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- 7.8894E8
- At Electro Headquarters, Professor Zog decides that the next menace to tackle is the drug peddlers that are selling illegal narcotics all over America. To this end, he summons all his Electro agents and sends them all over the country to locate the various drug rackets in each state and call on Electro to eliminate them.
Electro Operative 7, Bill Dunn, arrives in San Francisco where he learns from the chief of the narcotics squad that the drug czar in the area is a man known as the Voice. He is called this because nobody has ever seen him and that he broadcasts from a speaker that picks up a signal from a remote location. Staking out Chinatown, Bill spots a drug deal in progress and tackles the dealer. He forces the man to take him to his hideout where he knocks out a guard and steals his clothing. Pretending to be on a drug pick up, he meets the Voice, or rather his transmitter who informs everyone gathered that the liner Arcadia has a fresh shipment of cocaine being smuggled into the country. Hearing the sound of the bay area through the loud speaker, Bil deduces that the Voice must be located near the pickup spot. Staking the place out, he finds a remote island off the bay that has a radio transmitter, confirming his hunch. Rushing back to his hotel room, Bill operates his Electro transmitter and summons the Electro robot to San Francisco. Under Bill's commands, Electro arrives at the island base and smashes it, taking the Voice and his assistant to the police to be detained.
This is not the last stop for Electro, his next stop is Chicago where he takes out another drug den hidden in a fake garage and later stops an air plane delivery of drugs in Philadelphia. Because of Electro's efforts to eliminate drugs from the United States, Dr. Zog received a letter of congratulations from the President of the United States.
- Walking past a cafe, Thomas Halloway spots a fight break out inside between a young man and a bruiser named Rocco. Deciding to teach the man a lesson, Halloway comes in and easily beats Rocco into submission. On his way out, he recognizes jewel thief Gabby Harris. When Harris tells him to butt out of his business and disappear, Thomas tells him that he'll see the crook on the police line up and slaps him on the back before disappearing. One of Gabby's goons notices a note, and they read that it's from the Angel. Gabby is shocked, but tells his men to hurry as they have work to do.
Meanwhile, Halloway has changed into his Angel costume and is staking out Harris's car. Seeing a bodyguard there he knocks the man out and looks inside. There he finds his female friend Mary Edwards who recognizes the Angel by his civilian identity. The Angel learns that she was grabbed by Gabby and his men because of the replica of an expensive diamond necklace that she is wearing, thinking it is the genuine article. The Angel tells the girl to stay in the car and give up the fake necklace as they crooks will likely leave her near her house afterward and then ducks back under cover.
When the crooks return Mary does as she is instructed and Gabby orders his men to drop her near her home. When the Angel overhears that Gabby intends to sell the stolen necklace to diamond dealer Nichols, he realizes that there is more to this plan than just petty theft. Hopping back onto Gabby's car, the Angel knocks out the two men in the front and has Mary help tie them up and put them in the back of the car. Dropping the girl off at home, the Angel tells her to call the police and tell them to raid the cafe.
Meanwhile, the Angel drives to Nichols' jewelry store where he jumps in just as Nichols has pointed out that Gabby has brought him a fake necklace. In the ensuing clash, Gabby is caught in a hail of bullets fired by Nichols, giving the Angel the chance to knock Nichols out and take both men captive. He drops them off at the police station with a note for the police who include them in their successful bust of the cafe.
Later, Halloway takes Marie out on a date and when Marie overhears a bunch of crooks dismiss her necklace as a fake, she turns around and tells them that they are the genuine article. Shocked at this admission Thomas grabs the girl and hops into their car before every thief in the area comes down on them.
- Continued from last issue...
Namor is commended for his aid in stopping a bunch of crooks from stealing from the New York Treasury, proving to the NYPD that he means to help mankind. On their way back to the police station, the patrol wagon carrying the captured crooks is caught in a crash caused by crooks seeking to spring their fellow crooks, however the Sub-Mariner quickly foils this plot and all those involved in the break out are arrested as well.
At police headquarters the commissioner and Betty Dean commend Namor for his work, however the Commissioner wants him to stand trail for the murder of a police officer during his earlier arrival in New York. Namor is furious at having to prove himself again, but Betty swears to Namor that they will find him innocent in court and he will be free to go. The Sub-Mariner decides to believe Betty, but secretly gloats to himself that even if he were found guilty they have no power to keep him prisoner.
Playing ball, Namor is unaware that his meals fed to him in jail have been drugged to reduce his powers and after being found guilty in court does not have the strength to resist arrest. Put on death row, Namor wonders how his powers have failed him. He continues to be given drugged food until all modes of appeal have been exhausted. Taken to the electric chair, the Sub-Mariner struggles the whole way but it is to no avail.
