Military Comics #30

In the tense skies over the Chinese front, Blackhawk investigates a brutal attack on a hospital, uncovering a chilling mystery: Japanese soldiers with metal electrodes fused to their skulls, seemingly immune to fear or pain. As the Allied command scrambles to understand the source of this terrifying new tactic, one name surfaces—Dr. Koro, a figure whispered to be the architect of this inhuman war machine.

In the jungles of Bataan, captured American soldiers are given a deadly twist of mercy—released with just twelve hours to vanish into the wild, knowing the Japanese Army will hunt them down. With a bounty offered for their deaths, one of their own, the elusive Sniper, becomes both a target and a ghost in the undergrowth.

When a soldier disguises himself as a woman to follow his commanding officer into the desert, he stumbles upon Aladdin's Lamp—and a genie who works split shifts. What begins as a simple rescue mission spirals into chaos when the soldier's disguise attracts the very kidnappers the genie "helpfully" summoned, leading him straight into a desert kingdom where nothing is quite what it seems. With the lamp mysteriously vanishing at the crucial moment, our hero must rely on wits rather than wishes to navigate a tangle of mistaken identities and conflicting claims.

Newsreel Norris thinks the Pacific theater is beneath him—a "penny-ante war" compared to the European action he's covered—until a dying soldier's final request forces him aboard a PT boat headed straight into combat off Salandua Bay. As Norris obsesses over getting the perfect shot while the skippers Perry and Paul fight Japanese destroyers and transports, his priorities begin to shift in ways neither he nor they expect. It's a wartime tale about a cameraman who learns that some stories matter more than the pictures themselves.

Joe Longknife of the Assiniboin tribe volunteers for the Army after Pearl Harbor, eager to strike back at the Japanese. When his platoon is surrounded in the South Pacific jungle during an island advance, he volunteers for a dangerous solo mission to break through enemy lines, warn the base, and call for reinforcements. Using his natural hunting skills and combat prowess, Longknife fights his way through the Japanese encirclement to complete his mission and save his trapped comrades.