National Comics #46 (1945)

When shy, nervous Sonny Day claims two gangsters are chasing him, the circus troupe—led by the gruff but kind-hearted Barker—initially dismisses him as a dramatic kid. But when Sonny’s desperate story leads them to his mysterious uncle’s mansion, they uncover a web of secrets that turns a simple rescue into a dangerous mission.

In "Case No. 20... The Vase of Kwan-Yin," G-2 teams up with a renowned art expert to track down a stolen artifact—the legendary Kwan-Yin Vase from Tambang—said to grant leadership to its holder, all while navigating the shadows of wartime espionage in the Pacific.

In a spooky cemetery on a stormy night, the clever but nervous Amos encounters a bumbling, lisping hob-goblin who claims to be a failed ghost—only to reveal he’s actually a hallucination born from Amos’s own imagination. As the two stumble into a mystery involving a buried plastic container and a sabotage plot targeting a defense plant, they uncover a scheme tied to the cemetery’s eerie location, all while dodging the chaos of exploding graves and a mysterious enemy named Von Hogg.

In "Waterdog Breeze," Jo and an unnamed uncle row through a deep, calm lake when the uncle panics, prompting Jo to boast about his incredible swimming prowess with a wildly exaggerated tale of surviving a shipwreck by diving a mile to the bottom and surviving on corn planted on his chest. As Jo recounts his impossible feat, the uncle nearly capsizes the boat, sending him into the water—only for Jo to reveal he’s been bluffing all along.

In the Dutch East Indies before the Japanese invasion, Captain Marlin clings to his aging concrete barge, the Yeoman Third, out of loyalty and desperation, refusing to sell it despite financial ruin. When the Japanese seize control of the harbor and force him to run the barge as a supply vessel, he secretly uses it to aid the Allied cause—leading the destroyer 171 into a dangerous mission to block the harbor mouth, all while protecting his beloved ship and crew.