Approved Comics #6

When the Black Baron puts a fifty-piece bounty on Robin Hood's head, a blacksmith's orphaned apprentice shelters the fugitive outlaw at his forge—but the smithy's greed tempts him toward betrayal. As the Baron's men close in, the young boy must choose between the gold and the man who showed him kindness, leading to a desperate fight where an unlikely ally discovers his own courage.

In 1271, the young Venetian merchant Marco Polo embarks on a perilous journey to the Far East, eventually reaching the court of Kublai Khan—where he earns appointment as a roving ambassador and witnesses wonders no European has ever seen before, from the vast city of Peking to the emperor's magnificent palaces and ingenious messenger system. Years later, imprisoned in a Genoa jail after his return to Venice, Marco recounts his extraordinary travels to a fellow captive, whose written account of these tales will reshape European understanding of the Orient for centuries to come.

According to ancient writers like Plato, the legendary island kingdom of Atlantis once dominated the Mediterranean with its war-like armies, until Athens rallied her people to resist and drive back the invaders in a long, bloody battle around 9500 B.C. But before Atlantis could strike again, nature itself destroyed the wicked island in earthquakes and tidal waves—yet centuries later, the true location of this sunken civilization remains a tantalizing mystery, with scholars proposing everything from the Azores to the Americas as its possible resting place.

An Earth task force faces a fortified Belzarian position on Mars—one they can't shell without drowning thousands of innocent Martians below. Captain Andall devises a daring plan: a frogman squad will infiltrate the fortress through underwater intake ports to neutralize the enemy force screens from within. When the mission goes sideways and the Empress herself falls into their hands, Andall and Sergeant Bala must use cunning and swift action to reach the controls before the Belzarians can mount an overwhelming counterattack.

In 1904 St. Petersburg, the Okhrana's chief Baron De Plehve falls victim to a terrorist bombing orchestrated by the elusive Ievno Azeff, who narrowly escapes arrest and retreats to his underground network. As Azeff and his operatives scramble to rebuild their arsenals and carry out a plot against the Grand Duke Sergei, they grow increasingly desperate to unmask Valentine, the informer they believe has infiltrated their ranks and handed their secrets to the secret police. This true spy story follows the deadly cat-and-mouse game between the terrorists and their hunters, as both sides race toward a violent reckoning.

In 1954, King Louis Phillippe's French Foreign Legion stands as a refuge for the world's outcasts and displaced—men with no questions asked about their pasts who find purpose in the grueling brotherhood of military service. From the deserts of North Africa to the jungles of Indo-China, these hardened veterans fight with fierce loyalty for the nation that gave them a second chance, earning their reputation as the Legion of Death through decades of sacrifice across the globe. This is the story of society's forgotten men who transform their broken lives into acts of extraordinary valor.

John Bernard survives Hammond's gladiatorial games with vengeance burning in his heart, and spends five years building a fortune specifically to destroy the man who forced him into that bloody arena. When Bernard finally owns Hammond's mansion and brings the fallen tyrant back to face him in single combat, the stakes are everything—but victory comes at a terrible price. A twisted tale of revenge where the arena's appetite for blood consumes even the victor, from Approved Comics #6 (1954).