Bruce Gentry Comics #8

When Bruce Gentry takes on a salvage mission for two sisters seeking an ancient Spanish galleon loaded with golden doubloons, he finds himself caught between a ruthless rival named Gomez, a mysterious figure known as Don Pasquale, and a legendary curse that may be far more real than superstition. As fog rolls in over the waters of Punta Geugo, Bruce and his crew must navigate diving expeditions, phantom ships, and treacherous waters where treasure hunting becomes a race against time—and against enemies who'll stop at nothing to claim the riches first.

For centuries, dreamers dared to imagine that mankind could fly—an ambition that earned them ridicule, imprisonment, and worse. "The Dream That Came True" traces the history of aviation from ancient myth through the bold experiments of real pioneers: the legendary Icarius, the persecuted scholar Roger Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical visions, the Montgolfier brothers' balloons, and the engineers who pushed toward true powered flight. Follow the visionaries who refused to let the world's skepticism stop them from chasing humanity's oldest dream.

Flying ace Bruce Gentry accepts a high-paying charter job from Felix Krude, president of Southways Rubber, who needs transport into the South American interior—but complications arrive fast when a mysterious woman reveals Krude is actually a fugitive embezzler, and the truth gets even stranger in the jungle. With his plane caught between a detective's deception and a native tribe's vengeance, Gentry finds himself tangled in a web of lies, poison darts, and a ten-year-old crime that nobody's told him the full story about.

When daring aviatrix Sonya Smythe lands for fuel during her round-the-world flight—still handcuffed to her control stick as a publicity stunt—she clashes immediately with the no-nonsense Captain Bruce Gentry, who sees her stunt as a dangerous embarrassment to aviation. Their heated clash turns into a high-stakes aerial challenge that neither is willing to lose, forcing Bruce to pursue Sonya's plane with dangerous intensity to bring her back down to earth.