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- Thomas Andrews, the controlling stockholder of the Mercury Realty Corporation, gets kidnapped, and his company starts to disintegrate, and The Spider is framed. The Spider sends his chauffeur Harry to the stock exchange to find out who's buying up all the Mercury shares, and he then visits the Andrews estate, punching out one security cop on the way in, and scares the jeebers out of Mrs Andrews , while playing along with the Spider-as-kidnapper scenario: he wants his half-million ransom NOW. She does act pretty guilty. Harry the chauffeur shows up and talks his way onto the property, without punching out any rentacops, bringing the news that Andrews's own broker is buying up all the shares. Then a swarm of cops show up, and the Spider & Harry punch their way out of the place and flee, but they hang back just enough to lure the cops away from the Andrews house, so Mrs Andrews can make her obvious next move, which is to put together half a million bucks in cash and drive away to a secluded cabin, where of course Mr Andrews is hiding out. The Spider meanwhile has shaken the cops AND spotted Mrs Andrews AND followed her here. Andrews stupidly pulls a gun and gets his wrist pinned to the wall with an arrow, then The Spider takes the ransom money, and later has his man Harry redistribute it to the Mercury shareholders who lost money.
- The Black Condor, who still has no real "civilian" identity, takes his first trip to America , when the he is asked by the Rajah of Singat to protect his daughter, while she sails from Calcutta to New York, carrying a priceless ruby. Black Condor acquires some snappy American tweeds and boards the same steamship. The notorious Ras Gyn seeks to steal the ruby aboard the ship taking her to America, and is also aboard. At R.G.'s signal, the ship is sunk with a submarine-launched torpedo, but the Black Condor flies about helping the crew and passengers, including the rajah's daughter, escape to lifeboats. When they reach New York, a week later, Black Condor loses track of the girl, then scans the city from the Empire State Bldg's observation deck, and sure enough, in a window that luckily is facing toward the E.S.B., there are Ras Gyn's minions, choking down the princess. They steal the ruby from her, and throw her from a window. Black Condor aerially rescues her, then pursues the badguys' getaway car, stops its engine with his black ray gun, and reclaims the jewel. Finally, he tracks down Ras Gyn himself, at the airport, and gets headkonked with a big wrench. The crook tries to escape by plane, but the Condor catches him, and again kills an engine with his black ray gun, yanks Ras out of the cockpit , and turns him over to the authorities. Condor's remarks indicated that he didn't like the city, and intended to leave it ASAP.
- The gold-bullion-laden SS Iris gets torpedoed from the seaward side, and robbed by part of its own crew, off the coast of Maine. This is the 3rd such incident. By absolutely pure luck, Madam Fatal elsewhere foils an attempted public assassination of Betty Gordon , niece of famous inventor John Gordon, who has just recently retired to Windward Castle on the rocky coast of Maine, and behaved likea cranky recluse ever since. Stanton formulates a suspicion, but says nothing, and a week later he arrives by canoe at the base of Windward Cliff, then changes into his Madam Fatal get-up, THEN scales the cliff. At the castle, Betty & Jack show up to confront the inventor, and get jumped by Gordon's assistant Slade and HIS assistant Max, who is real tall and inexplicably dressed in a weird red robe w/ hood. Madam Fatal jumps on Max from about two stories higher up in the castle, and konks his noggin with his granny walkingstick, gets his keys, finds and releases inventor Gordon. The half-clever weapon used by the main badguy is a cliff-mounted torpedo launcher, shooting torps out to sea which then curve back and strike their targets from the seaward side. By dint of some drape-swinging and bludgeon-wielding, Madam Fatal beats up Ross and his henchies, and wrestles Ross right off the cliff to his doom.
- The Clock pulls off a risky, elaborate, and complicated ruse to get a squealer to squeal.
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