Four Color #4

In a 1942 adventure from Four Color #4, Jack’s flying dreams are grounded after Cotton Lee crashes his plane and gets him suspended. With his sister smitten by Cotton and his future uncertain, Jack sees a chance to escape when the mysterious Teekeela offers him a high-stakes flying job in Mexico—only to discover the cargo he’s transporting is far more dangerous than he ever imagined.

In the 1942 adventure "null," pilot Jack stands firm against Baron Bloodsoe’s smuggling scheme, only to be thrown from a plane without a parachute—only to survive by seizing the henchman Slitz and using his chute. After clearing his name with the help of an old man, Jack joins the border patrol, unaware that Bloodsoe is planning a daring hijacking of a $200,000 stratosphere airliner to bring aliens into the U.S.

In the skies over a war-torn world, a rogue aviator and his mysterious accomplice unleash a deadly gas aboard a stratosphere airliner, leaving only Dixie alive—her survival no accident, but a twisted mark of affection. As Jack races to track down the Baron’s secret base with the border patrol, Dixie secretly captures crucial images of the cockpit instruments during a smuggling run, her photographs becoming the only lead in a high-stakes chase through the clouds.

In "null," Jo finds her brother Cotton missing after he vanishes following a secret elopement with Jack's sister Jill. Drawn into a dangerous web of deception, Cotton takes a risky job flying for the mysterious Baron, only to be abandoned when the Baron's plane is spotted by border patrol. Jack, armed with a specialized pressure suit, takes to the skies to intercept the fleeing airliner, launching a daring aerial assault to stop the smugglers.

In the 1942 adventure "null," pilot Jack and his partner Cotton find themselves stranded when Cotton betrays him, leaving him to survive a crash. After Jack lands and confronts Cotton at the smugglers' hideout, a tense chase unfolds—ending in tragedy when Jack, trying to stop Cotton, accidentally shoots him.

In this 1942 adventure, Jack returns to the smugglers' circle only to be rejected by Dixie and Jill after they learn he was the one who killed Cotton. Seeking to change his fate, he undergoes surgery to alter his scarred face—only for the doctor, secretly in love with Dixie, to discover Jack’s true motive while he’s under the knife.

In a quiet moment of recovery, Jack learns that Dr. Medic harbors deep feelings for Dixie—feelings she’s about to return. As the news settles, Jack makes a bold move to move on, taking a dangerous job as a test pilot for the X-13. The story unfolds with quiet tension and emotional weight, tracing the shifting bonds between three people bound by love, duty, and the skies.

Jack, a test pilot trying to forget love, finds himself caught between two women the moment he starts his new job—just as he’s about to take the X-13 on a dangerous test flight. When the plane plunges into a 9-G power dive, Jack’s world goes black, leaving his fate uncertain.

In the tense aftermath of a near-fatal test flight, Jack faces a new threat when sabotage strikes during his next mission—his plane rigged with a bomb, his identity stolen by a shadowy replacement, and a dangerous mystery unfolding in the skies above. With allies Gale and Bunny urging caution, Jack must uncover the traitor behind the attack before another life is lost.