America's Best Comics #24

When a kindly collector named Archibald Wingate purchases a shabby rocking chair at auction for an outrageous price, The Black Terror and Tim Roland soon realize there's more to the bidding war than meets the eye—a string of stolen matched pearls has been hidden inside. The Terror Twins must track down the crooks who stashed the necklace and uncover the connection between a nervous fence and a criminal with a telltale twitch in "The Case of the Creaking Chair."

Diana Adams leads a double life as a frivolous society debutante by day and the athletic crime-fighter Miss Masque by night—and when a valuable heirloom is stolen from her during a night club robbery, she must track down the thieves using her masked identity. As she investigates the peculiar camera carried by photographer Andrews and his connection to nightclub owner Charley Rado, Diana uncovers a clever scheme to identify genuine jewels, putting her on a collision course with the criminal gang.

When young researcher Dick Martin travels west to test a radium strike for his friend Jack Beldon, he discovers far more danger than he bargained for—a mysterious white horse that seems to kill with supernatural force. As prospector Tim Griffin and rancher Ed Rogers fall victim to the ghostly creature, Pyroman must uncover whether this specter is real or an elaborate cover for murder and theft.

When ruthless criminals led by Doctor Trauble hatch a plot to seize Professor Taylor's atomic transmutation discoveries and weaponize them for wealth and power, the Fighting Yank must race against time to stop the kidnapping—but the villains have taken both the scientist and Joan Farwell hostage. With his magical cloak torn away and Doctor Trauble's deadly prussionuc acid ammunition in play, the direct descendant of a Revolutionary War hero faces his most dangerous fight yet, aided by an unexpected phantom from his own family's past.