However, when the switch is pulled the jolt of electricity eliminates the drugs effects and restores his super-human powers, allowing him to break free. After smashing the electric chair, Namor smashes through the guards and escapes the prison. Furiously believing that Betty tricked him, he confronts her about the drugging, however she denies involvement. No believing her he tells her that the surface world will pay and flees the scene. Diving into the ocean and swimming back toward Atlantis, Namor vows to renew his aggression toward the surface world.
This story is continued next issue...
- A fatally wounded guide is stumbling through the Belgian Congo when he is spotted by N'Jaga the Jaguar. Before the big cat can kill the wounded man, Ka-Zar steps in and saves him, sending the cat into retreat. The man, blinded, finds it hard to believe that he has been rescued by Ka-Zar -- a man he believed was nothing more than local superstition. However when Ka-Zar proves who he is, the guide tells him that he led a man named Fenton into the jungle. When he learned that Fenton was going to poach elephant hurts to illegally harvest their ivory tusks Fenton tried to kill him. With his dying breath, the guide asks Ka-Zar to stop Fenton before he wipes out a nearby herd.
Calling his animal friends, Ka-Zar summons Zar the lion, Trajah the elephant and Nono the monkey to his side and they begin tracking down Fenton and his hunting party. They find Fenton, a cruel man who beats his native guides whipping them into submission after they attempt to refuse to hunt the elephants -- animals they find sacred. Ka-Zar stops the beating by tossing a rock at the man alerting the natives of his presence. Fenton refuses to believe that here is a "jungle god" responsible for throwing the rock.
Later, Ka-Zar jumps one of the natives and learns that they are being forced into hunting the elephants. Ka-Zar believes the native and orders him to instruct his friends on what to do. While the natives lead Fenton toward the elephants, Ka-Zar and Trajah convince them to charge. When the natives abandon Fenton he panics and tries to flee, only to be trampled to death. Such is the fate of all those who seek to defile Ka-Zar's land.
- Two crooks named Turgo and Patch are plotting to steal the plans of an incendiary bomb that has been stored in the safe of the Midtown bank. To this end, they light a forest fire to distract the towns volunteer firefighters so that they can commit their robbery without opposition. However, the raging forest fire also attract the attention of Jim Hammond, the Human Torch who springs into action. Arriving at he scene of the blaze, the Torch lends his aid to rescue a fire fighter that has been trapped in the blaze and finds evidence that proves the fire was deliberately set. Hearing that the bank has been robbed the Torch rushes to the scene and frees the bank staff who have been locked in the vault to suffocate.
Speaking to the bank manager he learns that the two crooks stole the incendiary bomb plans and before they can figure out where the crooks went the city is pelted with bombs made from the plans. Stopping a second bombardment with his flame powers, the Human Torch spots their origin point and flies off to the nearby mountains where Turgo and Patch have built a cannon to launch the bombs. When the Torch motions to destroy the cannon, they flee figuring the electrodes will do the hero in, however they have no effect on him.
The two crooks escape to their car and try to drive away, however a flame fired by the Torch makes them crash. Before the Torch can apprehend them a rock launched by the auto-wreck strikes him and knocks him out. As Patch hops onto a nearby bulldozer to crush the Torch's body, the two crooks realize that they are near the blaze that they set earlier. The flames, sensing their master is in danger rush to his aid and burn Turgo to death then come to shelter the Torch. Fearful of getting burned, Patch makes a run for it up the side of a cliff to avoid the rising flames. When the Human Torch revives, he lets out a shout that puts out the entire forest fire and then goes to confront Patch.
Patch tries to push the Torch off the cliff, however he flames on, burning the crook badly and sending him falling to his death. After the bank manager asks the Torch if he got the plans back, but the Torch advises him they burned up with the crooks and considers that for the best as they were too dangerous a weapon for anyone to possess. Later he chuckles to himself as one of the fire fighters remarks on how the fire strangely doused itself out.
- Professor Barzak is visited by reporter Randy Hayes who seems to know far too much about Barzak's shrinking potion and his Nazi ties, and that his shrinking potion is to be used to spy on a near by Air Force base. However, when Barzak tries to have his strong man Rudolph subdue Hayes he is in for a shocking surprise that both Hayes and Rudolph are members of the FBI. Finding Barzak's plot reprehensible and the Nazi scientist lower than scum they punish him by using his own shrinking potion to shrink the scientist down to the size of an insect and destroy the formula and the counter formula that would restore him to normal size.
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