Comic Title: Adventure Comics #425
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1972
On Sale Date: October 26, 1972 Newsstand Date October 26, 1972
Source: House Ad, Adventure Comics #424, Page 28

Newsstand Date October 26, 1972
Source: Comic Reader, #89

Copyright Date October 26, 1972
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1972

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.20
Page Count: 32
Editor: Joe Orlando

Title: (No Title)
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Captain Fear

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Alex N. Nino

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Fear (aka Fero; first appearance; next appearance in Adventure Comics #426)

Villain(s)

• A group of Spanish conquistadores (no further appearances)
• Captain Chang (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Quinto (Fero's father; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• The Carib indians (no further appearances)
• The crew of a Chinese ship (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Quinto leads a tribe of indians in Haiti. When a Spanish ship attacks them Quinto is killed. He passes leadership of the tribe to his son Fero who is captured by the Spanish along with other members of his tribe. Fero and the others are put to work as slaves in a Spanish mine. He is able to provoke a revolt against their oppressors. The indians escape and gain control of a Spanish galleon, but shortly after taking sail, the ship is lost in a storm.

Fero is adrift and alone in the seas for days. He is found by a Chinese ship captained by Chang. Unwilling to be made a slave again, Fero challenges the captain to a fight. After a fierce battle, Fero is victorious. He then takes command of the ship and its crew, dubbing himself Captain Fear with a mission to seek reprisal on the Spanish.