Startling Comics #48
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLance Lewis, Space Detective, encounters alien spacecraft approaching the Moon and discovers they have established headquarters on the far side. After Lance successfully fires on one attacking craft, a strange glowing mass is launched from the enemy vessel. In a separate story, the Fighting Yank confronts a criminal mob planning to rob Mrs. Ritzjones' guests and steal their jewels; the mob uses a hypnotic device to control the Yank, but he ultimately overcomes the criminals and apprehends them.
Space Detective Lance Lewis faces an invasion unlike any before—when a fleet of alien wanderers known as the Space Gypsies materializes near Earth with the power to paralyze entire cities. Captured and brought before their leader, Lance learns these cosmic nomads are desperate to plunder every resource in the solar system, powered by a weapon that nullifies atomic energy itself. Now Lance must outmaneuver an enemy with devastating technology and nowhere to run—but a crucial weakness may be his only opening.
Don Davis, ace counter-espionage agent, uncovers a dangerous plot when a smuggler claiming diplomatic immunity attempts to deliver contraband weapons to a fascist-seized foreign warship in American waters. As Davis investigates and infiltrates the operation, he must contend with treacherous enemies and unlikely allies to prevent tyranny from taking root—all while caught between criminal gunrunners and a foreign despot's ruthless ambitions.
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Reprinted in Fighting Yank #4 (2002), Startling Comics #48 (2024), Golden-Age Greats Spotlight #15
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