Silver Streak Comics #14 (1941)

In the wake of a daring rescue from a sinking U-boat, Captain Battle and his assistant Hale return to America only to face a wave of sabotage orchestrated by the sinister Herr Skull and his eerie, skull-headed minions. As mysterious attacks strike key defense sites—from aircraft plants to navy yards—the duo races to uncover how the gang vanishes without a trace, following a trail that leads deep beneath the city streets.

In the eerie silence of the Pond mansion, detective Presto Martin arrives to solve the murder of heiress Betty Pond, where suspicion quickly falls on a mute, hunchbacked figure shunned by the household. As tensions rise and the investigation uncovers conflicting alibis and hidden motives, Presto races to unravel the truth—only to find himself pursued across the roof by a mysterious assailant who may not be who he seems.

In "Unmanned Bombers," Cloud Curtis and his sidekicks Pop and Crusher race to stop a mysterious, pilotless bomber terrorizing vital American airfields, baffling defenders with its impossible maneuvers. As the attacks escalate, Pop devises a clever trap using a captured bomber’s remote control, leading to a daring aerial showdown that exposes the saboteur behind the chaos.

In a bizarre twist of fate, Egypt’s oldest pyramid mysteriously levitates and crashes into New York City, unleashing a wave of eerie phenomena and vanishing citizens drawn by an unnatural curiosity. As the city reels, the young mystic Thun-Doh arrives from Tibet to confront the ancient evil behind the flying pyramid—only to find himself trapped in a deadly game between the resurrected Black Pharaoh and the renegade Lama Sin-Khaii.

In war-torn London, a gang of thieves preys on the wreckage of air raids, but their looting is interrupted by a mysterious figure known only as the Parson, who claims leadership through an unsettling, hypnotic power. As the Parson’s influence spreads, a new threat emerges—Daredevil, the American pilot who’s secretly come to stop the chaos, now facing not just criminals but a villain whose mind-control makes him nearly unstoppable.