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Terry and the Pirates #18 (1990)
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In "Amnesia," Taffy Tucker lies hospitalized with no memory, her mind a blank slate on a U.S. Naval island in Asia. While she recovers, her intern nurse’s husband, a man with secrets of his own, begins to manipulate his wife to uncover classified details about American military movements—just as the war looms ever closer.
In "On the Wing, Part One," Terry takes to the skies in an unarmed training fighter when he spots a Japanese bomber in a zone it shouldn’t be—only to find no trace of it when he reports back. The encounter leaves him questioning what he saw, as the silence of the sky grows heavier than the mission itself. Ray Bailey’s inks lend a stark, grounded tension to the moment, where the line between duty and doubt blurs.