The Blue Beetle #20

When the Blue Beetle corners a foreign agent, he’s not done—there’s still a missing piece of the puzzle: microfilm the agent hid in plain sight, tucked inside the lining of Joan’s coat. Now the hero must navigate the tension of a secret discovery without exposing her.

Reporter Joan Mason's superstitions nearly cost her everything when she boards a flight trailing the mysterious inventor Iron Pants Morgan—only to discover a criminal plot involving stolen atomic bomb plans. Caught between a desperate kidnapper and Morgan's own shadowy agenda, Joan must navigate mid-air chaos and danger to survive the journey and break the story of a lifetime.

Blue Beetle answers an urgent call from Agent C72 about a mysterious black fog that's melting observatory lenses worldwide—a cover for enemy agents constructing a space platform armed with an atomic cannon. Racing against time and a series of escalating traps, Blue Beetle must penetrate enemy defenses in orbit and stop the platform before it becomes operational. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, our hero discovers that sometimes the greatest obstacle isn't the enemy's firepower, but staying one step ahead when every moment counts.