Yes, Jim! We just received word that Devers had his head blown off in his hotel room! He's one of the Trio we suspected in yesterday's bank robbery! Come with me! I'm going to investigate! 
- — Lt. Kent
Master Comics #75 is an issue of the series Master Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1946.
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and the Zombie Master"
Freddy Freeman has traveled to Haiti to meet Mr. Jamison, who he has recruited 50 workers for to help work at his airfield. Jamison reveals that there's a problem: he didn't really get a contract for anyone to build it yet, but he's been underbid time and again, but assures him he'll pay for everyone's trips home. Freddy asks what's happened to cause this issue and Jamison says a rich man named J Parkington Snard snatched the contract for half the price, a financial suicide that certainly wouldn't be profitable… but still he got it. Freddy offers some time to look around town and decides to investigate Snard by calling CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. He flies out to the site and finds a Haitian worker about to be killed by a falling tree, but standing still entirely. Junior flies in and finds he's dead and finds that J Parkington Snard looks like Vincent Price in a tan suit wearing a green sombrero, who also somehow knows all about his powerful abilities. He asks him to remove the tree and when he does, the worker gets back up and goes back to work. Junior asks what that was and Snard merely says that Haitians are “remarkably sturdy” and quick to recuperate. Junior notes that the man looked very pale compared to other Haitians and that he was wearing a strange bracelet with an odd design. He does this mostly by just following Snard to see he works with a Zombie Master, who has turned the workers into zombies that never sleep or eat. When Junior tries to fight him, the Zombie Master kicks hot coals in his face, distracting him until they escape. He flies to a nearby village where women are weeping that the zombies stole her husband and so Junior returns to being Freddy to sneak into his complex.
Freddy soon finds a hut surrounded by dead men and the Zombie Master clubs him in the head. Freddy wakes up bound and gagged as the Zombie Master starts a zombie ritual and prepares to kill Freddy. Freddy dodges at the right moment and the machete cuts off his gag instead and he calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Junior once more. Junior quickly tears off his voodoo bracelets, which are what control the zombies and the zombies turn on them, killing the Zombie Master and then dying in the airfield. Snard, terrified, is punched over by Junior and arrested to be turned over for the Haitian crime of “buying or selling zombies.” Later, Freddy finds that Jamison got the contract after all by default and Jamison thanks Captain Marvel Junior.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and the Zombie Master"
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- Mr. Jamison
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- J. Parkington Snard
- The Zombie Master I (Dies)
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- Voodoo Bracelets (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Nyoka the Jungle Girl: "In India!"
Appearing in Nyoka the Jungle Girl: "In India!"
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Synopsis for Bulletman the Flying Detective: "Bulletman the Flying Detective and The Terrible Trio!"
Three infamous gangster, the Terrible Trio, leg it out of the Third National Bank with a bunch of stolen money and head to Gray's Cigar Store to stow their loot as a package. Mr. Gray identifies them as Devers, Everett and Fuller and Devers claims that he needs to hold on to the package for a few weeks as “joke on a friend.” Mr. Gray hears about the robbery on the radio. Mr. Gray gets curious when they're gone and opens it, finding the missing $10,000 inside. The next morning, Lt. Kent gets news in that Devers of the Terrible Trio has exploded in his hotel room. The hotel's manager says that Devers only came down to get his mail and then went back to his room before he exploded and Lt. Kent gets a phone call there from Police HQ that Everett is also dead due to his head exploding as Lt. Kent sends Jim Barr to investigate with Susan Kent. They quickly change into the Bullets to find Fuller before it's too late, but they find that Lt. Kent is already there and Fuller has also exploded. Lt. Kent takes one of the Gray's Cigars off his table from the stress of three murders in one morning, but Bulletgirl persuades him not to smoke it. He throws it into the trash… and it also explodes! Bulletman lights up another stogie and finds that these are filled with explosives and remarks that they were in each of the Terrible Trio's apartments. They take off to each scene and find that a single cigar is missing from each box too. They soon meet Mr. Gray at his shop, where he feigns going to get his sales records (to see if the Terrible Trio bought anything,) but he instead clubs them with a baton and leaves them bound in his backroom. He wires a cigar into each of their mouths to kill them, admitting that he killed the Terrible Trio so he could keep the money from their big score. Once he's gone, Bulletman stands up a little, knocking over a fire pail filled with water that douses the cigars and they soon break free. They find Mr. Gray escaping on the caboose of a train and he throws more dynamite cigars at them, only for him to quickly run out. They punch him out and go to return the stolen money to the bank.
Appearing in Bulletman the Flying Detective: "Bulletman the Flying Detective and The Terrible Trio!"
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- Mr. Gray, Evil Cigar Shop Owner
- The Terrible Trio II
- Devers (Dies)
- Everett (Dies)
- Fuller (Dies)
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- Earth-S
- New York City
- Police HQ
- Gray's Cigar Store
- The Third National Bank
- New York City
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- Explosive Dynamite Cigars
- A Fire Bucket
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- A Train
Synopsis for Radar the International Policeman: "Radar the International Policeman Exposes the Merchant of War!"
Appearing in Radar the International Policeman: "Radar the International Policeman Exposes the Merchant of War!"
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- Benedict Black
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- South America
- The Nation of P
- The Nation of B
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Trivia
- Despite the cover, the Zombie Master doesn't have some sort of large, colorful mask. Instead he has a lot of accessories. He also doesn't seem to play a drum either, instead using a voodoo bracelet and some form of ritual to control his zombies.
- The Terrible Trio in this issue outdate the animal-headed ones who fought Batman by 12 years before their first appearance in Detective Comics# 253
- Similarly, they are unrelated to the super-powered goon trio from Wow Comics# 42, who fought Mary Marvel only a few months earlier!
- There are true countries each in South America that could be Nation P or Nation B:
- The Republic of Peru or the Republic of Paraguay
- The Plurinational State of Bolivia or the Fourth Brazilian Republic
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