Bob Burton is a half-pint cowboy with an unusual angle to his story. A villain is trying to get the dead to his mother's ranch by convincing them their ranch is haunted. Noises in the attic and a ghostly face at windows are used to spook them, but the face is revealed to be a luminous mask hanging from a pole, and the noises in the attic are -- you couldn't get away with this in a comic book today -- from a cat with weights tied to its legs.
The story has an unusual resolution; instead of the villain getting arrested, or getting his comeuppance, Bob's mother sells the ranch to him -- but only after they find out that the man wanted buried treasure on the property, and after they had already dug up the treasure.
Bill Barnes is an aviator hero. He is after the Yellow-Jackets, a paramilitary group with an island base -- sort of an evil version of the Blackhawks! -- since publisher Street & Smith seems hesitant to label foreign countries as villainous so far. The narrator refers to how they have a "world-wide web," which is funny given what it means today.
Bill thinks the Yellow-Jackets base is "Mantigo Island." If the author is referring to Montego Bay, then the "island" is Jamaica. Montauk Point is referenced, but that's a real place, a state park on Long Island.
Bill has night-glasses, binoculars with polarized lenses that let him see an oncoming aerial attack in time to prepare. He doesn't display having anything else of a trophy nature, though he owns at least 10 planes, assuming each of his hangars has two in them.
The Yellow-Jackets have thermite bombs, or incendiary bombs. Incendiary grenades are in the trophy section of Hideouts & Hoodlums, so these would just be a slight upgrade.
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