Heroic Comics #16 (1943)

Lieut. Sandy Nininger, a West Point graduate with a quiet demeanor and a passion for music and art, finds himself in the thick of battle near Abucay, Bataan, where he’s frustrated by inaction while his comrades fight. Determined to strike first, he charges into enemy lines, confronting snipers in the jungle and using his wits and training to outmaneuver foes—despite being wounded—before launching a daring climb to take down a sniper in a tree.

Major Luther Caldwell Heidger, a dedicated flight surgeon, puts his medical skills to the ultimate test during a brutal Japanese air raid on Clark Field in the Philippine Islands, rushing to tend to wounded soldiers amid falling bombs and chaos. Despite warnings to seek shelter, he remains on the front lines, performing life-saving surgeries under fire with unwavering courage.

When the Music Master arrives at the supposedly haunted Mosque Theatre for a benefit rehearsal, he’s drawn into a deadly game orchestrated by a mysterious phantom who claims to be seeking a hidden treasure. As eerie accidents and cryptic threats unfold—complete with a sabotaged organ, falling sandbags, and a voice from the pin rack—the Music Master and the theater’s heir, Penrod, must unravel the truth behind the ghostly menace before the final curtain falls.