Contact Comics #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Rehearsal for War," Dennis uses his knack for decoding secret Japanese radio transmissions to uncover a sabotage plot threatening the Allied invasion of the Japanese homeland. With help from his friend Moki and the Golden Eagle, he tracks down the source of the broadcasts, leading to a tense mission to shut down the dangerous operation. The story, illustrated with crisp detail by Rudy Palais, captures the urgency of wartime espionage, while the cover by L. B. Cole delivers a striking visual of the era’s high-stakes drama.
In the final months of World War II, young radio operator Dennis uncovers a dangerous network of enemy transmissions sabotaging the Allied invasion of Japan. With the help of his friend Moki and the mysterious Golden Eagle, he races to track down the hidden radio station before its broadcasts can turn the tide.
In the tense final months of war, Black Venus races against time to rescue Bill, her ally and friend, after learning he’s been captured and imprisoned by the Japanese in a concentration camp. With courage and resolve, she sets out on a perilous mission to reach him before his ordeal becomes irreversible.
At the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics in Florida, carefully selected cadres undergo intensive training at a sprawling 8,000-square-mile war theatre where they learn everything from fighter interception and precision bombing to air support operations—all under conditions that mirror actual combat. Under the guidance of battle-hardened instructors, students train 12 to 18 hours daily in simulated raids, complete with mobile units, camouflaged bases, and surprise attacks designed to prepare them for the real theaters of war ahead. This documentary-style account reveals how AAFSAT has perfected the dress rehearsal for warfare itself.
This 1945 non-fiction account spotlights the Air Transport Command's vital wartime mission: ferrying planes, supplies, and personnel across six continents and four oceans in all conditions to support Allied forces wherever needed. From rescue operations in frozen Quebec to delivering emergency serum to liberated European cities, and even reuniting servicemen with their families, the ATC pilots prove themselves as indispensable to victory as any combat flyer. Their work ranges from transporting world leaders like Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to humble mail runs and mercy flights that save countless lives on the battlefield.
At a Jacksonville air station, a student pilot returns from training to discover a loose five-hundred-pound bomb rattling in the bomb bay of his Grumman Avenger—one wrong vibration away from detonation. Cmd. McKnight springs into action, taking the dangerous aircraft aloft to attempt a solution that could save the base and everyone on it. This wartime tale captures the kind of quiet heroism that keeps the home front safe, as told in this true account from 1945.
Trig, a Texas-born pilot with the U.S. Air Corps, is tasked with an urgent mission: infiltrate occupied France and retrieve vital intelligence from a secret agent under Nazi surveillance. But when Trig lands behind enemy lines and makes contact, nothing is quite what it seems—and a deadly double has other plans for him.
In "null," set against the high-stakes skies of the Pacific War, the Japanese devise a bold strategy to target Tommy and his squadron, aiming to capture Tommy himself to disrupt their efforts. With the fate of vital shipping lanes hanging in the balance, the mission becomes a tense game of pursuit and evasion.
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Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics #94 (2014), Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] (2017)
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