Big Shot Comics #25

When an air raid blackout plunges Los Angeles into darkness, a newspaper editor exposing defense contract profiteers is murdered—and FBI agent Jeff Cardiff fakes his own death to pursue the case as the mysterious vigilante known as the Cloak. Investigating the crime, Cardiff uncovers a web of industrial sabotage and rival companies competing for government contracts, leading him to confront the ruthless James Marronel and his scheme to frame an innocent man for the killing. It's a wartime tale of greed, corruption, and one man's determination to see justice done in the shadows.

Skyman tests his remote-controlled aerial torpedo—a devastating new weapon—only to have Nazi spies, led by Herr Freyburg, infiltrate his hidden workshop and steal both the device and its blueprints. When the Nazis kidnap a young woman to force Skyman's hand, he pursues them to a beachside hideout, leading to a desperate fight against enemy agents and a race to stop the stolen torpedo from reaching enemy hands. With the fate of his invention and his companion hanging in the balance, Skyman must use every trick in his arsenal to neutralize the Nazi threat before they escape.

Tony Trent, ace broadcaster for WBSC, thought covering the circus would be easy—until a Cossack rider takes a mysterious fall during the parade and a real murder becomes hidden beneath the big top. When the Face investigates, he uncovers a female animal trainer's deadly scheme involving a rigged aerial wire, a loose panther, and a vendetta against Tako, the World's Ugliest Man, that threatens to claim another life high above the arena. Racing against time under the big top's canvas roof, the Face must stop a killer and save Tako from a sabotaged stunt that could prove fatal.