Crack Comics #60

When Lance Gallant and his friends arrive in the quiet town of Vine Springs for a country picnic, they find a murder has just turned the place upside down—and a lynch mob is already forming around the accused killer, Jed Troy. Captain Triumph must fight through the angry crowd to stop the hanging, but rescuing Troy only makes him look guilty of aiding a murderer, landing him and his allies behind bars. Now the real killer is still loose, and Captain Triumph has to clear his name while solving a crime that reaches deeper into Vine Springs' corruption than anyone suspected.

Cartoonist-detective Pen Miller draws a mysterious figure called Mr. Mystery into his newspaper cartoon, baiting an underworld racketeer into revealing himself—and Miller's willing to put himself in the line of fire to flush him out. When the gang makes their move, Miller finds himself cornered at the Green Parrot dive, where the truth about who's really running the protection racket finally comes to light. It's a clever scheme that proves sometimes the best way to catch a crook is to become one yourself.

Inkie gets hired as a housing inspector after a young girl brings her defective doll house to the city commissioner's office—and discovers that the Tootsie-Wootsie Company, run by Mandrake, has been cutting corners with cheap materials to boost profits. When Inkie inspects their factory, Mandrake and his worker Louie try to silence him, but the inspector turns the tables and forces them to upgrade their construction standards for good.