Frogman Comics #4

Spinner Monks, a cocky ex-football star fresh to a U.D.T. demolition team, learns fast that his glory days mean nothing when Commander Elton and his men operate on pure teamwork—but when a dangerous underwater mission to destroy enemy submarine pens goes catastrophically wrong, Monks discovers what real heroism looks like.

The U.D.T. Boys are dispatched on a classified Arctic mission to find and destroy an enemy relay point hidden beneath the ice—a critical cog in a plot to launch guided missiles across the polar cap at the United States. When gunfire near a fishing village tips off the operation, a tense underwater race begins as the team hunts for the mysterious signal source while enemy operatives close in. With the clock running and hostile forces converging from all sides, it's a high-stakes battle of wits and combat skill to secure the objective and get it home.

Dan Sully and Wade Corey, volunteer frogmen, are tasked with destroying enemy beach defenses while agent Sam Kuyako attempts a daring escape—but Sully's tendency to joke his way through everything puts the entire mission in jeopardy when the team comes under fire. When Sully finally comes face-to-face with Sam during the chaos, he discovers that his casual attitude has cost him dearly, and he'll have to prove himself if the three of them are going to make it out alive.

Medic Joel Farnum alerts his captain to a horrifying discovery: a survivor pulled from a wrecked freighter in the Gulf Stream carries bubonic plague—and investigation reveals the disease was planted deliberately in floating coconuts as a weapon. With an epidemic threatening to spread across the Atlantic, Farnum and the Navy must race to find the source before more contaminated cargo reaches allied shores.

Set in 1750 aboard the pirate ship Salamander, Abel Lemaire—known as "the Frog"—devises an ingenious scheme to plunder merchant vessels while evading the watchful eye of Lt. Richard Pinyon of the British Navy, who has warned him to abandon his criminal ways. Using trained swimmers equipped with breathing tubes inspired by a frog's air pouch, Lemaire orchestrates a series of underwater raids that baffle his pursuers, until Pinyon sets a trap that forces the pirate and his men into history's first underwater combat. Though Lemaire falls, Pinyon's hard-won victory becomes bittersweet when the Admiralty dismisses his bold proposal for an official underwater corps as impractical fancy.

Captain Jamie Ball's pirate ship is hunted down by Commodore Cobham's British frigate and wrecked on a tropical shore, forcing Ball and his crew into the jungle with nothing but their weapons. When they capture a native who carries a mysterious emerald, Ball becomes obsessed with finding the legendary jewel-filled cave upriver, ignoring warnings that the native may be leading them into a trap. The treasure hunt takes a wild turn when hippos guarding the river become the least of their troubles—Commodore Cobham is closing in, and the native has his own deadly plans for the greedy buccaneers.

A young farmer named Jud Lasswell arrives in a Wyoming town looking for work and stumbles onto a clever opportunity when he discovers that the railroad has erected a $75,000 monument on unclaimed government land—land he can homestead for himself. Once he files his claim, Lasswell sees dollar signs and writes a demand letter to the Union Pacific demanding payment, but when railroad lawyers show up to discuss the matter, the inexperienced newcomer quickly realizes he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

In "The Green Peril," the twisted growth of a monstrous plant begins to consume the woods near von Emmelman’s wrecked airplane, its tendrils spreading with unnatural hunger. When the Heap senses the unnatural struggle unfolding in the Wassau Swamp, he moves in—drawn not by danger, but by the desperate life still clinging within the forest’s grip. The battle between man and monster unfolds in the shadows, where survival is measured in seconds and the earth itself seems to rebel.