(Blue Bolt v1 008, 1941)
The Sergeant Spook writers, having exhausted the storytelling possibilities inherent in an ultra-powerful ghost taking on mere mortals and having established that ghost-on-ghost violence is essentially consequence free are now trying a new angle: ghost crooks preying on mortals and Sergeant Spook bringing them to justice.
This time, it's the Ghost of Captain Kidd - like Jesse James before him, Kidd is compelled to return to the patterns of his life, and having obtained a ghost ship from somewhere he sets to looting mortal cargoes. Sergeant Spook of course does not stand for this and pursues in a ghost battleship crewed by John Paul Jones, Admiral Dewey and Sir Francis Drake, plus a lot of no-names.
Captain Kid has a moment of triumph when it is revealed that he has somehow obtained and installed a ghost motor on his ghost ship (and it is here that I will note that I have absolutely no idea how any of these large objects become ghosts in the first place - are they all ghost ships in the traditional sense or are there different rules for ghost vehicles?) followed by the more entertaining revelation that none of his crew have any idea how to work an internal combustion engine and thus the ship ends up sailing in a circle. The forces of ghost law thus are able to catch up, Captain Kidd gets socked in the kisser and everyone goes home.
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