Military Comics #39

When a Blackhawk plane crashes during a daring bombing run to stop the Japanese advance in China, the pilot is mysteriously healed by a woman claiming to serve Kwan-Yin, goddess of mercy—but when the retreating enemy seizes the sacred jade statue as a hostage to prevent pursuit, Blackhawk must devise a dangerous solo plan to recover it before both the goddess and the Chinese people's faith are lost. With the clock ticking and multiple forces closing in, he infiltrates the enemy's own headquarters to negotiate for something far more precious than jade.

A theater hopeful named Choo Choo La Moe thinks she's landed a dramatic role in a play called "Waves of Tomorrow," only to discover the "part" is actually a job demonstrating hair-curling products at a department store—and things quickly spiral into comedic chaos. What follows is a series of mishaps involving faulty curlers, an accidental store disaster, and a modeling opportunity that slips away just when she needs it most. A 1945 humor story that reminds us that show business rarely goes according to plan.

Private Dogtag gets a curious assignment from the captain: head up to Haunted Mountain and round up a gang of notorious historical villains—Jesse James, John Dillinger, Bluebeard, and Jack the Ripper—who've been terrorizing the town of Gravestone and seem to be hiding in the mountain's mysteries. What starts as a straightforward manhunt becomes decidedly stranger when Dogtag discovers clues suggesting these "criminals" might not be quite what they appear to be. It's a 1945 humor yarn by Al Stahl that leans hard into absurdity and misdirection.

When Ezra Jones is banned from the school picnic after causing a ruckus with Principal Quizzenberry, he hatches a scheme to deliver ice cream to the event—giving him the perfect excuse to crash the party and win back his girl Myrna before his rival Dean can make a move. What follows is a chaotic cascade of mishaps involving missing sandwiches, borrowed swimming trunks, and increasingly frantic rescue attempts that somehow, against all odds, turn Ezra into an unlikely hero in Myrna's eyes.

When a desperate rescue mission to retrieve shipwrecked men turns into a deadly ambush on the Limnios Islands, PT boat operators Perry and Paul find themselves trapped behind enemy lines—and forced to make an impossible choice to survive. As the Japanese demand they lure another American vessel into their trap using the radio, Paul must navigate a dangerous game of wits, using everything he knows about code and his captors' rigid thinking to stay alive long enough for rescue. It's a mission of cunning over firepower, where the smallest detail—a subtle message encoded in Morse—might mean the difference between victory and slaughter.