Whiz Comics #53

Captain Marvel falls head over heels for the lovely sister of his boss at a wartime factory job, transforming the world's mightiest mortal into a lovesick fool who can't keep his eyes open—let alone focus on his day job as a radio newscaster. When his awkward serenades and superhuman displays of strength fail to win her heart, the frustrated hero finds himself in a deeper bind than any villain could devise. But Billy Batson has had just about enough of Captain Marvel's romantic theatrics, and he's ready to lay down the law.

When animals across the Old West suddenly start talking—singing bears, wolves making demands, and worse—Golden Arrow investigates a mystery that leads him straight to Lem Bartlett, a cunning animal trainer with a dangerous secret. As the Robin Hood of the frontier uses his wits and his trusty steed White Wind to expose Bartlett's scheme, the swindler grows desperate enough to put Golden Arrow in mortal danger. Can our hero stop the con man before he fleeces the ranchers blind?

When Axis agents deploy a rare jungle flower whose sinister perfume drains even the bravest of their courage, they target Admiral Corby and his daughter Eve with a devastating plot to shatter American morale—but Allen Armstrong, as Spy Smasher, races to stop the terror before the flowers reach the nation's highest leaders. As the hero closes in on the conspirators von Fere, Fritz, and Horst, he discovers the flower's grip may be stronger than his own will to fight.

Prince Ibis uses the Ibistick's white magic to pursue a scoundrel named Carl Kurch through time itself—chasing him fifty years into the past to 1893 after Kurch steals a scientist's experimental time-pills and flees to the Gay Nineties era. With his companion Taia at his side, Ibis must track down the cunning thief through vaudeville shows and period disguises before Kurch can slip back to the present with his ill-gotten gains.

Lance O'Casey and his friend Mike Bellew arrive in Calcutta with peaceful intentions—until a street boy named Kip delivers them an urgent message from Abdul Alamand, an Allied sympathizer who suspects Japanese agents are smuggling guns into India through a notorious cafe called the Golden Slipper. Disguised as ruffians, Lance and Mike infiltrate the operation and uncover a cunning scheme involving a hidden island munitions dump, but their cover is blown and they must fight their way through danger to stop the plot.