Captain Midnight #65

When a Saturnian invasion force led by the villainous Xog strikes at America's atomic project, Captain Midnight must race against time to stop them—but Xog has a cunning trap waiting in his Nevada lab. Armed with a desperate gambit and a radioactive secret, Captain Midnight turns the tables on the alien invaders and pursues them across the battlefield, though his greatest challenge may still lie ahead.

Sergeant Twilight takes his sky typewriter—a contraption that prints messages in smoke across the sky—on a test flight, hoping to revolutionize aerial advertising. When he spots a skywriting plane below and decides to show off his invention by "finishing" the pilot's message, chaos erupts: his competitive stunt triggers a dogfight that sends both aircraft spiraling, and the malfunctioning typewriter creates such billowing smoke that it accidentally foils a gang of bank robbers hiding in the mountains. Though the day is saved and the criminals captured, Sergeant Twilight's grand plans for his invention go up in smoke—quite literally.

Pilot Pete fields a question about his fearlessness in the cockpit, explaining that he always carries a parachute for safety—which gives a young woman an idea about sending one to her brother who's just been arrested and needs to be "bailed out." A quick-witted gag that plays on the double meaning of the word in this 1948 humor tale.

Captain Albright and his companion Icky journey to the remote peak of Mt. Hami-La in Tibet to scout a location for a television relay station, only to find themselves under attack by mysterious forces—and later discovering a hidden shaft concealing a sinister operation. When they infiltrate the mountain's interior, they come face-to-face with Ivan Shark and his criminal scheme, forcing Captain Midnight into action to stop the plot and turn the tables on his adversaries.