Drake needs to recruit new sailors, and unwittingly takes the cause of his own ruin on board when he recruits none other than Tex himself. Shortly after this, Kit Willer is safe with his father on Captain Bart’s ship while Black beard, foaming with rage and with his ship missing its mast, gets lost in the night at the mercy of the stormy waves of the Pacific! The terrible hurricane also puts Sea Tiger off course, and it is wrecked on an island of Melanesia populated by savages…
In this number: the previous adventure extends from page 5 to page 68 (artwork by Galleppini); from page 69 to page 114,“L’uragano” (“The hurricane”) (artwork by Nicolò).