Smash Comics #31

In Syria, war correspondent Happy teams up with his reluctant sidekick Bud and a rival journalist, Sue Saunders, to uncover a mysterious French surveillance device hidden inside a giant statue of Monsieur le Rat. As tensions rise and secrets surface, the trio must navigate suspicion and shifting loyalties in a world where even the most innocent-looking monuments might be hiding the truth.

In the shadowed halls of a wartime defense plant, Hugh and Bozo pursue two spies responsible for a deadly ambush. With the stakes rising, they’re drawn into a race to stop the kidnappers from forcing a scientist to build a devastating new explosive.

Rookie Rankin finds himself in hot water when his old nemesis Burly Monahan—freshly released on parole—shows up at his home with guns blazing, prompting a wild chase that takes him from the kitchen floor to the streets and beyond. As Rookie pursues Monahan on a borrowed motorcycle, he winds up tangled with the criminal's gang at a remote house, where quick thinking and a handful of pepper help even the odds. With Sgt. Burns and Riley arriving on the scene, the real battle begins to sort out who's chasing whom.

In the icy isolation of Snow Valley, young movie star Micky Keene and Carol Martin find themselves in peril when criminals plot to kidnap them for ransom—only to face the sudden arrival of Wildfire, who swiftly intervenes to protect them.