Big 3 #2

In "Life and Death Struggle with Porky Hogg," the cunning criminal Porky Hogg turns his full attention to dismantling the Blue Beetle’s resistance, orchestrating a dangerous scheme to frame the hero for a string of murders using impostors in his costume. With the city on edge and the stakes rising, the Blue Beetle must confront not only a mastermind but the very image of himself turned against him.

Wing Turner infiltrates the Naval Design Building to stop criminals from stealing the plans for a new pursuit ranger, but the thieves escape with the blueprints and take to the air in a getaway plane. Racing against time in a cutting-edge pressed-plastic racer, Wing pursues them through treacherous terrain including the notorious Whirlpool Bluff, determined to recover the stolen designs before they can deliver them to enemy hands.

Endowed with fire powers granted by the Grand High Lamas, The Flame takes on the Crimson Circle, a ruthless gang spreading terror through the fur trade district with arson and kidnapping. As The Flame races to stop their crimes—rescuing trapped victims and pursuing the gang across bridges, through fortified buildings, and into underground tunnels—he finds himself battling both the gangsters and the deadly traps they've set to stop him.

Stardust, the super wizard whose mastery of interplanetary science makes him Earth's greatest defender, targets Master-Mind De Structo and his international racketeering mob—a criminal empire plotting to eliminate America's leadership with a devastating oxygen-destroying ray. When De Structo's vials are activated across the nation, Stardust races from his private star to stop the attack and track down the villain before chaos consumes the country. It's a battle between cosmic power and earthbound villainy, with the fate of a nation hanging in the balance.