Masked Marvel #3

In "null," the Masked Marvel faces a web of betrayal when freed criminal Anton Roche is recruited by three rival gang leaders—ZR, ZY, and ZL—to hunt him down. As the gang leaders scheme to outmaneuver each other with coordinated attacks, the Masked Marvel sends his agents to intercept them, leading to a tense showdown where loyalty is tested and one leader doesn’t make it out alive.

When test flights of the Winthrop Aircraft Company's new D-63 pursuit plane end in tragedy—each pilot killed in a mysterious crash—the Masked Marvel arrives to investigate, suspecting foul play rather than a design flaw. After discovering the test pilots were actually shot down by a sniper, the Masked Marvel devises a daring trap: he'll pilot the fifth D-63 himself, hidden in the plane's body while a dummy cockpit draws fire from the foreign spy saboteur. With the help of his operatives ZR and ZY, the Masked Marvel prepares to expose the conspiracy and prove the revolutionary fighter jet worthy of the U.S. Army.

Two modern-day pioneers, Lucky Tad Loft and Tumbleweed Payson, disguise their desert expedition as a covered-wagon journey—until they ditch the wagon, assemble a hidden airplane, and fly to the remote ghost town of Parlon to locate a valuable metal deposit for the government. When they discover another wrecked plane and encounter a mysterious young woman at the mine site, their secret mission takes an unexpected turn as unknown visitors close in on their location.

Dean Denton, America's foremost scientific detective, faces his most baffling case yet when a lieutenant is found murdered in his locked cabin aboard a Navy cruiser—with both the door and porthole sealed from the inside. As Denton and the ship's commander investigate, a shred of fiber at the lock suggests an ingenious method, but the usual suspects all have airtight alibis. The real killer makes a desperate move to silence Denton himself, nearly succeeding with a deadly trap of poisonous gas.