National Comics #9

Wonder Boy tangles with the murderous scheme of the Redrum Company when he spots the boss orchestrating a sinister operation from above. After catching a falling man and confronting the criminal enterprise, Wonder Boy pursues a truck headed for a rendezvous with the river, determined to bring the culprits to justice. With evidence in hand, he delivers the Redrum Company's leader and witnesses to the police station to answer for their crimes.

Cartoonist-detective Pen Miller receives a call about Cobalt the Chemist, who's vanished after his assistant is found murdered—with a chemical formula hidden in his mouth. Miller decodes the formula as a secret food pill formula, and when he lets slip that he has it, foreign agents kidnap him and his valet Niki, whisking them to a sinister mansion full of coffins. With quick wits and teamwork, Miller and Niki must navigate a web of espionage and captors to rescue both Cobalt and an army captain held prisoner—and claim his story.

When a serial killer targeting blonde women strikes again, Jack decides to hunt the murderer by recreating the crime himself—but his amateur detective work lands him in hot water with the police just as the real killer makes another move. With Jack locked up and the actual culprit still on the loose, it falls to Jill to track down the truth before another victim falls. A rollicking case of mistaken identity and deduction that proves sometimes the best way to catch a criminal is to think like one—though the execution can get messy.