National Comics #59

When Dandina visits old friend Lassie with a gift for her cat, Lassie mistakes a glittering bracelet in Dandina’s luggage for a collar—only to watch in horror as the cat bolts with it. With the neighborhood kids rallying to track down the runaway feline, the mystery deepens when Dandina’s fiancé Pablo arrives, and the truth behind the bracelet begins to unravel.

Sally O'Neil, a policewoman, arrives at a newly opened parking lot near headquarters—only to discover it's a front for a con run by the Smiling Swede and his crook Max, who are taking cash from parkers and then selling their cars cheap to unsuspecting buyers. When Sally realizes her own vehicle is about to be sold out from under her, she crashes the operation and gets captured for her trouble. Trapped and running out of time, Sally must find a way to turn the tables on the Swede's crew and expose their racket before they make their escape.

Private detective Steve Wood takes on a seemingly lucrative assignment from the mysterious Mr. Grimm J. Bones—deliver an envelope to the captain of a barge called the Lorena by midnight—but danger lurks at every turn as shots ring out and Bones himself falls. When Wood tracks the case to the harbor to complete the job, he uncovers a dangerous waterfront insurance swindle involving dynamite, murder, and a double-cross that nearly costs him his life. A tense tale of deception and quick thinking from National Comics.

When a haunted doll house arrives at Granny Gumshoe's door, she and her companion Lippy discover a five-inch-tall intruder stealing from her wall safe—and he's armed with a mysterious molecule flashlight that can shrink people to miniature size. Granny sets a trap to catch the tiny thief and force a confession about who sent him, setting the stage for a clever bit of payback against the mastermind behind the scheme.

In "The Australian Magic Murders," Jonas, exiled to the outback and transformed by his time in Australia, returns to confront his past with deadly precision—his boomerang mastery, once mistaken for magic, now a weapon of vengeance. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, the story unfolds with a quiet menace, rooted in betrayal and the weight of a life rebuilt in silence.