National Comics #33

In "Mobtown, U.S.A.!", newly elected Mayor Boss Spring tightens his grip on the city, turning public services into pay-to-play schemes and silencing dissent—until Uncle Sam steps in, only to be arrested alongside his ally Buddy. The stakes rise as the city’s fate hangs in the balance.

Quicksilver, patrolling the Aleutian Islands in 1943, lands on Kattu Island in search of Japanese soldiers—and finds them. Captured, he’s forced into a brutal fight against their Captain, a master of Ju-Jitsu, in a clash that’s as dangerous as it is unexpected.

The Unknown infiltrates an enemy camp and discovers that General Mitsui and his forces have claimed the legendary Goblets of Fatimara—an ancient Hindu princess's treasure—after a costly battle with the tomb's guardians. Caught between the Japanese military's obsession with the priceless artifacts and his own mission to keep them from enemy hands, the Unknown must outwit both soldiers and the general's cunning to secure the goblets for the Allies.

When jewel robberies baffle the entire police force, Sally O'Neil puts her womanly intuition to work tracking down the elusive Purple Mask—and discovers that this daring criminal isn't quite who everyone assumes. As Sally pieces together clues from the crime scenes, she closes in on the thief at a high-stakes opera benefit, uncovering a mastermind hiding in plain sight.

Chic Carter tracks down a gang of clever crooks who use a blackout to raid the city treasury, disguising themselves with grease paint so they can't be identified in the dark. When the detective discovers an abandoned can of the makeup at the scene, his hunch leads him straight to the hideout of the ringleader, a criminal from his past. It's a race against time as Carter confronts the gang and fights to bring them to justice.

When military secrets start leaking from Washington's highest circles, G-2 is assigned to infiltrate a suspicious party at the Mackinsons' estate—only to discover that the enemy's most dangerous spy, Mata Hari, has somehow returned from the dead to steal classified information. As G-2 pursues the elusive femme fatale across a frantic chase that spans from a basement interrogation to a commandeered diplomatic clipper over the Atlantic, he must determine whether he's facing a ghost, a brilliant impostor, or something far more sinister. With Nazi operatives closing in and Mata Hari vanishing and reappearing at will, G-2 finds himself in a desperate race where the line between the living and the dead grows dangerously thin.