The Railroad Saboteurs (Nickel Comics #7)

As alleged accidents occur on the city's transportation system, Jim discovers corrosive acid on a piece of demolished truck indicating foul play. Reporting this first to his number one fan Susan, then officially to her father Sargeant Kent, Jim... and we the audience... are introduced to the owners of two of the city's main transportation companies. Grenville owns the large company, Kort the smaller. Each is panicking over the potential loss of revenue... forget loss of life... that each of these self-centered business magnates is experiencing.

First saving passengers traveling the rails through a tunnel under a river and then a rail traversing above ground, Bulletman is able to save scores of lives while racking up property damage on scale with the saboteurs. It is revealed that Kort was the man behind the scenes manipulating these attacks, in order the cause Grenville's company stock to fall allowing him to buy controlling interest in it. *Yawn*

Bullet Buddies: Jim is in serious need of some male friendships, and this evidently won't come from his police station compatriots. Don't worry Bullet, your buddies are coming here shortly.

Rocketing Romance:  When Barr asks Sergeant and Susan if after seeing Bulletman they've learned who he is, Sarge says "No- I never saw anybody who even looked like him" while Susan replies "Nobody could. He's wonderful!". 

Bedeviling Bulletman: Kort falls into a disturbing trend of fairly obvious criminals masquerading as law-abiding paragons of industry.

Powerful Projectile:  Toppling over a massive clifftop in order to divert the flow of a river, and tearing tracks from their foundation and supporting it while a carriage rolls over it, is impressive.

Fawcett Facts: Wondering if in the Fawcett Universe, vision coverage is carried on insurance plans.

Fawcett Comics Presents: The Scarlet and the Gold #1

In the golden age of comics,  crossovers tales between characters within a publisher's titles was not as frequent as it is today. While DC Comics did have a few such meetings between characters in solo titles, as well as in team-up books such as All-Star Comics and Leading Comics, this was the exception rather than the rule. Fawcett had the Marvel Family alone, with a few notable one-on-one meetings or group cameos within a story spotlighting the lead character.

Mary Marvel was unique in her title as to having a few of these yet not with headliners like her brother and his pals over at Whiz Comics. Instead, it was alongside heroic sidekicks somewhat like herself. The first of these was in her title working with her "old friend" Pinky Butler, who secretly was Pinky the Whiz Kid! 

In this tale, what began as a trip to the museum wherein Mary and Pinky run into each other, turns into a mystery of criminals who appear in the building to rob jewels and other pricey artifacts, then disappear when the kids get close to catching them. 

Twice the two hoods give these crimson crime crusaders the slip, first distracting them with a falling statue, then giving chase in a darkened room to cover their trail.

However, the heroes deduce that the recently donated Trojan Horse is where the crooks are hiding, and although the pair capture them they fail to find their stolen goods.

When Mary Broomfield and Pinky Butler reappear, they are both knocked out by Professor Logan, who donated the false Horse in the first place to give his goons a hiding place. 

Attempting to destroy the evidence and remove the two youngsters aware of his plot, instead Pinky helps free Mary allowing her to become Mary Marvel. Together with the Whiz Kid, she captures the wayward archaeologist and recovers the precious items.

Although the two kids part at the conclusion of the case, later in this issue Pinky would reappear with some of Mary's friends at her dinner, although this cameo was rather brief.

The Moon Torchman / The Boss / The Fire Fiend (Wow Comics #5)

Our first tale of this issue begins on a college campus, where a college professor storms out of the office of his colleague who dispute his theory of harnessing concentrated moon light. Later, as special prosecutor Brian Butler, his adopted son Pinky and personal assistance Miss Cherry Wade are strolling through the same campus, they come up rampaging students effected by the rays emitted from a robes villain's flashlight.

Identified as the Moon Torchman, the fiend turns his attention on Mister Scarlet and Pinky who arrive on the scene. What follows are wild escapades in this collegiate setting.

The madman turns Scarlet into a blithering baby with his celestial green light, while giving Pinky a serious case of head trauma by bashing the kid’s skull with the business end of his lunar flashlight. Initially, Torchman leaves Scarlet in a baby carriage that just happens to be lying around (!!!) in the middle of the road for a truck passing by to run over it. Before that happens, Mister Scarlet shakes off the effects, and the Torchman flees the scene.

Pursued by his opponents, Moon Torchman flashes his mood altering light upon dogs and a football team practicing in the middle of the night (this is one strange college campus).

During a rematch, the pair defeat the robed rogue aka the vengeful professor is cornered by the Dynamic Duo of what will one day become known as Earth-S, and is quickly defeated. Towards the end, Miss Wade oddly bemoans Pinky's well being, while simultaneously attempting to attract Brian's attention!

The next case commences with our three protagonists in the prosecutor's office, discussing a headline about Mister Scarlet having cleaned our crime in the city. No sooner to they pat each other on the back, then a big bruiser known only as the Boss charges into the room. Pushing away both Pinky and Miss Wade, the Boss demands that Butler write out the last will and testament for Mister Scarlet. Meanwhile, Pinky quickly dons his crimson costume, and charges at the behemoth baddie though doesn't knock his foe down. As the Boss leaves, he's pursued by Scarlet and Pinky, leaving a frantic Miss Wade behind to worry over her employer and his son. Mostly his son.

The Boss muscles his way into a wealthy home in order to rob that family, although the Crimson Crusaders track down the thug and his henchmen. Despite the fact that the Boss nearly overturned a car with his massive strength, he and his hoods are overwhelmed by the coordinated attack of our heroes.

Our final adventure opens with Pinky Butler distributing care packages to disadvantaged residents of a poor neighborhood tenement in... yes it a named... Gotham City!

This seems to imply that the lad is returning to where he grew before his mother died, as a local woman knows him by name while thanking him. The fact that the boy has extra money in order to charitably donate to others in need will dramatically shift shortly when his and his step father's financial fortune changes

There in the tenement, he encounters the asbestos-suit clad Fire Fiend, who is attempting to burn down the slums. As the kid is found unconscious on the roadside by Butler and Miss Wade, they revive him and soon after he and his "dad"  changed into their identities as the Red-Robed Knights of Justice, to Miss Wade's dismay. After following a lead to a crazed professor's home whom they believe is the masked marauded, the pair are ensnared but free themselves and defeat the Fiend.

It is then revealed that the daring duo's hunch that Fire Fiend was the slumlord himself... William Wilcox... whom they met earlier. He devised this alter ego in order to cash out of this losing property in his possession. Instead of revealing the man's insidious campaign of destruction, they make him promise to tear down the tenement and rebuild it anew with his own money, which he agrees to.

• Supporting Scarlet:Pinky several times saves his mentor and charges into action, even when under threat of castor oil! Although she does an attractive pose for Mister Butler at the end of tale #1!

• Red Romance: Miss Wade shows passing concern for Brian, but her heart is now squarely in the maternal arena these days.

• Menacing the Mister: Moon Torchman shows promise with his technology but apparently is driven insane from it. The Boss is nondescript. A Fire Fiend would return, though not this one, sadly.

• Crimson Capabilities: No gadgets at the ready aside from some implied robes, while the duo's acrobatics and routines seem to keep their adversaries on the defensive.

• Fawcett Facts: This would be Mister Scarlet's last cover of Wow Comics where he was the sole character featured (along with Pinky the past two issues). Next issue, two new heroes will crowd him to the side for head shots only.