Captain Midnight #46

Pilot Pete tries to calm a nervous first-time flyer before her maiden airplane ride, offering reassurance about safety—until his logic takes an unexpected turn that leaves her (and readers) questioning his reasoning.

When a Danish war criminal named Major Fogge escapes custody, Captain Midnight answers the call to track him across continents. With only a cryptic clue about "buried spices" to go on, the hero must piece together Fogge's trail from a ravaged European village to the neutral havens where Nazi and Fascist fugitives have fled. The hunt intensifies when Captain Midnight discovers that Fogge's stolen loot may be the key to his capture—but finding him first will test every ounce of the hero's ingenuity.

When Johnny Blair's plane engine suddenly cuts out mid-flight, he's forced to make a dead-stick landing—and Hangar Harry seizes the moment to teach him a crucial lesson in recognizing engine trouble before it happens. Through practical diagnosis and instruction on fuel mixtures, spark plugs, and exhaust symptoms, Johnny learns that a pilot needs to understand his aircraft's mechanics to fly safely and responsibly.

Henry Rockford's vision of a floating sky-city designed by Captain Albright seems destined for success—until a crooked mayor named Jessup seizes control and begins imprisoning colonists to extort their fortunes. When Captain Midnight arrives to investigate the silence from his friend Icky, he finds himself arrested and jailed alongside dozens of others caught in Jessup's scheme. Now the hero and the colonists must break free and restore Henry Rockford's utopian dream before Jessup disappears with his stolen fortune.