Terrific Comics #6

Kid Terrific and his pal Jimmie take jobs aboard a motor launch owned by siblings Bruce and Julie Haskell, unaware that the Haskells are searching the Keys for buried pirate treasure—and that Arturo Habenez, an old boxing rival turned racketeer, has learned their secret and plans to follow them to claim the treasure for himself. When Kid Terrific refuses Habenez's offer to help steal the treasure, a brawl breaks out in Havana, but Kid Terrific's loyalty to his employers keeps him from suspecting the danger closing in on the voyage ahead.

Defense lawyer Harris Bailey hatches an audacious scheme to save his guilty client, Big Joe Ryan, from the electric chair—by bribing juror number twelve with ten thousand dollars to hold out for a life sentence instead. But Bailey's carefully orchestrated plan crumbles when the juror reveals that the other eleven jurors were actually voting to acquit Ryan entirely, and only his stubborn holdout forced a compromise verdict that keeps the crime boss behind bars. Desperate to escape the wrath of his now-furious client, Bailey surrenders himself to the law—with one darkly ironic request.

Molly O'Moore and reporter Scoop Scanlon pursue a lead on a deadly sabotage plot when a fellow journalist disappears under suspicious circumstances—leading them to a greeting card company hiding a horrifying secret. When Molly infiltrates the operation, she discovers that the cards themselves are laced with thermite designed to incinerate unsuspecting soldiers, and she finds herself trapped in a burning building as the saboteurs' plan nears completion. It'll take all of Molly and Scoop's nerve to stop the murderers and expose their scheme before those lethal cards reach their intended targets.

In "Death Beneath the Sea!" from Terrific Comics #6 (1944), Juggernaut faces a treacherous dive when a ship carrying lumber mill gold is torpedoed and sinks. With a salvage diver's line severed under mysterious circumstances, Juggernaut takes the plunge himself, determined to recover the treasure from the ocean's depths.

Buck and Broncho, former newsreel cameramen turned cinema adventurers, find themselves stationed on an American-held island in the South Pacific when they witness suspicious activity around the base hospital. When the lieutenant overseeing the nurses turns up murdered, the pair realizes they're caught in the middle of a sabotage scheme targeting wounded soldiers—and must uncover who among them is working against the Allied cause. With treachery closing in from all sides, Buck and Broncho race to expose the conspiracy before more lives are lost.

When the Reckoner and Chipper cruise Wharton Street looking for an organized robbery ring, they stumble onto a scheme far darker than petty theft—one rooted in the final instructions of a dead racketeer's widow. As the young vigilante and his partner dig deeper into a seemingly ordinary grocery store front, they discover that a woman calling herself Ronnie Rumple has been systematically training young criminals to carry out her late husband's ambitious plans from beyond the grave. With the net tightening and enemies closing in, the Reckoner must reckon with forces both criminal and vengeful.