on the thumbnail.

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