Gwandanaland Comics #445

Jack’s pilot’s license is revoked after Cotton Lee crashes his plane, leaving Jack desperate to keep his sister from her crush and send her to private school. When the mysterious Teekeela offers him a high-stakes flying job in Mexico carrying gold, it seems like the perfect escape—until he discovers the cargo isn’t what it appears to be.

In "null," Jack, a disgraced pilot, is forced into a deadly gamble when Baron Bloodsoe demands he smuggle munitions—only to have the Baron try to kill him by pushing him from a plane without a parachute. Instead, Jack grabs the henchman Slitz, and the two descend on Slitz’s parachute, setting off a chain of events that leads Jack back to the States and a chance to reclaim his license. Now working for the border patrol, Jack finds himself drawn into a far bigger threat: the Baron’s plan to hijack a $200,000 stratosphere airliner and bring aliens into the U.S.

In "null," the Baron and his partner Teekeela unleash a deadly gas aboard a stratosphere airliner, sparing only Dixie—whose unexpected presence sparks the Baron’s obsession. With the border patrol hunting the fugitive, Jack follows a trail of clues that leads to a hidden hideout, while Dixie’s daring photographs of the cockpit instruments become the key to the mystery. As the chase reaches its peak, the Baron escapes in the very plane he once used to terrorize the skies, leaving Dixie trapped in the wreckage of his own scheme.

In "null," Jo finds herself caught in a web of betrayal when Cotton, her partner, vanishes after eloping with Jack's sister Jill. Drawn into a dangerous scheme, Cotton becomes a pilot for the enigmatic Baron, only to be abandoned when the Baron's plane is spotted by border patrol. Jack, armed with a special pressure suit, takes to the skies to intercept the fleeing airliner, his mission clear but the cost uncertain.

In "null," Cotton is left behind by his smuggler allies, barely surviving a crash landing in a stolen plane. When Jack arrives to confront him, Cotton turns on him, hijacking Jack’s aircraft and fleeing to the gang’s hidden base. Jack follows, closing in on the hideout, but the chase ends in tragedy when a desperate escape leads to an accidental shot.

In "null," Jack returns to the skies of Gwandanaland, only to be rejected by Dixie and Jill after they learn he was the one who killed Cotton. As he seeks to erase the scar that marks his past, a doctor with his own secret affection for Dixie uncovers Jack’s true intentions during a tense operation.

In the quiet aftermath of surgery, Jack learns that Dr. Medic is deeply in love with Dixie—only to hear Dixie say she’s marrying him. Trying to move on, Jack takes a risky new role as a test pilot for the X-13, chasing the sky to escape what’s behind him. The story unfolds with a quiet ache, where love, loss, and the roar of engines collide in a single, bittersweet moment.

In "null," Jack, a test pilot trying to outrun his past, finds himself unexpectedly caught between two women’s attention—just as he’s about to push the X-13 to its limits. A sudden 9-G power dive sends him into darkness, leaving his fate—and the flight’s outcome—unresolved.

In "null," Jack faces a dangerous test flight that turns deadly when a bomb sabotages the plane, leaving him to unravel the mystery behind the attack. As tensions rise and allies like Gale and Bunny urge caution, Jack’s determination leads him into a trap that tests his resolve and forces him to confront a hidden enemy.

Smilin' Jack finds himself caught in a whirlwind of mistaken identity on a remote island, where he’s wrongly believed to be the legendary Powder—enough to land him a forced marriage to the fiery Boona Goo. With the island’s skies thick with danger and his only escape route a stolen plane, Jack barely makes it off the island before Limehouse, a gruff prison guard with his own mistaken assumptions, recaptures him.

In "null," Jack finds himself trapped in a brutal sulphur mine alongside Fat Stuff, forced to labor under the watch of Limehouse. When the imprisoned Head and The Claw unexpectedly reappear, the fragile tension in the prison shifts—hinting at a deeper conspiracy beneath the surface.