Fantastic Comics #2

Stardust returns to Earth to stop a shadowy villain named Rip-The-Blood, who secretly controls governments and munitions factories worldwide with a sinister plan to spark a global war and become history's most powerful man. When Rip captures the President to frame a foreign power and trigger conflict, Stardust springs into action, thwarting the scheme and confronting the would-be warmonger in a final, decisive clash. This 1939 tale pits the mysterious cosmic hero against one of his most dangerous adversaries in a race to prevent catastrophe.

Yank Wilson, a humble window-washer, overhears a sinister plot hatched by Count Lustig Von Blackgard and his sabotage ring to destroy New York's docks and cripple America's war effort. Going undercover aboard a sea-runner, Yank must infiltrate the conspiracy and stop the villains before their destructive scheme comes to fruition.

Space Smith and Dianna race back to Earth with urgent news: hundreds of Martian destroyers are en route to annihilate the planet with devastating anti-Earth rays. After broadcasting a warning that mobilizes Earth's defense fleet, Space must guide the Earthmen through a desperate aerial battle against the relentless Martian Ogres—who won't go down without shifting their tactics in a last-ditch assault on New York itself.

Sub Saunders joins forces with Lantida, the queen of Atlantis, to liberate her enslaved people from the iron grip of Naulus, the tyrannical dictator who rules the sunken kingdom. With an American expedition of 20,000 men and four submarines, Sub must navigate underwater warfare, frog-men scouts, and devastating hydro-ray defenses to breach Naulus's fortified citadel. It's a high-stakes underwater battle where courage and strategy collide in the depths of Atlantis.