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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: AC
Title: Men of Mystery Comics
Page Count: 148
Genre: Adventure, Aviation, Superhero, War
Era: Modern
Cover Price: 29.95 USD
Cover Date: September 2014
UPC: 64924192603009411
ISBN:
Country: United States
Industrialist Tex Calhoun is sponsoring a test flight, but has chosen another pilot to make the test instead of Airboy. But when he shows up late, heavily clothed and not wishing to speak to anyone or allow anyone near him, Airboy smells a rat, and checks his apartment, where Rick is found wounded. Airboy jumps in Birdie and heads out to chase down the pirated plane, flown by Rick's twin brother. He forces the pilot down and a long stand-off occurs before death finally wins out.; Captain Smith is ordered to go with Commander Rogers in his plane-carrying submarine, and then be dropped 100 miles off the Japanese coast. He meets Stella Ruben, and together they head to Tokyo to kidnap the Japanese Minister of War.; Skyman saves Fawn and an Army Major from being blown up in their launch by a torpedo. He is told that mysterious submarines have been preying on the U.S. Merchant Marine the past two months, and no ship is sunk: they just disappear in mid-ocean.; An archaeological society of October 28, 2985 A.D. discovers the wreckage of the 20th Century in their travels, including some movie film highlighting the exploits of Sky Wolf and his band in 1943, fighting over the jungles of New Guinea. They are captured by the High Llama and his zombie followers, and are hypnotized to go out and fight against the British forces.; The Masked Pilot and Tom head for the aviation factory owned by friend Dwight Ellis, who has had a problem with his plane prints being traced. The Pilot discovers that one of the factory employees is the guilty party, then has to fight for his very life to subdue him.; Sylvia reads in the newspaper that the Nazis are crying foul over R.A.F. pilot Jeff bombing their schools and hospitals. But he denies that, claiming that photos of him attacking these targets was doctored. When the Nazis murder Jeff, the Black Angel steps in to square accounts.; Dennis is listening in to secret Japanese radio messages, all of which are meant to hinder the Allied invasion of the Japanese homeland. So he sends his friend Moki to locate the radio station, which he does, and together with the Golden Eagle, put an end to the station and its crew.; Captain Aero doesn't think that his night guards are crazy when they see and shoot at large, hairy beasts, especially when he comes face to face with them himself. Then they discover that Japanese soldiers are inside of the cleverly woven Kunai grass outfits.; Chickie and Gootch attempt to help Maylene the Tigress free her nation of Tibet from corrupt government officials, who have kidnapped her father.; The Dutchman and Rausbeck have an aerial battle and the Dutchman wins, while Rausman dies. Cleverly, the Dutchman switches uniforms and planes so that Nazi forces believed that their hated enemy is dead. Now the Dutchman is flying with the enemy and causing destruction all along the way.; The Lone Eagle plans a ruse to get the real Dr. Ryan safely to England with his odorless gas invention, but Nazi agents capture the scientist in his lab before he is scheduled to leave.; Chet is approached by the two sons of the late inventor, Harvey Beecher, who fear for their lives from their sister, of all people, who supposedly desires the fortune of her late father. She allegedly has a clue that will solve her father's will, but it is actually Chet Horne who fools the Beecher brothers into thinking that he has solved the riddle secret of Harvey Beecher's will.; Discovering that Bill has been captured and being tortured for information by the Japanese in a concentration camp, Black Venus vows to locate and save him from further atrocities.; The Japanese decide on a daring plan to attack Tommy and his squadron, and capture Tommy in order to prevent their attacks on the Japanese forces trying to keep their shipping lanes open in the Pacific.; Midnight and Chuck land in a farmer's field, and talk their way out of being taken to the local Sheriff, but lose their prisoner, Gardo, in the process. They head to a squadron aerial instrument company, where they learn that several planes have been sabotaged. Captain Midnight vows to discover and capture the person rersponsible.; Cyril is in trouble again and Jenny heads out to rescue him when a hurricane strikes and she is forced to return to base. After the storm, and fearing the bioy is lost, Jenny takes to the skies again and this time spots Cyril being menaced at sea by sharks!; Wing is assigned the task of manning a plane over the U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic, looking for the periscopes of subs below the surface. He spots one and heads into the air to coordinate his ship's torpedo target. While the torpedo sinks the sub, Wing's plane's rudder is hit by flying shattered metal and crashes into the ocean, becoming fair game for the Nazis.