Bill makes his way to "somewhere in China" quick-as-you-please, and vows to do his level best, which believe-you-me, is PLENTY GOOD ENOUGH!
But before the adventuring starts - an inspiring Braveheart-like speech!
No sooner if the convoy underway, when a stowaway is discovered tagging along. Bill makes chase, only to find...
(By "Great Scott", I think he probably meant "Ick"!)
Since she is plain, Ah Hee probably bears no relation to the famous Ah Hee Diggings in Oregon. Though, like all comic-book Asians, she is a sallow yellow color. I guess we should be thankful that that artist Fred Ray was progressive enough not to furnish her, or any of the other Asians in today's strip, with comically-oversized teeth or coke-bottle glasses.
In a plot twist I'm too lazy to explain, the convoy is overtaken by an American air ace, "Broadway Charlie", who proves to be on the up-and-up!
But - what's this? Ah Hee love Broadway Charlie long time!
In another plot twist, the convoy has fallen in with a group of Chinese guerrillas who have arrived to accompany the shipment to Chiang Kai-shek. But Bill has a hunch that something's not on the level!
Congo Bill sees th - - WHAAA? Japanese people walk differently than Chinese?!?
Well, actually, the Japanese DID cultivate a specialized way of walking the Namba Aruki, through the 19th Century, so I suppose this could be what Bill is referring to. Suffice to say, he knows a rat when he smells one!
Having been captured and bound, Bill overhears an ambush in the planning!
Heh. "Rough pole".
After his inevitable escape, C.B. and B.C. try to out-manly-man each other in their attempt to outwit Tojo's army. Ka-POW!
But...while Bill and Charlie are putting the drop on each other, Ah Hee out-mans them both!
Since, with the advent of war, we've apparently done away with recurring supporting characters, Charlie's heroic act ensures the death of both he and Ah Hee. But not before Bill gets in a few righteously indignant zingers!
Bill's own showbiz aspirations have already been revealed, so it's only natural that he'd want to share one last manly embrace with the like-minded Broadway Charlie. And...what's that, Charlie?
"A-a-a-h....Ah WHO?" Only natural that you would forget your would-be war bride after experiencing the musclebound jungle embrace of Congo Bill!
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