Smash Comics #39

When identical twins Sam and Dan Benson—presidents of rival colleges Wartmouth and Jale—discover each other at a football game, their years of bitter rivalry explode into gunfire. Midnight must whisk away the survivor before the mob tears him apart, only to discover the bullet graze has left him with complete amnesia. Now, with both schools demanding to claim him and a fortune hanging in the balance, Midnight and Doc Wackey must find a way to settle the mystery of his identity—all while chaos erupts both on the field and off.

Yankee Eagle parachutes into occupied Bataan on a secret War Department mission to locate the missing Lt. Graymore, only to be captured by Japanese forces after defending Filipino civilians from enemy fire. Imprisoned and aided by an unexpected ally with a dangerous agenda of his own, Yankee Eagle must fight his way back through the jungle, commandeer an enemy plane, and navigate a harrowing return to American lines—all while keeping his rescued officer alive.

Archie O'Toole needs a loan from a wealthy rajah, so he and his friends decide to court the rajah's daughter, Princess Fatima—a scheme that goes hilariously sideways when Fatima takes matters into her own hands with a romantic (and thoroughly disastrous) surprise. The whole plan unravels in slapstick fashion, but not before Fatima finds an entirely unexpected way to get rich.

When Rookie Rankin stumbles onto a theft at the Borgen Art Gallery, he thinks he's caught a high-class crook—only to have Dr. Schoor arrive claiming the suspect is an escaped psychiatric patient. But Schoor's convenient explanations keep interfering with Rookie's police work, turning each investigation into a bewildering mess where the doctor and his "patients" always seem to be one step ahead. As Rookie chases jewel thieves, fur robbers, and mounting frustration, he discovers the real criminals may be hiding behind psychiatric covers—and he'll have to outsmart both the crooks and the doctor's slippery excuses to crack the case wide open.

Happy Terrill brings explosive evidence to editor Mr. Hines that Oscar Slott, head of a bomber manufacturing plant, is actually a Nazi saboteur—but the editor refuses to print the story and fires the reporter, an act that puzzles Terrill. When The Ray transforms to investigate, he uncovers Slott's sinister plot: the villain has kidnapped Mr. Hines's daughter Carol to keep the editor silent while he prepares a finished bomber to fly to Berlin, having deliberately wrecked the rest of the assembly line to cover his tracks.

When poison threatens Nazi Germany's water supply, the Gestapo's double agent Herr Dumm races to reach Dr. Christian, the only man who knows the antidote formula—but Black X and his partner Batu stand in his way. As the spy and the underground operative clash across Switzerland and Germany, a blind man's unexpected gift may be the key to stopping a chemical weapon from falling into fascist hands.