Crack Comics #50

Captain Triumph faces a devious swindle when the vacation island of Saint Dunstan becomes ground zero for a brilliant con: Prince Narmax and his partner Truscott have been selling fraudulent keys to an empty safety deposit box, pocketing advance payments from gullible marks. When the scheme turns violent at an American bank and Lance and his companions trace the operation back to its source, Captain Triumph must unravel the scam and bring the con artists to justice on foreign soil—where American law holds no sway.

When a mouse named R. Rockbottom Rodent asks his old friend Inkie for help, the tiny human discovers that the residents of 66½ Park Avenue are being terrorized by Aldo, a cunning house cat who hunts them one by one. Inkie proposes a clever solution—but executing the plan proves far trickier than anyone expected, especially when Aldo catches wind of what's afoot.

Cartoonist-detective Pen Miller suspects that the man police arrested for the Vantry murder—Bugs Blomel—is innocent, but his editor forbids him from pursuing the story. When Miller spots the victim's widow, Mona Vantry, at a society party with the charming Tony Crews, his instincts kick in, and he uncovers a dangerous secret that could prove who the real killer is.

Floogy the Fiji learns that his younger brother Fuzzy claims a special diet and exercise routine has made him impossibly fast—fast enough to complete errands in minutes that should take hours. When Floogy grows suspicious and challenges Fuzzy to a race, he discovers the secret behind those superhuman speeds, leading to a comeuppance that leaves the boastful youngster in quite the predicament.

Wun Cloo, the Defective Detective, encounters the wanted criminal Bristle-Snout Bilge and makes a fateful decision about his reform—but when Wun Cloo heads to the park for peace and quiet, a case of mistaken identity involving a double gets him mixed up with foreign agents who mistake him for the inventor Bumble. What follows is a wild mix-up that reveals sometimes the smallest coincidence can interrupt even the grandest scheme.

In "null," Bertram Bumble wakes up to find his dream of being mistaken for a famous inventor has startlingly come true—only to discover his real-life double is a wandering hobo, not the genius he imagined. The story unfolds with playful confusion as the two men, identical in every way, cross paths in a twist that blurs identity and chance.