1. Happy Hobby Time: (PSA with Superboy)
2. The Girl Who Lived 5,000 Years: (Ghost-Breaker) Doctor Terrence Thirteen, and his fiance, Marie, are en route to visit Reed Masters when they see Masters crash his car into a tree. With his dying breath, Masters tells his tale. Along with two other men, Masters had been summoned to Lamson Manor. The manor's custodian, Hendricks, introduced the men to Tateeka, a centuries-old beauty, who awakens for one month only, every century. The men are offered Tateeka's company, for one week each, for $1,000.00.
Each man committed suicide at the end of his week, as has Masters. Thirteen pays the same sum to escort Tateeka, for her last eight days. Thirteen, too, succumbs to Tateeka's charms, falling madly in love with her. Thirteen becomes consumed with desire for Tateeka, all but spurning his fiance, Marie. Falling deeper under Tateeka's spell, Thirteen has a moment of clarity and calls upon Marie. Thirteen showers Tateeka with gems.
Marie begs Thirteen to give Tateeka up. Thirteen refuses, opting to spend eternity, with Tateeka, within her glass sarcophagus. Tateeka struggles against Thirteen, blurting out that they'll suffocate unless the air pump is activated. It is the admission Thirteen has been waiting for. Thirteen crashes out of the sarcophagus and goes after Hendricks. Thirteen follows Hendricks upstairs, where he discovers the real custodian of Lamson Manor, bound to a chair.
The man is Tateeka's father. A hostage to force her to go along with Hendricks' scam. Tateeka used drugged gloves to compel Hendricks' victims to love her. Thirteen was tipped off to the presence of the drug, when a carnation, that Tateeka touched, quickly wilted and died. From that point on, he wore nose plugs to keep the drug from working on him, in their future encounters. Once more, Thirteen has debunked a case of the seemingly supernatural.
3. One Punch Wille: (humor strip)
4. The Pirates of Fernando Isle: (Captain Compass)
5. Private Pete: (humor strip by Henry Boltinoff)
6. The Man Called '50-50': (Robin / written by David Vern) Robin is captured by a Two-Face knockoff called 50-50 Finley who claims he heard a doctor say he had a 50-50 chance of living and swor he would always give others the same odds. Robin watched as he disciplined his men with supposed games of chance but quickly realized the games were rigged.
7. Peg: (humor strip by Henry Boltinoff)
8. Bags Of Wind: (text story about balloons)
9. The Ambush at Sea: (Tomahawk) On April 18th, 1775, Tom and Dan trick a British gunboat crew into helping them get a smuggler with guns and powder for the rebels past a blockade.
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