Startling Comics #1 (4)

In a tense wartime thriller from 1940, Lt. Don Davis is sent on a high-stakes mission to the British oil terminal in Haifa, a critical target under constant aerial assault. With enemy forces closing in and the fate of the war hanging in the balance, Don must outwit Colonel Brank, a cunning villain whose sabotage threatens to cripple the Allied effort.

Mystico, the mind-powered hero, senses danger when the Navy tests its new weapons—only to watch in horror as the blasts summon a monstrous sea creature from the deep. When the Army faces the same fate on the shore, a madman escapes his asylum, revealing himself as the true master behind the beast. With the nation under siege and no clear way to stop the creature’s rampage, Mystico must race to uncover the source before the destruction spreads.

In the heart of the African jungle, circus performer Tom Carson sends his partner Biff Powers to Angola in search of legendary giants to draw crowds. Rivalry ignites when the Trans-American Circus dispatches villain Brick Peters to beat him, forging an uneasy alliance with a tribe of pygmies who aid his quest. As tensions rise and danger looms, Powers finds himself trapped between the tribe’s deadly plans and the sudden arrival of the giants themselves—leaving him and his companion Marcia Beale caught in a perilous game of survival.