National Comics #39
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# National Comics #39 The issue contains multiple stories. One story follows Sally reporting to the San Francisco Police about a white slavery operation, where she infiltrates a diner to gather evidence, and encounters a mysterious man at night who attempts to strangle her before she escapes. In another story, Uncle Sam confronts a military commander and Japanese forces planning a massacre on an island, stopping their torture of natives and defeating the enemy soldiers in combat. The stories reflect wartime themes typical of 1944 comics, featuring law enforcement heroics and military action against enemy forces.
Windy Breeze demonstrates an outrageous talent for tall tales in this quick-witted humor piece, claiming he can fly without a plane—all he needs is imagination. When he sets out to prove his wild boast, his fantasy gets a reality check that nobody saw coming.
Captain Don Leash of U.S. Military Intelligence discovers a Nazi spy ring operating in an American town—one that's using carelessly spoken words from a neighborhood sewing circle to track troop movements and plan sabotage. When Leash transforms into G-2 and uncovers the scheme, he finds himself racing against Madame Z and her operatives to stop a planned attack on an ammunition ship at the docks. It's a tense wartime thriller where loose talk truly becomes the enemy's greatest weapon.
Quicksilver crashes a high-society masquerade to keep watch over the guests, only to discover that a grotesque creature has infiltrated the party with murderous intent. The beast—a trained ape-man controlled by the escaped criminal Dr. Krud—targets socialite Miss Carlyle for ransom, but Quicksilver intercepts the kidnapping and pursues the creature back to Krud's lair. When the dust settles, the underworld vows that Quicksilver's next battle will be far worse.
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Reprinted in Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] (2017)
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