Comic Cavalcade #29
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Machine of Schemes" delivers a gripping wartime flashback in this 1948 issue of Comic Cavalcade, as Johnny recounts his harrowing experience aboard a sunken vessel during World War II. Years later, the same Nazi submarine resurfaces off the coast of Venezuela, now a mechanical menace threatening modern shipping. Written, drawn, and inked by Howard Purcell, the story blends wartime memory with a present-day mystery, all rendered with the crisp detail of Irwin Hasen’s cover art.
In "Machine of Schemes," Wonder Woman teams up with Professor Calculus to safeguard a revolutionary super-computer designed to solve intricate problems—only for the device to be stolen by the cunning Crime-Brain Doone, who plans to use it to crack Fort Knox. The race is on to stop the theft before the machine’s power falls into the wrong hands.
In "The Lovely Lady," Johnny recalls a harrowing WWII ordeal when his ship was sunk by a Nazi submarine—now, years later, that same sub has resurfaced off the coast of Venezuela, threatening modern shipping. The story blends wartime memory with a haunting present-day mystery, anchored in the eerie return of a vessel from the past.
In "The Last Man Alive!", Jay Garrick wakes to a world eerily empty—no people, no sounds, just silence where life once thrived. The mysterious Star Sapphire, mistress of the 7th Dimension, has left him alone on Earth, and now he must uncover the reason behind her strange, solitary experiment.
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Reprinted in Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus #4 (2020)
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