Captain Midnight #32

When Captain Midnight goes undercover as a flying instructor at an Allied air base in China, he quickly identifies a suspected Japanese spy among the cadets—and a test flight forces the truth into the open. Captured and taken to the enemy's hidden headquarters concealed within the Great Wall itself, Captain Midnight finds himself facing execution while holding the key to dismantling Japan's entire espionage network in China. With only his belt-transmitter and his wits, the air-ace must find a way out before time runs out.

A young student named Montgomery finds himself in a crowded household where keeping track of nine family members proves trickier than an alarm clock—meanwhile, Captain Midnight faces off against the criminal Havana McGee in the treacherous landscape of the Grand Canyon, where an ingenious harpoon-powered cable car and some quick thinking are the only edges he's got. When McGee's gang steals police uniforms and sets a trap, Midnight must rally his wits and an unlikely ally (a phone lineman) to outsmart the crooks and clear a path to escape.

In "Wolves in the Wilderness!" from Captain Midnight #32 (1945), Captain Midnight’s latest invention—a cable car catapult—leads to a daring capture by the McGee gang, but not before Icky springs into action. With the police misled by a clever disguise swap, it’s a sharp-eyed phone repairman who turns the tide in this pulse-pounding aviation adventure, all drawn with crisp energy by Leonard Frank.

When the ice-bound research vessel Northern Belle goes silent in the Arctic, Captain Midnight springs into action to uncover what happened—only to discover the ship's crew dead and evidence of deliberate sabotage. As he and his trusty aircraft, the Liberty Cross, push deeper into the frozen wastes, they stumble upon a Japanese fleet hidden in a secret warm-water passage, and the pair find themselves caught in a desperate fight to survive and expose the enemy's strategic foothold. Pencilled and inked by Leonard Frank, "Flight of the Liberty Cross" delivers wartime adventure with real stakes, told from an unexpected point of view.