Captain Midnight #16

Captain Midnight springs into action when he learns that Austrian villagers face execution by Nazi occupiers—but first, he must plant a weather-predicting device in enemy territory to help the Air Force target Nazi factories. Trapped behind enemy lines with his assistant Ichabod Mudd and caught between a military mission and a moral imperative, Captain Midnight devises an audacious plan involving a coffin, a Nazi funeral, and his trusty doom beam. Can the resourceful ace pull off the impossible and save both the village and the mission?

Captain Midnight discovers a hidden spy camp in the mountains and crashes during a firefight—only to come face-to-face with his old nemesis Von Togo, who's operating a sinister School for Sabotage right in the heart of America, training captured youngsters to become saboteurs. After being thrown into an abandoned mine shaft, Captain Midnight and his companions must infiltrate the school to stop Von Togo's plot and recover the stolen X-ray binoculars before they're used to locate the Captain's secret laboratory.

Sergeant Twilight springs into action when Captain Midnight heads to Washington and a butler and his criminal associates target the lab for a valuable television plane-landing apparatus that German operatives are willing to pay for. As Ichabod fights to keep the invention out of enemy hands, he discovers that brains—and a few well-placed mechanical traps—might be just as useful as superpowers in the end.

When a desperate woman crashes into Captain Midnight and pleads for help saving her husband from execution, the hero learns the truth: the man was framed by Nazi spies and a pardon has been issued—but a devastating flood has cut off all communications to the prison. With only minutes to spare, Captain Midnight attempts the impossible: he'll pilot an antique box-kite aircraft through a raging storm to deliver the pardon and stop an innocent man's death. It's a race against time, treacherous weather, and enemy fire in a fragile machine that was never meant for such a test.