Captain Midnight #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Double Trouble in Tokyo," Captain Albright and his allies are en route to Alexandria, Egypt, when they spot a military plane spiraling out of control. The plane crashes, and upon investigating the wreckage, Captain Albright finds the crew dead—killed, it seems, by vampire bats. The eerie discovery sets off a mystery that stretches across continents, with art by Carl Pfeufer capturing the tension and danger of wartime espionage.
When a saboteur's careless stumble sends Captain Midnight's secret radio-controlled aircraft flying uncontrollably out of Nevada, enemy agents spot it falling near the forest—and snatch it before the Captain can recover it. In "Double Trouble in Tokyo," Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright] must pursue the stolen model across the Pacific single-handed, racing against time to keep America's most vital weapon from reaching enemy hands in the heart of Tokyo itself. With an unexpected stowaway along for the ride, the greatest fighter takes on his most dangerous mission yet.
The Nazis broadcast a bold bounty on Captain Midnight's head, but the offer draws their own spies into a trap—one that nearly catches Sergeant Twilight instead when the gang mistakes him for their target. While Captain Midnight springs his ambush, Sergeant Twilight must fight his way out of a closet and prove himself against the enemy agents before the night is through.
In "The Beasts That Flew Like Birds!" from Captain Midnight #5 (1943), Captain Albright and his companions are en route to Alexandria, Egypt, when they witness a military plane spiraling out of control. After the crash, they investigate the wreckage and find the crew dead—each victim seemingly slain by a terrifying swarm of vampire bats.
Little Sneezer lands a job assisting a mysterious chemist, but his unusual sneeze—which unknowingly contains a powerful chemical formula—catches the attention of foreign agents who kidnap him to harness his extraordinary ability. When Sneezer accidentally swallows a soap bubble, his sneeze transforms into something even more remarkable, leading to a climactic confrontation that ultimately reveals his true value to the war effort.
Captain Midnight springs into action when sabotaged war bonds dipped in phosphorus begin catching fire in American homes, leading him to infiltrate a gypsy carnival where the Nazi agent Von Twerpitz is orchestrating the scheme. Outnumbered and captured, our hero must rely on his quick thinking and gadgetry to survive Von Twerpitz's deadly trap and stop the villain's plan to rain incendiary bonds on the city from above.
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Reprinted in Captain Midnight Archives #1 (2013), Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] (2017), Gwandanaland Comics #1963 (2018)
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