All-Winners Comics #15
The Man Who Killed Himself
The Sub-Mariner is visiting with his inventor friend Roy Winters who shows him his new boat engine. After the test, Roy tells Namor that he built the engine without any blueprints. Roy and Namor agree to meet at the Mill Street Pier that afternoon for further tests. As he arrives on the scene he sees a group of suspicious men fleeing from Roy's boat. When Namor attacks them they knock him out with a blackjack and flee the scene. When Namor revives and goes to Roy's boat, he finds Roy dead, apparently from a self inflicted gun shot wound to the head. Namor finds a suicide note that states that he killed himself due to the motor being a failure and that he's destroyed it. Checking, Namor finds that the engine has been taken from the scene.
When the police arrive on the scene, they dismiss it as a genuine suicide, but Namor is not convinced and suspects foul play. Namor tells the officer on the scene that he is going to report the story to his newspaper friend Betty Dean. Unknown to Namor, one of the thugs involved in Roy's killing overhears this and reports back to his employer. With Namor being the only person who has seen the engine, the crooks boss begins planning a trap for the hero.
They send a note to Betty Dean at the newspaper asking her to go to the Blue Circle Inn regarding a news scoop. Ever the newshound Betty rushes to the Inn which has been closed for many months. When she enters the building she is gassed and taken prisoner to use as bait for the Sub-Mariner. Meanwhile, Namor had come across the note sent to Betty and has come to the Blue Circle as well and is spying through the skylight. Namor smashes through and easily beats the crooks into submission. Questioning the kidnappers, Namor finds out that they do not know who their employer is.
Looking around for clues, Namor finds a calendar that advertises the local boat speedway and realizes that the engine might be in one of the boats there. Looking around, Namor is attacked by guards which he easily subdues them and learns that the head launch has been put on a test run. There he finds Mr. White attempting to sell the engine to another business man. When Namor accuses him of killing Roy and stealing his engine, White denies it. Namor then decides to prove it by taking them back to Roy's lab to search for proof with the police. When Namor claims to have found blueprints, White breaks his cover and gasses the officer and Namor and attempts to escape. Namor revives quickly and chases after White who jumps off the George Washington Bridge. White then climbs into a boat and threatens to blow it up with TNT, but Namor easily stops him. Turning White over to the authorities, he tells the police that his committed the crime to try and save his failing business. Later Namor reveals that when he was in Roy's lab, he pretended to find a blue print for the engine to make White blow his cover.
Recurring Characters
Sub-Mariner, Betty Dean
The Masked Trio of Death!
A criminal named Lupo and his three masked killers have committed eleven murders. In order to capture Lupo, the police give full cooperation to Captain America and Bucky to help find the killers. When the radio reports a robbery at a jewelry store on Sixth and Elm, Captain America and Bucky rush to the scene. When the police attempt to shoot Lupo's accomplices, they are apparently impervious to harm. When Captain America and Bucky charge in they are easily overpowered by Lupo and his men, who take Bucky hostage and flee.
Taking Bucky to his hideout, Lupo forces the boy to write a farewell note to Captain America to torment the hero. Bucky uses the opportunity to put a secret code for Cap to find that reveals the location of Lupo's hideout. Cap decodes the message and learns that Bucky is hidden at a florist shop that rents out trucks to make their deliveries. When Captain America comes knocking, he quickly finds that the counter woman is really Lupo in a flimsy disguise and grabs him. Lupo reveals his minions are really obedient apes and orders them to rip Bucky apart. Rushing upstairs, Cap arrives as the apes are attacking his partner and begins fighting them off. During the fight, Bucky grabs Lupo's machine gun and guns down the apes and Lupo is quickly apprehended.
Later, back at home while being given first aid for his injuries, Bucky explains that Lupo's apes were trained to follow his orders and committed their robberies while wearing bullet proof vests.
Recurring Characters
Captain America, Bucky
Lightning Strikes Twice!
At a mid-western penitentiary three criminals escape from the prison yard. In the east, the Whizzer is displaying his powers for a group of scientists who wish to uncatalogued the Whizzer's top speed. To their surprise the Whizzer manages to out run the worlds fastest car and artificially made lightning. Elsewhere, a Nazi spy arrives in the Untied States planning to steal a buzz bomber. Unknown to all, their fates will be woven together.
When the crooks begin a crime spree the authorities call in the Whizzer to help capture them, which the speedster manages to accomplish with ease. However, no sooner are the crooks jailed that they are visited at their window by the Nazi spy who offers them asylum in Germany for their assistance in stealing the buzz bomber. The crooks agree and are given a gun which they use to help break out of their cell.
Learning of this situation, the Whizzer races after them again but arrives too late to stop the crooks from launching the buzz bomber over the Atlantic toward a waiting Nazi submarine. However, before they can depart back for Germany in the sub, the crooks and the Nazis are all rounded up by the Whizzer and turned over to the authorities.
Recurring Characters
Whizzer
Juke Box Murder Case
At the editorial office of the New York Daily, Scott a reporter offers to take out his colleague Brent for some drinks at the Pink Elephant to celebrate his recent appointment as foreign correspondent.
At the club, Brent goes to play his favorite record "Lagakita" from the juke box. When the record begins a gun rigged inside goes off and fatally shoots Brent. When Detective Mike Trapp and Pepper Burns arrive on the scene to investigate the murder. When Mike asks to see Scott's press pass, he claims to have left it in his other jacket. Mike then arrests him for murder, revealing that he found Scott's press pass in the juke box identifying that it fell out when Scott rigged the juke with the gun. At police headquarters Scott confesses and explains he killed Brent in order to get the job as a foreign correspondent.
Recurring Characters
Mike Trapp, Pepper Burns
