Speed Comics #4

Biff Bannon, a U.S. Marine, takes a joyride in a rental plane over Panama—only to crash through a camouflaged cover and discover a hidden enemy submarine canal built in secret years ago. After escaping and rallying the local authorities, Biff devises a daring plan to seal off the canal and stop a foreign power's plot to dominate the Western Hemisphere. This adventure by Rem Brant delivers wartime action and quick thinking in six fast-paced pages.

Smoke Carter, Fire Chief, discovers two murdered bodies and a fire at an office building—and becomes the killer's next target when a bullet narrowly misses him. Investigating a hunch about the escaped criminal Ginnis, a murderer known for arranging victims in swimming positions, Smoke tracks him to his old hideout. When Ginnis sets the house ablaze to cover his escape, Smoke uses the fire itself to bring the dangerous criminal down.

When madmen armed with disintegrator guns begin terrorizing New York City, military leaders are forced into a desperate bargain with the villain Landor—turn over Anthony Torrence, and Landor will stop the threat himself. To destroy the fire-crazed killers, Landor unleashes his greatest creation: a twenty-foot-tall robot with a living brain, but when the monster turns on its master, Torrence must think fast to survive the unleashed horror.

Tex rolls into a dusty frontier town looking for a night's rest, but a bank robbery that very evening lands him in the marshal's jail as the prime suspect. When a vengeful mob forms outside the jail walls, Tex must find a way out—and uncover who the real culprit is before the townspeople take justice into their own hands. With help from an unexpected ally, Tex discovers the truth hidden in the marshal's own quarters and turns the tables on the real robber.