Paul Wheelahan's The Panther #9

([January 1958])

Ten Miles High (Table of Contents: 1)

The Panther / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Wheelahan

Pencils

Paul Wheelahan (credited)

Inks

Paul Wheelahan (credited)

Letters

Paul Wheelahan

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the cool darkness of an African night...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Colonel Nader; Dr. Vell; The Panther; Maku

Synopsis

Base commander Colonel Nader and scientist Dr. Vell look on as a rocket is launched into space. However, as soon as it reaches a certain altitude it appears to explode, and plummets to earth. Not the first time this has happened, and its cause is a mystery. The next day jungle native Maku reports to the Panther that a flying machine has crashed nearby. Surveying the wreckage he realizes it's a rocket, not a plane, that has fallen. After meeting with the Colonel and Dr. Vell, the Panther volunteers to fly a jet to follow the next rocket into the sky so as to observe up close its trajectory.