Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics #1

In a 1940 tale from *Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics*, chemist Harry Thurston accidentally transforms his left hand into a living water spout during a lab experiment—only for Bob Blake to suffer a similar fate when he’s called in, his whole body turning into a spouting stream. After a counter-active chemical restores them, Blake chooses to embrace the change, injecting himself with the formula and becoming Hydroman to face a wave of alien invaders led by the enigmatic Great One.

Jimmie and Pinhead catch a ride on a taxi answering a three-alarm fire call, but when the siren startles Pinhead, he loses his balance and tumbles into the street—right into the path of danger. Policeman Hogan races to the scene and springs into action in a desperate race against time to save the injured boy and get him to the hospital.

Captain Gordon Fife is summoned by the Minister of War, Lorenz, with urgent news: enemy forces are plotting to corrupt the army and cripple Kovnia's border defenses, and Lorenz believes the neighboring nation of Livonia is behind the scheme. Fife must meet with a secret agent and uncover the conspiracy threatening the young King Nicky and Princess Regent Carol's rule, all while navigating treachery within the palace itself.