Police Comics #124

T-Man Pete Trask heads to Japan with a dangerous assignment: carry fake military plans to trap Mr. Takada, a suspected spy leaking secrets to the Russians, then follow him to his contact. What starts as a straightforward operation spirals into a brutal fight with sumo wrestlers, a deadly underwater confrontation with the enigmatic "Red Mermaid," and a desperate race to stop a Russian submarine before it completes its sinister mission. This is pure spy-versus-espionage action wrapped in Cold War paranoia and Pacific intrigue.

Detective Alan Sykes investigates a murder where the evidence points in two directions at once—a man found dead with an alibi that seems almost too perfect to break. When Sykes examines the body and the crime scene, he discovers a crucial detail that will expose the truth behind who really fired the fatal shot. This locked-room mystery hinges on one overlooked clue that changes everything.

Ken Shannon takes on a tangled case when a woman named Sherry Westbury hires him to break up her half-brother Newton's affair with a gold-digger named Arlene Sandler—but when a handwriting expert turns up dead and Ken finds himself caught between Newton, Roxas the bookie, and a mysterious "somebody" who wants him off the case, he realizes he's stumbled onto something far deadlier than a love triangle. With assassins on his tail and bodies piling up, Ken has to uncover who's pulling the strings before his own number comes up.

Police Sergeant Ed Rourke stands over a corpse in the city morgue, tormented by the knowledge that his own actions put this man on the slab—his estranged brother Al, a career criminal who never escaped the streets despite Ed's attempts to stay impartial in his duty. As Ed's mind drifts back through years of painful encounters—a poolroom arrest, a prison sentence, shadowy dealings with dangerous associates—he confronts the terrible weight of the choices that led both brothers to this moment.