Captain Midnight #43

Sergeant Twilight crashes a swanky literary tea party thrown by publisher J.C. Cowby to promote a mystery novel called "The Screwball Murders"—only to stumble upon the real thing when the book's author, Elmer Groggins, turns up dead. Framed for the murder and locked in a laundry chute, Twilight must use his homemade lie detector and all his wits to smoke out the killer before Captain Midnight has to bail him out of an even worse jam.

Witless Witmore proves he's sharper than he looks when he challenges a skeptic to a battle of wits over deadly substances—turning the tables with an unexpectedly clever answer. This 1946 humor piece shows that sometimes the town's "dumbest guy" has more sense than people give him credit for.

Captain Albright, known to the world as Captain Midnight, races to solve the case of twelve stolen crates that vanished from a New England train—crates that secretly contain vital military gyro-instruments disguised as wristwatches. Using his latest invention, an invisible plastic speedboat, Albright and his partner Icky pursue the thieves across water and into a hidden mountain hideout, where a cunning criminal called Suds plans to deliver the contraband by air. With the stolen instruments' deadly potential in enemy hands, Captain Midnight must crash the operation before the crates reach their final destination.