National Comics #59 (1947)

When Dandina visits old friend Lassie with a gift for her cat, Lassie mistakes a glittering bracelet in Dandina’s luggage for a collar—only to watch in horror as the cat bolts with it. With the neighborhood kids rallying to track down the runaway feline, the mystery deepens when Dandina’s fiancé Pablo arrives, and the truth behind the bracelet begins to unravel.

When Policewoman Sally O'Neil returns to her parked car at a suspiciously cheap lot, she finds it being sold by the Smiling Swede and his partner Max—right out from under her nose. As the duo scrambles to pull off their scam, Sally’s quick thinking and sharp instincts turn the tables, exposing the ruse before the criminals can vanish with their haul.

Steve Wood takes on a mysterious client known only as Mr. Bones, who hires him to deliver a letter to the captain of the barge Lorena under dangerous conditions. As Steve journeys to the harbor, he uncovers a web of deception involving a rigged dynamite-laden barge and a plot that turns the delivery into a deadly trap.

In "The Haunted Doll House," Granny Gumshoe and her young partner Lippy investigate a mysterious doll house that seems to come alive at night, complete with tiny footprints and glowing lights—leading them to uncover a scheme involving a shrinking device and a thief disguised as a miniature menace. When the culprit is finally exposed, Granny uses her own clever inventions to turn the tables, trapping the real criminal in his own contraption.

In "The Australian Magic Murders," Jonas, exiled to the outback and transformed by his time in Australia, returns to confront his past with deadly precision—his boomerang mastery, once mistaken for magic, now a weapon of vengeance. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, the story unfolds with a quiet menace, rooted in betrayal and the weight of a life rebuilt in silence.