Frogman Comics #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"The Rusty Bucket Mystery" follows two investigators who discover a battered freighter ship lying low in Caribbean waters with no crew and no record of her cargo, prompting their curiosity about the mysterious vessel. When they contact their superiors in Washington about the discovery, they learn of interest in a "Phantom Ship" that may be of vital importance to the country. After acquiring an unusual watch from an antique dealer, the investigators begin to suspect it holds secrets, but when one of them is attacked by pirates aboard a second ship and nearly slips overboard, the watch's true value becomes unclear amid the maritime chaos and danger that unfolds.
During a covert mission behind enemy lines, a U.S. frogman team is captured after their strict new commanding officer, Lieutenant Stone, dismisses their beloved mascot Dipper the seal as bad luck. Trapped in an enemy headquarters, the men face an impossible situation—until Dipper unexpectedly finds a way to rejoin them and deliver a crucial message that could change everything. Watch as a furry courier becomes the team's last hope to save the incoming marine landing.
Counterfeit currency keeps surfacing around the world, and U.S. Secret Service operative Kent Crown suspects the source is a freighter called the *Avodire*—so he calls in his old pal Whitey Beach, a former Treasury investigator now training frogmen for the Navy, to go undercover and investigate. What starts as a suspicious engraver working in a New Orleans coffee shop leads Whitey to sneak aboard the ship and uncover something far more elaborate than anyone expected: a fully operational counterfeiting operation hidden in the vessel's hold. With the crew onto him and evidence of the scheme in danger of disappearing, Whitey must race to expose the operation before his quarry vanishes into the night.
When underworld smugglers outfit aliens with old frogman gear to sneak them into Florida, the Coast Guard begins finding bodies washing ashore—and federal agents Kane and Bill infiltrate the operation from Cuba to track the smuggling ring to its leader. As they embed themselves among criminals and conspirators, Kane manages to radio for backup, but the syndicate discovers his treachery and hauls both agents before the mysterious boss of the outfit. What unfolds is a tense confrontation at sea where the true identities and loyalties of everyone involved are about to be revealed.
When a suspicious unregistered freighter catches the attention of naval intelligence and an ambitious newspaper reporter, Lieutenant Blake—a former underwater demolitions expert known as Frogman—finds himself reassigned and sworn to secrecy about the ship's true purpose: a disguised atomic submarine far ahead of public knowledge. After Blake's wartime skills uncover a sabotage plot in the Caribbean, he must rely on quick thinking and his old training to protect America's greatest naval secret from enemy operatives determined to destroy it.
A cocky submarine graduate gets a warm welcome to American waters when his state-of-the-art vessel becomes the unwitting centerpiece of a junkyard negotiation. What starts as a military objective takes an unexpectedly commercial turn, proving that sometimes the real battle isn't on the high seas.
When the U.S. sub-chaser Hale intercepts survivors from the freighter Pandora—sunk by an unknown menace in the Pacific—Lt. Miles Clark's eight frogmen spot something suspicious: one of the rescued sailors is an old acquaintance with a troubling history of shipwrecks. Their hunch leads them aboard the whaler Aleut, where a cunning operation is unfolding beneath the deck—one hidden inside a hollowed whale carcass. With the frogmen playing the role of unsuspecting castaways, they'll need to move fast to stop Captain Kala and his crew before another vessel goes down.
Henry Gage, a cunning 18th-century English rogue, pickpockets the wrong man—a fearsome pirate captain known as Redbeard—and instead of facing execution, impresses the crew with his blade work and quick wit enough to earn a place aboard their ship. Reborn as "Calico Jack," he rapidly wins the loyalty of the pirates through daring raids and clever tactics, but his ambitions soon put him at odds with Redbeard himself in a deadly struggle for command. As the two duel for leadership, fate—and a handful of wet rice—intervenes in ways neither man expected.
A young log-roller from a Northwest camp gets his shot at the National Log-Rolling Tournament in Michigan, but discovers his lucky yellow pants have been stolen the night before the finals—leaving him scrambling to recover them before facing off against the tournament's fiercest competitor, "Windy" Wilcox. With his confidence shaken and forced into borrowed dungarees, the kid must dig deep to prove he's got the skill and heart to take the title.
Cal Rodgers stakes everything on an audacious 1911 dream: to be the first pilot to fly coast-to-coast across America and claim a fifty-thousand-dollar prize. With his chief mechanic Jennings and an observation train trailing below, Rodgers launches from Newark in September, racing against a October 10th deadline while battling mechanical failures, treacherous weather, and relentless crowds. This is the true story of how grit and determination changed aviation history, even when the odds—and the elements—seemed determined to ground him.
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