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In wartime Warsaw, 1939, a young man witnesses the brutal death of his brother and sister at the hands of Nazi forces led by the ruthless Captain von Tepp. Haunted by their loss, he swears vengeance, setting in motion a personal war against the enemy commander who took everything from him.

Loops McCann and Banks Barrows, once test pilots with a busted contract, are pulled into the mysterious Red Dragon Squadron when a shadowy general with a dragon’s name calls them to duty. Now, with the Chinese as their adversaries and the skies their battleground, the two young flyers must prove they’re more than just reckless pilots—especially when the Red Dragon himself is watching.

In the harsh highlands of Ethiopia, American engineer Captain William "Wild Bill" Dunn and Australian Private Boomerang Jones forge an unlikely alliance after surviving a failed British expedition. Together, they scavenge remnants of Fascist machinery to build the Blue Tracer, a daring war machine designed to challenge the mysterious and relentless M'Bujies.

In a tense moment during a desperate retreat, three British soldiers—Archie Atkins, Jack Bailey, and Major Douglas—find unexpected salvation when a billy goat named Billy leads them to a hidden group of French resistance fighters. With Achmed among the French, the unlikely alliance begins amid the chaos of war, where even the most unorthodox companions can become vital allies.

When a young man named Jerry Noble discovers his father, Senator Noble, is being manipulated by a shadowy network of Nazi spies, he must rely on an unlikely ally—Sam, the legendary Yankee Eagle—to uncover the traitors within the military ranks. As sabotage threatens America’s fleet, Jerry and the eagle race to expose the enemy before the damage is done.

In a story from the 2024 Facsimile Edition of Military Comics 1, Joan—inspired by the Statue of Liberty—steps into a new role as a protector of the nation, wielding powers granted by a symbol of freedom. When a threat emerges from both foreign agents and domestic conspirators, she must confront a dangerous plot led by Mr. Grost, a factory owner with secrets of his own, while the unnamed FBI Chief Inspector watches the unfolding crisis from the shadows.

When the schooner *Albatross* springs a surprise capture of the Nazi battleship *Kaiser Adolf*, the crew—Capt. Foghorn, Bob Wayne, Dick Martin, and Freckles [Marmaduke Van Weyden]—find themselves racing against time to escape the sea as the Nazis unleash their new dreadnought, the *Kronzprinz Albrecht*. With Captain von Marz and his forces closing in, the fate of the *Albatross* and its crew hangs on one desperate maneuver.