Mask Comics #2

In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, wounded veteran Gordon and his comrade Red return home—only to find their fight isn't over. Donning a secret identity, Gordon becomes a masked crusader, tracking down two dangerous criminals who've slipped through the cracks of a war-weary world.

In a remote prospector’s hut deep in the Rockies, Jake and his partner Spots strike gold, but greed quickly turns deadly. As Spots plots to eliminate Jake and bury the evidence, he becomes increasingly paranoid—first of the dog, then of wolves, and finally of his own unraveling fate. When he triggers an avalanche to erase all traces of his crime, the mountain itself becomes his undoing.

Hanson Riordan, a man recently killed in a traffic accident, finds himself in the afterlife where he’s mistaken for Gus Gorilla, a criminal due to be collected. The Collector, a mysterious figure from the Sands of Time Department, reveals that Riordan’s accidental intervention saved him from death—and now, to restore cosmic balance, Riordan must return to Earth as a new Collector. As he’s sent back to his body, the story sets up his transformation into a supernatural enforcer of fate, with Gus Gorilla’s fate now hanging in the balance.

In "null," the enigmatic magician Merlin takes it upon himself to bring down Duke, a ruthless gang leader who just murdered a night watchman during a robbery at one of Merlin’s own performances. With the city on edge and Duke’s gang still at large, Merlin’s decision to step forward as a vigilante sets a dangerous game in motion.