(Target Comics v1 005, 1940)
If there's one type of character that the people at Novelty Press liked, it was a young man getting an American-style military education, and Lucky Byrd was one of those very men. A flying cadet at Randolph Field, Texas, Byrd managed to ferret out a variety of espionage and criminal plots as a sideline to his studies, the first of which involved fellow cadet Rocky Stone, a bully turned murderer turned reluctant saboteur who ended up dead at the hands of his unseen handler when he tried to confess all.
Now, some months later, the ghost of Byrd's old rival has seemingly returned for revenge as a glowing spectre piloting an eerie ghost plane that looks just sick as hell.
As is so often the case with unexpected ghosts, it turns out that Rocky Stone had an identical twin brother, Bob, who has been seeking revenge on Lucky Byrd due to some unreliable information supplied to him by his nogoodnik sibling. And Lucky, good guy that he is, refuses to press charges once everything comes out in the open, so Bob Stone comes out of the whole thing with nothing more than an amazing icebreaker to bust out at parties. Assuming that he also was not prosecuted for stealing that plane from the US Army.
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