Popular Comics #100

In "null," Jack and Downwind find themselves in a tense standoff with Gumbo Grabber, the uncle of Joy Beaverduck, whose rival crop-dusting operation has been threatening their livelihood. When two men vanish and Jack goes undercover, he’s captured and nearly crushed in a cotton baler—only for Joy, recovering from her own accident, to unexpectedly intervene with a crowbar, turning the tide in a sudden, chaotic confrontation.

In "Teenage Apartment House Burglars," a trio of delinquent teens and a sharp-tongued girl pull off a brazen break-in, stealing keys from a doorman to target vacant units. When a cop living in the building catches wind of the heist, he races to stop them—too late to prevent the crime, but not to track down the culprits. The story unfolds with tense pacing and a classic 1944 crime sensibility, as justice closes in, though not without a twist in the final tally.