Military Comics #24

In the heat of war, Blackhawk is entrusted with a vital mission: deliver a mysterious envelope to Intelligence in Honolulu. The dying officer’s final warning echoes—protect it from Sandoz, "The Man With the Heavy Glasses." As Blackhawk journeys through danger, he must keep both the envelope and the enigmatic Sandoz under control, even as the tension mounts and the stakes grow deadly.

The Death Patrol pulls off an audacious aerial maneuver they're calling "The Super Scooper Dive"—a dive bomb attack unlike anything readers have seen before. With the squad lined up and ready, Del Van Dyne, Boris, Gramps, Hank, King Hotintot, Jackie, and Yogi execute their daring plan in this wild four-page romp that proves sometimes the most unexpected tactics are the ones that work.

The Sniper undertakes his most dangerous mission yet when he learns that a captured American flyer faces execution in a Manila prison—but he's not the only hunter on the trail. Suratai, a deadly assassin of the Black Dragon Society, has sworn a blood oath to find and kill the Sniper, and he's orchestrated a trap that tests every ounce of cunning and skill both men possess. As the Sniper fights to rescue his countryman and escape the closing net, he discovers that Suratai is far more than a formidable opponent—he's a rival worthy of his intellect and resolve.

Private Dogtag believes in ghosts—so when a fast-talking contortionist named Backa Bom Bey convinces the gullible soldier that he's destined to become one, Dogtag doesn't think twice about making Bom Bey his life insurance beneficiary. What follows is a darkly comic scheme that leaves Dogtag convinced he's actually died and become a specter, setting the stage for a supernatural reckoning neither Bom Bey nor his accomplice saw coming.

Under the command of Captain L. Gatch, an American battleship—crewed mostly by inexperienced recruits and reservists—faces its first true test when it engages a relentless Japanese air and naval assault in the southwest Pacific. Through three successive waves of enemy attacks, the green crew's gunnery proves devastating, downing dozens of warplanes and later facing off against a numerically superior fleet in a fierce close-quarters battle off Guadalcanal. Based on actual intelligence gathered from U.S. Naval sources, this is the story of how an untested ship and her determined sailors turned back the enemy's fiercest onslaught.