Real Adventure Comics #1

Two hardened jewel thieves, Shultz and Mendes, join the French Foreign Legion to vanish from the law—but when their outpost faces attack, a daring escape plan puts them to the ultimate test. As the two fugitives flee into the desert with freedom in their sights, a careless mistake threatens to transform their greatest opportunity into a deadly liability.

Deep beneath the rivers, sand hogs battle mud, muck, and crushing pressure to drive tunnels where no man should go—but when a cave-in forces foreman Dumont to rehire an old acquaintance, Larry Green, tensions explode faster than the compressed air keeping the river at bay. Green must prove he's not the jinx Dumont believes him to be, even as catastrophe strikes and a gaping breach threatens to trap every man in the tunnel beneath tons of river water.

When a tragic accident on a high-rise construction site costs a young worker his life, his coworker Tim becomes paralyzed by guilt, convinced he's to blame and terrified to return to the steel beams. His friend Steve, watching Tim's spiral and knowing the only cure is action, sets an audacious trap—deliberately putting himself in mortal danger to force Tim back where he's needed most. In this tense tale of steeple jacks working the dangerous heights above the city, one man must conquer his fear to save another.

When a sudden storm sinks a freighter, five survivors—a captain and his crew—find themselves adrift with dangerously thin food rations and nine days until landfall. The captain imposes strict rationing to keep everyone alive, but his second mate and the crew demand they divide the supplies immediately, setting up a tense battle of wills where the captain must stay awake to maintain command while his mutinous crew waits for exhaustion to claim him. In this 1955 war story, duty and survival clash as the captain fights to honor his oath against men who've lost faith in tomorrow.