The second story starts with The Scorpion being hired by the
wife of a missing financier with rumours of voodoo and black magic. Frost is about to refuse the case when he is
attacked by a lion. A lion who returns
to human form after death.
Intrigued The Scorpion begins his investigation and
discovers that the missing financier has no history prior to 1930 the same time
a Chicago gangster died in an accident.
The Scorpion finds the man dead seemingly of a heart attack in a locked
room. But the discovery of a voodoo doll
suggests murder.
Ruby discovers that the gangster’s partner is in town and
that the widow is the only person who can access the Panamanian bank accounts
where the money was hidden. Our villains kidnap Ruby thinking she is the widow
and kill the voodoo priestess.
The Scorpion finds the dying priestess who tells him that
she expected the double cross and set up a couple of hexes to get her revenge
from the grave. The Scorpion races to
rescue Ruby from the first hex, a spell on a pet lion cub to turn him into a
giant raging beast.
Stopping the beast and narrowly avoiding being shot to
death, the Scorpion is informed that the dead man’s body has disappeared from
the morgue. Realising that the second
hex has made a zombie to kill his wife, the Scorpion races across town to
prevent the death of his client.
The zombie is unstoppable and the Scorpion blows up the
house. The story ends with the Scorpion telling reporters he’s not waiving his
fee.
The cover image of zombies attacking Ruby doesn’t appear in
the story, with only the one zombie attacking the widow not Ruby and that
Zombie looks nothing like those on the cover.
Again it’s another high action story, with the Scorpion
racing around town investigating and saving people from the voodoo hexes.
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