Valiant #20 October 1962 [3]

In a tense wartime mission near Alexandria, Hurricane tracks a critical German fuel dump—only to cross paths with the thieves who stole his clean shirts from Maggot’s jeep. With danger in the air and pride on the line, the encounter turns into a high-stakes game of wits and survival.

In this delightfully absurd 1962 Valiant tale, Grandma Nutt and Grandpa Nutt are utterly baffled by a new washing machine—until they decide it’s a pastry mixer, then a record player, and finally, with alarming enthusiasm, a washing machine for the kids. Baby Peanut’s fate hangs in the balance as the family misinterprets the appliance’s purpose in a series of hilarious, kitchen-sink mishaps.

In the dusty frontier town of Fremont, Hawk tracks down a shadowy informant, only to find himself face-to-face with the notorious gunman Red Larsen—whose past and motives are as tangled as the railroad's unfinished rails. With Big Mick Mulroon watching from the sidelines and Sam Basset’s name whispered in the wind, the truth behind the Sioux raids is buried deeper than the tracks themselves.

In "null," Louis Crandell, a lab assistant to Professor Barringer, becomes invisible after a lab accident—his only visible trace a floating steel prosthetic hand. Stricken by a personality shift and driven by megalomania, he turns to crime across England, then crosses the Atlantic to New York, threatening the city with a bomb. As the hunt intensifies, he finds himself entangled with a gangster, leading to a reckoning that forces him to confront the truth of his actions.

After a harrowing Arctic journey marked by a tense encounter with a polar bear, Horatio Nelson sets course for the East Indies aboard HMS Seahorse. Stricken by a mysterious fever, he is forced to turn back, leaving his mission unfinished and his fate uncertain.

Kid Gloves gets a shot at a televised fight try-out, but his hopes are derailed when he spots someone sneaking into his former employer’s safe. Before he can act, he’s mistaken for the intruder and chased by police, leaving him to prove his innocence while the boxing world watches.

Jack o'Justice uncovers a chilling secret beneath the frozen wastes of Siberia—a colossal creature preserved in ice, tied to the mysterious Vronsky. With the villagers turning on the castle, Jack and Vronsky are captured, leaving their fate in the hands of a storm brewing both outside and within.