Heroic Comics #28

During the Pacific campaign of 1945, Brig. General Alfred Noble and Lt. Col. Banks orchestrate a daring amphibious assault on Emirau Island, a strategic position just 580 miles from the Japanese stronghold of Truk. Racing against the clock to secure the island before enemy reinforcements can arrive, the Marines launch their attack under cover of darkness, hoping to catch the Japanese off guard. What unfolds is a tense race between American speed and Japanese response, with the fate of the invasion hanging in the balance.

Major Howard takes on a swarm of Nazi fighters in a spectacular aerial duel, outmaneuvering a Messerschmitt through clever flying tactics while bomber crews watch from below. Outnumbered and determined, he presses his attack against overwhelming odds, racking up multiple kills before his ammunition runs dry. A thrilling wartime tale of a pilot who answers the call when his country needs him most.

Lt. Paul M. Koerner leads a daring armored advance deep into enemy territory, destroying German tanks and guns before pushing toward a heavily fortified Nazi command post in the Italian town of Cairo. With just a handful of soldiers and a tank, the American officer orchestrates an assault that forces the German officers to surrender—but one stubborn Hauptmann refuses to yield. When reinforcements finally arrive, Koerner and his men have managed to round up eighty bewildered Nazi prisoners, leaving them forever wondering how such a small American force pulled off what seemed impossible.

Lt. Richard T.G. Greenland, Sub Lt. Rodney G. Dove, Leading Signalman A.M. Ferrier, and Acting Leading Seaman J.M. Freel answer the call for four volunteers to pilot a new and dangerous British secret weapon—the human torpedo. After weeks of intensive training at a Mediterranean naval base, the men launch their first combat mission into the heavily defended harbor at Palermo, Sicily, targeting enemy warships with explosive warheads attached to their torpedo cylinders. The operation tests not only their courage, but their ability to survive behind enemy lines.

When the Music Master is summoned to appraise a rare manuscript at the museum, he arrives to find a far deadlier mystery unfolding—the curator has been murdered with an Egyptian dagger, and a priceless Stradivarius violin has vanished from a locked room. As John Wallace pieces together clues from a shadowy figure who played haunting violin music in the night, he must unmask a killer driven by a tragic past and obsession with reclaiming a lost instrument.

When Hydroman discovers that a rogue midget—cursed centuries ago by a medieval alchemist—has kidnapped the brilliant Professor Hargrove to force him into unlocking a formula for making gold, the hero must battle through waves of hired thugs and a sadistic torture chamber to rescue the scientist. Hydroman and his friend Rainbow Boy race against time to stop a centuries-old curse from claiming yet another victim. A thrilling clash of superpowers, greed, and an evil legacy that refuses to die.