High Adventure #1

Explorer Joe Thomas leads an expedition to the islands west of Greenland hunting for Viking relics, but the search for ancient treasures takes a dangerous turn when he and his sidekick Gadabout Swanson encounter a mysterious red-bearded figure and discover a hidden cave harboring something far more sinister than ghosts. As Joe pieces together clues from the wreckage of the past, he stumbles into the heart of a secret submarine base and must outmaneuver its ruthless commander to survive what should have been a simple archaeological mission.

Captain Fleet faces a powder-keg of trouble when Turkish crew members demand better food aboard the Star of the Sea—and when their complaints escalate during a Mediterranean storm, Seaman Hassim Yarpuz and his companions seize control of the ship and take the radio operator hostage. With the ultimatum "the boat or his life" and dawn fast approaching, Fleet must find a way to break the standoff before his crew member pays the price.

Explorer Joe Thomas journeys to a remote Tibetan monastery, hoping to find his father among the monks—but instead uncovers a dangerous secret hidden within its walls. When a wounded merchant and his daughter join Joe's quest for shelter, a skilled English doctor emerges to help, yet something about him triggers Joe's memory of a war crime from six years past. As suspicions mount and identities are revealed, Joe must act quickly to prevent a fugitive from escaping into the mountains with knowledge that could reshape the world.

When Captain Fleet agrees to freight a menagerie of exotic animals from Calcutta to San Francisco aboard the Star of the Sea, he gets far more adventure than he bargained for—especially when a crate containing a deadly king cobra breaks loose during a storm and vanishes into the ship's hold. With the terrified animals in chaos and the valuable cargo at risk, Fleet must descend into the darkness to recapture the snake before disaster strikes, armed with only his wits and an unlikely ally.

On the morning of April 15, 1912, the "unsinkable" Titanic strikes an iceberg and begins to sink during her maiden Atlantic crossing under the command of Capt. E.J. Smith, forcing a desperate evacuation despite insufficient lifeboats for the ship's 2,224 passengers and crew. As the band plays on and radio—then an untried technology—sends out distress calls, a young radio operator in New York labors tirelessly to relay news of the disaster and the survivors rescued by the Carpathia to the waiting world.