Captain Midnight #4

When a pilot reports that gremlins sabotaged his landing gear, Captain Albright takes the bizarre claim seriously—and soon finds himself face-to-face with the mischievous creatures haunting Graham Field. Written by the team behind the series, this 1942 adventure blends wartime aviation suspense with a touch of whimsical mystery, as the line between pilot’s paranoia and real supernatural interference begins to blur.

When a switched package brings a time bomb into Captain Midnight's hands instead of its intended target—General Breon, chief of supply—Ichabod Mudd realizes his innocent mistake may have exposed a deadly Christmas plot. Sergeant Twilight springs into action to track down the conspirators, leading to a chaotic showdown at Krause the watchmaker's hideout as both the relentless vigilante and Captain Midnight himself close in on the assassins. With sabotaged "gifts" meant for America's military leaders, the race is on to stop the next bomb before it reaches its mark.

Captain Midnight arrives at Alaska's Siska Station on a routine weather-forecasting mission, only to discover that a suspicious avalanche has blocked the runway—and a dynamite detonator suggests sabotage. When his suspicions prove justified, he finds the station compromised by enemy agents, including the cunning villain Bushido, who has infiltrated the U.S. weather bureau to disrupt vital forecasting operations. Now outnumbered and surrounded by hostile forces, Captain Midnight must expose the conspiracy and stop Bushido's plot before more American bombers fall victim to sabotaged weather reports.

When the organ-grinder who owns Eustace the monkey gets drafted, Little Sneezer takes on babysitting duty—only to find his new pal dragged into trouble at the zoo, where a stubborn gorilla named Gargargle has gone on strike over tire rationing. When saboteurs dynamite the lions' cages to cause panic, Sneezer and Eustace witness a patriotic lesson unfold as an unlikely hero steps in to protect the zoo and its people.

When saboteurs strike a West Coast steel mill, Captain Midnight arrives just in time to witness a theft of vital war material—and discovers Japanese and Nazi operatives working together to steal America's precious scrap metal for the Axis. As Baron Junkman orchestrates a scheme to load barges with America's industrial lifeblood, Captain Midnight must stop the saboteurs' electro-magnet operation before an entire shipment reaches enemy hands. With his quick thinking and inventive gadgetry, Captain Midnight faces down the villainous Baron and his operatives in a high-stakes confrontation at the scrap-metal pile.