Modern Comics #56

When peace-loving Skip Logan is framed and tricked into commanding a slave ship for ruthless empire-builders on the remote Bavalan Islands, he's forced to round up native laborers for a sinister trading post—unaware that his betrayal has already reached the Blackhawks. As the castaways Lula and a heroic native chief are rescued by the legendary team and brought to the islands, the stage is set for a collision between greed and justice in these supposedly untouched seas.

Ex-Private Dogtag takes a correspondence course in law, convinced he's about to become the greatest legal mind in the country—and his first opportunity to prove it comes when he's arrested for jaywalking and ends up defending a notorious gangster in court. His chaotic courtroom antics somehow manage to impress the judge enough to earn him a real legal future, though not quite in the way the course promised.

Choo Choo Lamoe lands a Hollywood Reporter pass and gets exclusive access to the studios, only to stumble onto scandalous secrets about three of Tinseltown's biggest stars. When she takes over a radio broadcast to spill what she's discovered, her sensational exposé sets off a chain of chaos that tests whether fame is worth the trouble she's created.

Will Bragg gets summoned for jury duty in a case against Bugsie the Burglar, but a criminal accomplice arrives with bribe money meant to sway the jurors—and Bragg, not realizing what he's been handed, starts using the cash to pay his mounting court fines. When the scheme unravels in the courtroom, chaos erupts as mobsters open fire, forcing Bragg and everyone involved into a wild scramble for damage control. It's a laugh-out-loud romp through small-town justice, where a well-meaning juror's obliviousness accidentally upends a criminal's entire operation.