Mystic Comics #4 (1945)

Criminal Killer Bane is on the run from the police and ducks down a nearby alley. There he spots a kid hiding and attempts to use the lad as a hostage to escape the authorities. He manages to get away from the cops and climb up onto a roof top, threatening to kill his hostage if anyone should try to interfere with his escape. Passing by, the Young Allies witness the situation and decide to try an help save the boy. Rushing up to the roof of the building the Young Allies distract Killer Bane long enough for Toro to use his flame powers to scorch Bane forcing him to let the boy go. With the hostage safe, the Young Allies then pile onto Killer Bane and beat him to a pulp before turning him over to the authorities. Killer Bane is sentenced to death and is sent to the electric chair and executed. As he is being electrocuted, Bane vows to come back from the grave and get revenge against those who sent him to death row. After Bane's body is buried, the graveyard caretaker, Professor Malgus, digs up Killer Bane's remains and brings the corpse back to his secret laboratory. With a special serum, the caretaker brings Killer Bane back to life. When Killer Bane revives and learns what Professor Malgus had done, he then kills the scientist. Soon Killer Bane begins a violent crime spree, as he is already dead nothing can harm him or cause him pain. When the Young Allies learn of the spree they attempt to stop him. When Toro gets too close, Bane uses his Tommy Gun to blast holes in the side of a fire truck and douse Toro's flames. He then flees the scene, taking Bucky and Toro captive. When the authorities arrive, the other Young Allies attempt to explain that Killer Bane was responsible, but nobody believes them. Meanwhile, at his secret hideout, Killer Bane has bound up Bucky and Toro in a room that is slowly filling with water. While elsewhere, the Young Allies go to the graveyard where Killer Bane was buried to search for clues. Finding Bane's unearthed grave and footprints, the Allies follow them to the Bane's mansion hideout. Rushing inside, they find the deathtrap set for Bucky and Toro and free their comrades before they can drown. Attacking Killer Bane once more, the Young Allies lose him in the mansion's various secret passages. With no leads on where to find Killer Bane, Bucky suggests they return the next day to search some more. While elsewhere in the mansion Killer Bane finds Professor Malgus' notes and decides to create an army of undead crooks to assist in his crime wave. He digs up the graves of three other killers: Strangler Carson, Monk Kain, and Lippy Dirk. Taking their bodies back to the lab, Killer Bane then uses the Professors formula to resurrect the three other killers. The quartet of walking dead men then begin another wave of crimes which prompt the Young Allies to continue their hunt. Toro tracks the killers back to their mansion hideout where they clash once more. Realizing that fire is the killers' only weakness, Toro sets the house ablaze and the Young Allies flee as Killer Bane and his gang are burned to death.