Yellow Claw

The Yellow Claw was published by Atlas Comics, the publisher that would soon become Marvel Comics. The main villain was similar to Fu Manchu and the title reflected the anti-Communist sentiment prevalent at the time of its publication.



Plot
Yellow Claw comes to America and sets up shop in San Francisco. The purpose of his visit? Launching a communist takeover of the world! In Washington D.C., Jimmy Woo is put on a career-changing case.

Issue # 01
The Chinese Communist High Command meets in Kunming, Yunnan province. Their planned invasion of Formosa (Taiwan) has failed because of the American presence there. General Mao Sung suggests to General Chu that they recruit a "century-old mystic" he has heard about: the Yellow Claw. Accordingly, Mao takes a jeep to Tibet. When he asks the peasants how to find the Yellow Claw, though, they flee in terror. Mao finally meets someone who will talk to him: a young woman who introduces herself as Suwan, the Yellow Claw's grandniece. She leads him to a palace and vanishes. Mao ventures inside. The Yellow Claw already knows the purpose of Mao's visit; he agrees to go to America and pave the way for a Communist takeover of the world.

The Yellow Claw and Suwan travel to San Francisco's Chinatown and establish their base in a curio shop. And in Washington, DC, a young FBI agent named Jimmy Woo little suspects that he is about to get the case of his life.