Story #2Polly-Tix
Writer/Penciler/Inker:
Fred Schwab.
Synopsis
One-page rhyming comic tale of a
seagoing parrot who returns home from a long voyage and tells his family it was a boring trip. Then photos of the girls he has in each port fall from his pocket and his wife gives him the beating he deserves.
Story #3The Lighthouse of Horror
Writer:
Stan Lee. Penciler/Inker:
Al Avison. Colorist:
Unknown.
Synopsis
Modern-day
pirates use radio signals to interfere with the workings of the haunted
Last Chance Lighthouse, causing shipwrecks they can loot. A report of the latest tragedy sends
Captain America and Bucky to investigate, thus they are on the scene as the next ship, a steamer carrying
Steve Rogers’ girlfriend
Betty Ross, crashes on the rocks. After a brief battle with the scavengers, Cap is knocked out and Bucky captured. On awakening, Cap investigates the lighthouse and finds the creepy keeper
Lems who barricades himself in a room. Cap then heads out and rescues Bucky and Betty from the pirates, and then the heroes take down the gang. Lems is revealed to be blind, explaining how the crooks were able to pull off their crimes without his knowledge, and the gang leader, the
Looter, is unmasked as
Phillips, a ship passenger who was trying to make time with Betty.
Story #4Wild West
Writer:
Unknown. Penciler/Inker:
.
Synopsis
Rancher
Tom Saunders indulges his elderly grandfather’s tall tales of having battled outlaws in the old West. One day, an Eastern investor shows up to tour the ranch; he turns out to be gangster
Blackie Dione, who wants to get his hands on a hidden gold mine on the Saunders property. When he tries to force Grandpop to sign a bill of sale at gunpoint, the old man turns on him and beats the living tar out of the crook. The ranch is saved and Grandpop now has a true tale to tell of fighting an outlaw.
Story #5Doctor Sinn
Writer:
Stan Lee. Penciler/Inker:
Chad Grothkopf.
Synopsis
Sinister scientist
Doctor Sinn discovers a magic book in an old castle; he casts a spell that endows him with super-strength which he uses to rob the town bank.
Jefferson Vandermeer is at the bank that day and the magical
Imp emerges from his ear to fight the villain. The tiny hero knocks the baddie out but when he revives he burst his bonds and captures the Imp. Sinn takes his prisoner to the castle, intending to cast a spell that will make the Imp shrink and disappear but the hero produces a mirror which reflects the spell back at the bad guy who vanishes instead. The Imp then pops back into Jefferson’s ear until his next adventure.
Story #6The One Man Invasion
Writer/Penciler/Inker:
Unknown.
Synopsis
Headline Hunter, an American correspondent in
London, is invited to join a press conference to be held with
Horner, a
Nazi official who has defected to the
Allies. However it is a ruse for the Nazi to kidnap British publisher
Lord Danvers to stop him from printing patriotic material in his papers. Headline sees Horner contact his Gestapo ally and tries to warn Lord Danvers but is overpowered by the two spies. He races by motorcycle in pursuit of the villains and catches up with them at a secret landing field. He defeats them and rescues Lord Danvers.
Story #7Origin of the Secret Stamp
Writer:
Unknown. Penciler/Inker:
Don Rico.
Synopsis
Paperboy
Roddy Colt of
Freetown USA sells defense stamps for the war effort. One day his pal
Tom is hit by a car and the driver stops only to steal the stamps they have been selling. Passing reporter
Jerry Dash rushes Tom to the hospital then purchases a new bike, complete with radio, for Roddy to go adventuring on, while alerting Jerry to any news stories he finds. Roddy dons a cape and mask to fight crime as…the
Secret Stamp. Learning that banker
Williams has been threatened with death unless he leaves a ransom in the cemetery, the Secret Stamp stakes out the site and spies the crooks in the act of collecting the cash. He sneezes and is captured but manages to radio Jerry to call the police. When the crooks (who were also the ones who hit Tom in the beginning) release him in order to sink him in the river, Secret Stamp fights back and overpowers his captors. He then gets the idea to leave a defense stamp on the foreheads of his vanquished enemies as his trademark.