Terrific Comics #2

Kid Terrific and his pal Jimmie grow suspicious when three mysterious new carnival performers arrive at their traveling show—they're speaking German and acting strange, and the duo's instincts prove right when they discover the men are Nazi agents posing as entertainers. As the carnival rolls into Burbank near a major aircraft factory, Kid Terrific and Jimmie race to expose the saboteurs' sinister plot before it's too late.

In "The Butcher of Berlin," Captain Lloyd Raleigh—secretly also the masked vigilante Kurt Brugner—takes on a deadly mission behind enemy lines, tracking down the sadistic Nazi scientist Hugo Drutz before he can unleash a new horror. With a British agent named Diana at his side and a Nazi Major and his soldiers closing in, Raleigh must rely on his wits and his weapon of choice to survive the brutal war zone.

Comics McCormick is the world's number one comic book fan—so lost in his daydreams that he imagines wild adventures while going about his everyday life. When he's supposed to be eating breakfast and delivering his mother's lunch to the munition factory where she works, he stumbles onto a sinister plot: Dr. Hunchback and a crooked guard plan to slip a hypnotic drug into an apple to control his mother and steal her factory's secret weapon plans. Now it's up to young Comics to stop the villains before noon strikes.

When racketeer Rickie Connover is killed, the power vacuum in Chinatown sparks a scramble among rival gangs. Sent down to take control, racketeer Limehouse Langdon finds himself in a tense game of survival, where loyalty is thin and every move could be his last. With Molly O'Moore watching closely and Scoop Scanlon digging for the truth, the stakes rise fast in a world where the next hand dealt might end a man.

In a wartime world where housing is scarce, the Glibbs leap at the chance to move into a newly available apartment—only to discover the current tenant, Mr. Harsh, has been rejected for military service and is now legally required to remain. With Mr. Glibb’s quick wit and Mrs. Snooks Glibb’s sharp demeanor on full display, the situation spirals into a hilariously tense standoff, all while young Dolly tries to keep the peace.

When Radioman First Class R. J. Garmuchsky and three fellow sailors are trapped in a flooded compartment deep below decks after their warship is bombed at Salerno, they face starvation with only five candy bars to sustain them. Cut off by a jammed door and a winding vent that won't allow food to pass through, Garmuchsky must improvise—using nothing but string, paper, and the updraft to send a message topside and devise one clever solution after another to keep his men alive during their two-and-a-half-day ordeal. It's a gripping wartime tale of resourcefulness, courage, and the kind of Yankee ingenuity that turns desperation into hope.