Military Comics #24 (1943)

In the heat of war, Blackhawk is entrusted with a vital mission: deliver a mysterious envelope to Intelligence in Honolulu. The dying officer’s final warning echoes—protect it from Sandoz, "The Man With the Heavy Glasses." As Blackhawk journeys through danger, he must keep both the envelope and the enigmatic Sandoz under control, even as the tension mounts and the stakes grow deadly.

In a wartime aviation gag, a group of pilots executes a wildly exaggerated dive bombing maneuver dubbed the "Super Scooper Dive," using a bizarre, scoop-equipped plane to "attack" a submarine in a comically over-the-top fashion. The story plays on military absurdity with exaggerated sound effects and triumphant captions, culminating in a tongue-in-cheek victory that leaves the outcome delightfully unclear.

In the war-torn streets of Manila, a captured American flyer faces execution at the hands of Japanese forces, but his fate takes a sudden turn when the elusive sniper arrives to rescue him. As the sniper and the flyer escape through the prison's underground tunnels, they're pursued by Suratai, the deadly assassin sworn to kill the sniper by the Black Dragon Society. With the enemy closing in and time running out, the two must fight their way to freedom—leaving behind the question of whether Suratai’s vow of blood will ever be fulfilled.

In this 1943 humor tale from *Military Comics* #24, Private Dogtag, convinced he’s doomed by a fortune-teller named Backa Bom Bey, takes out a $10,000 life insurance policy—only to later be "killed" in a staged explosion that leaves him a ghost. Now haunting the camp in a borrowed bedsheet, Dogtag tries to stay hidden while Backa Bom Bey and his partner plot to collect the insurance, unaware that Dogtag’s ghostly return might just expose their scheme.

In the southwest Pacific, Battleship X, commanded by Captain L. Gatch and crewed mostly by inexperienced reservists, faces a brutal air assault by Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes, surviving intense combat through fierce anti-aircraft fire and unwavering courage. After repelling the air attacks, the ship engages a larger Japanese fleet near Guadalcanal in a fierce gun duel, inflicting heavy losses before the enemy retreats.