Silver Streak Comics #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSilver Streak Comics #4 is an anthology featuring multiple hero stories. The Dickie Dean story shows the boy inventor creating a peace machine that broadcasts a message ending war, with soldiers returning home and mothers rejoicing at their sons' safe return, followed by Dickie's uncle visiting to congratulate him on his success and inform him of another secret invention in the works. The Silver Streak story depicts the hero in a western setting confronting an outlaw named Hawk who takes Marie and her father hostage, leading to action sequences where Silver Streak battles Hawk and his gang. Additional features include Sky Wolf and other hero characters in various adventure scenarios depicted across the issue's pages.
Bill Wayne, the Texas Ranger known as the Texas Terror, crosses paths with the ruthless outlaw Hawk Wilson when the bandit and his gang derail a train to steal its cargo of mail and gold. After a desperate struggle leaves Bill captured and left to die in a burning cabin, the ranger must track Wilson down before the criminal can rob a stagecoach and claim a fortune in gold that a young woman named Marie and her father have discovered. It's a race against time as Bill pursues Wilson across the Texas plains, leading to a final reckoning between law and lawlessness.
In "The Lizard Men," Lance ventures into the mine left to him by his uncle, only to be taken by ancient cave dwellers. When their queen enlists him to help defend her people from a threat of monstrous lizard men, Lance finds himself drawn into a battle far beyond anything he expected.
A young inventor named Dickie creates a remarkable machine that uses radio waves to thicken the air itself—a device designed to render warfare impossible by grounding aircraft and stopping bullets mid-flight. When the government builds a full-scale version and deploys it to an active battlefront, Dickie's invention faces its ultimate test against the chaos of real combat. Soldiers on both sides witness something they never thought possible as the machine transforms the very nature of warfare.
Detective Ace Powers vows to capture the mysterious killer known as the Panther, who's been leaving a trail of murders and theft across the city—but when he tracks the madman to his hideout, the Panther decides to eliminate the detective before he can close in. Ace pursues his quarry through a burning building and across rooftops in a desperate race against time and flame, determined to stop the killer once and for all.
Ken Keen of the Planet Patrol faces a deadly threat when a comet harboring metal octopus-robots threatens the system. Using clever control of magnetic and energy-ray technology, Ken works to neutralize the mechanical menace and its cosmic lair. With one crisis averted, the fearless captain is quickly summoned for his next perilous assignment.
When a French patrol comes under enemy fire, the masked Sky Wolf races to their defense—but his intervention draws the attention of Baron Kraft, a ruthless enemy ace determined to stop him. The Sky Wolf infiltrates an enemy encampment, intercepts crucial battle orders, and alerts the French Air Force to a planned attack on their ammunition depot. As the two skilled pilots clash in a desperate aerial dogfight high above the battlefield, only one will emerge victorious.
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Reprinted in Daredevil #21 (1944), Silver Streak Comics #[22] (1946), Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] (2009)
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