Captain Midnight #12

In "The Puzzle of the Flying Houses!" from Captain Midnight #12 (1943), Captain Albright takes to the skies in his custom P-38, only to witness a surreal sight: houses drifting through the night sky. Before he can investigate, he’s ambushed by the sinister Nazi agent Zauer, who forces him into a deadly trap and casts him into a deep quarry—where the real mystery begins.

Captain Midnight's experimental backward-flying plane—the Flying Crab—takes an unexpected journey when his assistant Ichabod Mudd accidentally pilots it across the Mediterranean and crash-lands near Rome, falling straight into enemy hands. Now Captain Midnight must fly into Axis territory to rescue his stranded partner and prevent the revolutionary aircraft from becoming Nazi property, only to find himself trapped by Baron Witzenblank and his Italian forces. With both men captured and the revolutionary flying wing at risk of falling into enemy hands, Captain Midnight faces his most dangerous test yet in the shadow of ancient Rome's ruins.

In "The Sinister Angels!" from Captain Midnight #12 (1943), Captain Midnight finds himself entangled in a chilling mystery deep in the jungle along the Peru-Brazil border, where ancient native tales of vengeful mountain angels take on a terrifying new life.

When the merchant freighter Agnes goes down in the mid-Atlantic, the sole survivor claims Nazi bombers attacked—impossible according to the Navy, since no land-based aircraft could operate that far out to sea. Captain Midnight believes the story and races to New York to investigate, but before he can get answers, an Axis agent strikes with lethal intent. With Captain Murphy's dying words as his only lead, Captain Midnight heads out to sea to uncover the secret that the Nazis will kill to protect.