Stories from the golden age

When senior reporter Pop starts searching for a story's source, he lands in the middle of the story of the century after historical monuments disappear.

Sergeant James Mitchell and Private Spivits are ordered on a dangerous mission to deliver badly needed supplies to an American consulate in the heavily bombed city of Shunkien, risking war with invading Japanese forces.

After Billy Newman strikes gold while in the Philippines, he believes Lady Luck favors him so much that he buys his own South Seas island for a bargain price--or so he thinks.

Escaped convicts Paco Corvino and Lars Marlin face off after a chance meeting that puts both their lives in danger while sailing on a luxury yacht.

Kirt Reid, having been charged with murder and larcency, decides to escape to China where he is recruited by a White Russian who is working against Chinese intelligence services and ends up being blackmailed into assassinating a Japanese spy.

Tom Bristol, press-ganged into service aboard the British HMS "Terror, " welcomes the chance to jump ship when the "Terror" is attacked by pirates, but his fortunes go from bad to worse when his new crewmates abandon him on a deserted island, leaving him with nothing to do but think of a way to get revenge.

A republication of a 1938 story in which Lee Weston, wounded in a gunfight with Harvey Dodge, the man he believes responsible for his father's murder, flees to the mountains outside Pecos, New Mexico, where he is found and secretly nursed back to health by Dodge's daughter Ellen, only to earn her scorn when he insists on continuing his plan of revenge.