Miss Fury #3 (1943)

After stopping a group of Brazilians from hanging the Nazi Bruno Beitz they turn on Marla Drake who they think is allied with him. She attempts to explain that he should face real justice instead of street justice but they don't listen as Bruno's chauffeur opens fire on the crowd. A lighting strikes the tree Bruno was to be hung from killing the chauffeur and knocking out Marla. Bruno takes Marla and flees to a hidden Nazi base in his car. Bruno makes invasion plans to take over Brazil and when Marla awakens in her cell she is confused where she is. Spotting the Nazi uniforms with a polished bowl in her cell she is soon discovered by Bruno who has her taken by Pepe Manero to his villa since knowing the location of the hideout and that there is a Nazi force in the area would make her too dangerous to let free. Pepe takes her to the villa but is accosted by Era and some guerilla fighters. Era forces Pepe out his window which leads him to fall to his presumed death off the mountainside. Era and Marla then fight it out when Era believes the reports that a woman fitting her description helped Bruno escape, but tenacity in their battle leads Era to calling Marla, Fury. After defeating Marla, Era takes her to her hideout where she meets the rest of their forces. A former gangster named Fingers Martin and a former RAF pilot named Greg Hammond. Marla explains what happens and the boys believe her but Era doesn't and she continues to distrust her even more when the man she loves Don Chico an Argentine cowboy strides in and is smitten by Marla. Collaborating Marla's story with the location and recovery of her luggage Greg takes their plane and scouts the location Marla told them about. Greg returns injured but confirms there is an army heading through the mountains. The group mount their attack with the small guerilla army of their own consisting of numerous Brazilian tribes, native citizens, and Chino's gaucho. They leave the scene but Chino returns to Marla, kisses her and tells her to take the car and leave. Era spots this but is talked out of returning given the military situation is too important to ignore. Marla packing up her things in the car accidently drops a vial of Acrothorium, a material used to disintegrate metal. The car disappears around her and she checks her belongings for more vials knowing they could be used against the Nazi army she suits up as Miss Fury and heads towards the battle. She is spotted by Albino Jo a tribal who assists Miss Fury believing her to be Era. Together joining the guerilla forces on the opposite side of the mountain using the Acrothorium she initiates the battle. The battle goes well for them until the Nazis retreat and use their grenades to make homemade glass ones to bypass the metal eating cloud that is spreading over the valley and destroying their weaponry. Bruno's Colonel betrays him and kicks him into the valley while Miss Fury and the guerillas return to their hideout away from the battle. Marla making it their first welcomes them back and tells them she insisted on staying to make them food and coffee for their return. Era goes ballistic and Marla still being there and Chino attempts to control her but this only angers he more after spotting the kiss he had returned to give her. Era lashes out and slugs Fingers on accident. Martin makes a remark about being untouched from the battle only to get slugged after just as Greg returns by plane to tell them that reinforcements of US and Brazilian bombers should be coming to counter the Nazi army. While going in for a landing he's attacked by two Nazi pilots but is able to out maneuver and destroy them. Meanwhile the Nazi officers returned to their camp. Colonel Barx happily planning his promotion now that Bruno is sure to be dead, however walking down the hill carrying Captain Werner the man who gave his life to save him is Bruno himself. Bruno chastises the officers and soldiers who abandoned their fellow men before ordering them to return to the battle and recover their corpses after which they have a burial and ceremony in their honor. Bruno then goes to speak with the man who ordered the retreat and sacrificed him for his selfish promotion, Colonel Barx. Barx pulls a gun on Bruno but before he can act he's interrupted by another soldier. Barx then attempts to make it look like the soldier was upset at Bruno's remarks and in retaliation killed him then Barx would shoot him for his deed. Bruno pulling a lamp from the ceiling slams it into Barx then chokes him to death. Bruno then addresses the concern of the bombers by disguising the military base as farmland and farmers which results in the pilots believing the whole thing to be a hoax and they call off the bombing. Bruno spotting the planes being good news as it means the weapon that destroys metal has subsided and that their appearance makes them unaware that the weapon existed so that the ones who possess it must be Era and her band of guerillas. Back at the guerilla's camp Greg is filled in on their battle while the Nazi bombs have destroyed most of the camp. Marla searches for the black leopard suit but is stopped by Albino Jo who reveals that he is actually from New York and that he can speak perfectly well before handing Marla her suit. Marla is stunned at the revelation.