Keen Detective Funnies #9

Red Dolan, a reporter for the City Press, is kidnapped by the notorious Red Hood Gang and brought to their hideout, where he learns he's been marked for execution—the gang claims he's been writing too much about their recent murders. Thinking fast, Red overpowers a guard, steals a hood to blend in, and turns their own tear gas against them, trapping the entire gang in a sealed room. With the criminals blinded and helpless, he rounds them up and delivers them to the police, ready to file the story of a lifetime.

The Clock, a masked vigilante prowling the city, has J. Perry Getmore squarely in his sights—and the police, led by their captain, are determined to catch him red-handed. When the Clock leaves a calling card promising to strike at the wealthy businessman's home, the officers set an ambush that seems destined to finally bring the mysterious criminal to justice. But beneath the mask lies a surprising truth that will force even the captain to reckon with whose side justice is really on.

Jo takes a fifty-dollar ride to Chesterton, but the job turns sour when he finds a dead gangster in the trunk. With the police on the case, he’s caught in a tense game of cat and mouse as a trap is set to catch the rest of the gang.

When a money peddler turns up dead in the swamps, F.B.I. Special Agent Grant Gordon takes on a case involving a ruthless counterfeit gang flooding the country with expertly forged bills. Tracing the engraving and paper leads, Gordon and his partner Carter uncover a hidden message encoded in the currency itself—one that could expose the criminals' secret hideout and reveal the fate of a missing engraver. It's a tense race against time as the agents close in on the operation before the gang can silence its captive.