America's Greatest Comics #4

When Thaddeus Bodog Sivana concocts a scheme to transform the elderly Professor Edgewise into a young man to win over his moping daughter Beautia, the plan spirals into something far more sinister—Sivana manipulates the now-youthful scientist into helping him plant explosives beneath a theatre hosting a star-studded war relief benefit packed with the world's greatest crime fighters. As the trap closes around the assembled heroes, Captain Marvel and his allies must contend with Sivana's most elaborate plot yet to eliminate them all at once.

When Spy Smasher receives urgent orders to rescue a commander from Japanese-held Morrow Island, he races across enemy waters in a cutting-edge torpedo racer—only to discover the island has already fallen. Captured alongside a wounded Marine, Spy Smasher uncovers an unexpected ally: the island's native population, who refuse to abandon their American allies despite the occupation. Together with these determined fighters, Spy Smasher must organize a resistance and confront the Japanese general responsible for the island's capture.

When a criminal mastermind seizes the city weather-man's experimental purple mist device, he launches a crime spree that plunges the metropolis into impenetrable darkness—but only Honest John and his gang can see through their special goggles. Bulletman and Bulletgirl race to stop the blackout terror, but find themselves helpless and blinded as the crooks loot the city and capture their own. Can the fearless duo overcome a weapon that strips away their greatest advantage?

When beautiful young women begin mysteriously aging to death in mere minutes, Minute Man [Jack Weston] must uncover the twisted connection between Dr. Feit, the sculptress Malva Stone, and a string of gruesome murders tied together by broken hourglasses and a fiendish chemical plot. Racing against time itself, the speedster hero closes in on a conspiracy that preys on the city's most glamorous girls—but the truth behind the sands of time proves far more sinister than anyone suspected.

Crime has gone to school—and Mr. Scarlet finds himself racing against time when his ward Pinky deliberately gets arrested to infiltrate a sinister "Crime College" that's turning young criminals into masters of their craft. As Pinky goes deeper undercover in a warehouse full of professors teaching robbery and murder, the stakes climb dangerously higher, with the Dean closing in on the truth and Mr. Scarlet forced to crack the case before his plan unravels completely.