Crack Comics #41

In "Everywhere at Once!" from Crack Comics #41, Captain Triumph faces a desperate race against time as he tries to save Lance, Kim, and Biff after their sailboat is swept into a storm and then stranded in the Sargasso Sea—trapped with no way to call for help.

After winning a school prize for his Homer's Odyssey composition, Beezy hatches a scheme to pitch his original movie scenario about shipwrecked sailors to a big-shot studio executive—complete with a theatrical one-man show performance that unfolds the entire adventure, from Mediterranean beaches to harem intrigue. What starts as a confident pitch quickly spirals into pure chaos as Beezy's over-the-top dramatics and the increasingly absurd plot twists test the studio head's patience and sanity. It's a hilarious send-up of ambitious young writers and the Hollywood pitch meeting, packed with slapstick humor and clever commentary on creative ambition.

Pen Miller, cartoonist detective, investigates why the city's hospitals suddenly can't get penicillin—and stumbles onto a ruthless scheme by the racketeer Soupy Dennis to corner the drug supply and sell it at an outrageous price to desperate doctors. Trapped in Dennis's plant alongside Mr. Arnt, the original manufacturer, Miller must find a way out before Dennis ties up his loose ends permanently.