F.B.I. Inspector Dan Fowler takes a trail of blood and bullets when he goes on the manhunt to check a sinister crime baron’s heinous activities! The Law is challenged by a Midas of murder whose touch means sudden death! A fabulous yellow hoard is the lure that leads men to commit deeds of terror!
During the Depression, crime and corruption swept across the United States like a massive, seemingly unstoppable storm. Great steps were taken on a federal level to combat the ever-increasing hold of organized crime as well as a growing number of murders, large scale robberies, and other criminal operations. Because of Prohibition, much of the legal power in the country was centered in the then Department of Investigation, led since 1924 by J. Edgar Hoover. Even with the end of Prohibition in 1933, Hoover’s hold on law enforcement didn’t weaken, the Department being renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935, reflecting not only Hoover’s reach, but also the power of the entity itself.
It was also the same year that G-Men Magazine debuted, featuring Dan Fowler, the character who would quickly become the best known F.B.I. agent on the printed page. Called a ‘manhunter’ by his earliest authors, Fowler was even more well known by the moniker that he borrowed from the title of his magazine and made his own: G-Man.
Fowler stood out from other Pulp heroes before him in several ways. Although seemingly superhuman in some ways, especially in later stories, Fowler was cut from the cloth of more grounded heroes like policemen and detectives. Readers could not only see the very crime that seemingly filled their streets in the Fowler stories, but they could also believe someone like the G-Man was just outside fighting for them.
Milton Bagby breathes life into the F.B.I.’s most relentless and skilled manhunter, Dan Fowler G-Man in the thrilling tale Golden Harvest! Originally published in the July 1939 issue of G-Men!
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Death Thumbs a Ride
Chapter 2: The Living Dead
Chapter 3: Inspector Dan Fowler
Chapter 4: Hugo Meets His Man
Chapter 5: F.B.I. Means Fight
Chapter 6: A Call to Arms
Chapter 7: Devil Tracks
Chapter 8: The Big Fish Bite
Chapter 9: Murder Signs
Chapter 10: Village of Ghosts
Chapter 11: Grim Enigma
Chapter 12: Six Strikes
Chapter 13: Sentinels of Death
Chapter 14: Antidote for G-Man Poison
Chapter 15: Out of the Past
Chapter 16: Hell Brewing
Chapter 17: The Lid Blows Off
Chapter 18: King Scavenger
Chapter 19: F.B.l. Magic
Chapter 20: Showdown