Amazing Mystery Funnies #3

In "Part 1 - The Professors Enemy!" from Amazing Mystery Funnies #3 (1939), Professor Gray and his crew are airborne in the experimental DX after a series of tests, only to be met with sudden hostility when they pass over Curley's land—where a commanding voice orders the craft brought down, but not destroyed.

In "null," Dirk and the Princess arrive at the palace for her wedding to Prince Marcus, only to find the halls filled with masked intruders. As they're captured, Dirk makes a desperate break for freedom, determined to rescue the royal couple before it's too late.

In "Vanishing Men," the Sheriff and his posse track a notorious gang of bank robbers into the rugged hills—only to watch them vanish again, as they always do. When the posse sets up camp, the Sheriff ventures out alone and spots the mysterious Phantom, silently moving toward the outlaws’ hidden lair.

In "The Madhouse Murder Mystery," Inspector Farrel is sent to the Hillcrest Sanitarium to investigate a reported suicide, only to find the nurse on duty snatched away by a hooded figure in black—dragged off to a hidden dungeon for a sinister brain transplant. The story unfolds with eerie precision, blending suspense and mystery in a setting where sanity itself feels fragile.

In "Pay Off for Mr. Ghost," a mysterious haunting at the Billings estate draws in Pat and a news reporter, who set out to uncover the truth behind the eerie disturbances. What starts as a simple investigation into supernatural rumors quickly unravels into a clever scheme by the servants—driven not by ghosts, but by unpaid wages and a desire for justice.

In "The Mysterious Poacher," Captain Dale and his trusted companion set out to investigate a series of strange disappearances in the wilderness, only to find animals left with their heads missing—leaving behind a trail of unease and suspicion. With no clear answers and danger lurking in the shadows, the duo must piece together the truth before the next victim is taken.

Sari Marston steals the secret formula for invisibility from Invex and uses it on herself to pursue her own agenda—tracking the villainous Vance Roy across the solar system. When she commandeers a rocket ship headed for Venus, her brother Paul discovers her invisible presence aboard just as they find themselves caught between Roy's tyrannical Yellow Star Army and the planet's rebelling Red Men. With danger closing in and the mystery of Sari's true mission still unfolding, the stakes mount higher with each passing moment.

In the shadowy corridors of a 1939 sci-fi mystery, Invex confronts Steele with the theft of his Invisa-Ray formula—only for the truth to unfold in secret, as Steele’s girl, Jo, takes matters into her own hands. With the formula now hers, she vanishes into the unseen, tracking Vance Roy through a world growing darker by the hour, unaware of the terrifying truth: the Yellow Star Army has already taken over the planet.

When a meteor flings Eddie onto Earth, he’s quickly noticed by two large birds—one eager to bring him home to his children as a toy. Tired of the burden, the bird drops Eddie into a nudist camp, where his unexpected arrival sets off a chain of awkward, surreal moments.