| Synopsis | - 3.15576E10
- The Blackhawks receive a radio message that Stanislaus' mother is dying. He parachutes behind the Iron Curtain to see her. Arriving at her house he finds that it is a trap. His mother actually died several months ago. Stanislaus is put on trial, charged with attempting to plant an atomic bomb on a busy street. Surprisingly, Stanislaus confesses. When the other Blackhawks hear this, they assume that Stanislaus has been tortured and fly to rescue him. However, the army is watching for them and the Blackhawks are quickly captured. After they are fed, the Blackhawks seem listless. The next day, they are all placed on trial. When told to confess, they suddenly refuse and attack, surprising everyone in the courtroom. They grab Stanislaus and escape on motorcycles through the subway. The Inquisitor who was behind the plan is sent to Siberia. On the flight home, Blackhawk reveals that the food was too spiced for Stanislaus' home country, so he realized that it was drugged. They tossed the food out the window then pretended to be drugged in order to surprise their captors.
- The United World Council has gathered the greatest scientists of the world at the Citadel of Science on a remote island. Dr. Ivander is shot while taking a phone call in his office, however he is soon seen unharmed. Meanwhile, Blackhawk has invented a robot dog capable of tracking someone by their brainwaves. He has recorded the brainwaves of all the Blackhawks to test it. Blackhawk takes the robot and the recordings to the Citadel, where he is knocked out and the inventions are stolen. Blackhawk has compound skull fractures and it takes him several days to recover. When he returns to Blackhawk Island, he is attacked by a robot hawk with a jet engine. Blackhawk shoots the hawk, but another appears. Blackhawk determines the hawks must be tracking their brainwaves and have bombs set to go off when they get close to their targets. He orders the others into the cellar and disarms the other hawk. They then hear a radio broadcast from someone calling himself the Hawk Master. Within the hour he will kill the leaders of Saigonia, then kill the leaders of one country every hour until the world surrenders to him. In Saigonia, a flock of robot hawks enter the capital building and explode. Blackhawk determined that the metal used in the robot is a new kind developed at the Citadel of Science. They fly to the Citadel and gather the scientists. Blackhawk tells them that one of them is an imposter, but he previously recorded their brainwaves and can detect the imposter that way. Dr. Ivander calls for guards, but the Blackhawks defeat them. Blackhawk reveals that the real Dr. Ivander is dead and the imposter is his twin brother who recently escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
- Chop Chop has lost his wallet and is need of money, so he agrees to deliver a suitcase to a hotel room. Unknown to him, the suitcase contains a new dummy for a ventriloquist. After entering the room, the suitcase comes open. Chop Chop thinks it is a dead body, so he hides it behind the radiator. When the ventriloquist arrives, the dummy's wax face has melted, so he forces Chop Chop to take its place. The audience complains because the "dummy" is so unrealistic.
- Jim Bagsby is a successful trader in South Africa. Travelling up the Gwadi River through Matebeleland, he arrives at the village of Swali. Chief Walambi tells Jim that a young warrior has been murdered. They have two suspects, but cannot judge between them. As both sons of leading warriors, the village has become divided. Jim tells them each to go into the jungle and capture the White Ibis. They should take one feather from each wing and place them in their right hand. The soul of the deceased will take one of the feathers from the guilty man. When they return, the guilty man is discovered because he has three feathers in his hand.
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