Golden Lad #4

Golden Lad springs into action when the Minstrel—a musical criminal who's been orchestrating a crime wave across the city—issues a poetic challenge directly to the young hero, inviting him to a heist disguised as a riddle in the newspaper. With his super-intellect, Golden Lad cracks the cryptic verses and races to intercept the villain and his gang at a high-society masquerade ball, where the Minstrel plans to make off with the guests' jewels and valuables. What follows is a thrilling confrontation between the golden-hearted hero and the versifying rogue, as Golden Lad fights to stop the Minstrel's latest theft before the villain can escape with his loot.

Enoch Sly, a tinker with peculiar powers, crosses paths with a wealthy man who has given his vast estate to his ungrateful grandchildren and now finds himself treated as an invisible nuisance in his own home. When the old man hints at a secret fortune he's been holding back, his greedy heirs suddenly shower him with attention—only to discover that a tinker's gifts always come with a curious price. A delightful tale of comeuppance wrapped in magic and mischief from the Golden Age.

When editor Jon Dart and his office boy Dusty visit a movie set aboard ship, a stunt goes terribly wrong—a hand grenade rigged to the rigging kills actor Gil Gordon. Swiftarrow springs into action to investigate the murder, but when a confession appears and another death follows, the detective must look beyond the obvious suspect to uncover the real killer's motive. With Dusty's sharp eye for detail, Swiftarrow closes in on the truth hidden among Hollywood's ambitions and greed.

The Kid Wizards think they've caught a lucky break when a model plane club arrives in the mail—but their daily spotting reports unknowingly feed a spy ring passing vital aircraft information to the enemy. When the boys discover the truth, they hatch a plan to catch the traitors red-handed and turn their model planes into unexpected weapons of redemption on Willow Street.