Crack Comics#17(1941)

Jaspar Crow pushes a bill thru the U.S. Senate, imposing a $10/person tax on all Reservation Indians. Tom Wright argues passionately against it, then returns home to his high-rise apartment, where two gunmen are there to take him to meet their boss. Senator Wright instead jumps out of the room thru a closed window, then changes into the Black Condor on his way to the ground, and flies away unseen. Twenty-four hours later, voting time has come and gone, and Senator Wright was absent. The Indian Tax Bill passes the Senate without any dissenting votes. That very day, from his secluded hideout, Jaspar Crow sends his hoods out west to start collecting the tax, ahead of the real Treasury agents. The Black Condor arrives there, throws a big scare into Jaspar Crow, and sends him and his chauffeur racing away in a panic, but doesn't pursue them. In reservations across the nation, conversations between Federal officials and Tribal Councils are growing increasingly heated. Also some foreign agents arrive in these places, and stir up some deadly serious trouble. Soon there are murders, then raids, then massacres and evacuations. The Black Condor flies out to one large reservation and confronts one chief. He uses his Black Ray pistol to convince the Indians that he's been sent by the Great White Father, and when some foreign agents try to shout him down, he breaks some jaws, but it doesn't persuade his audience. That meeting breaks up violently, with Condor rescuing one anti-conflict Indian youth, and flying him away. Black Condor learns of attacks planned for the Colville Dam, a grain elevator, a Santa Fe station, and other targets; he alerts the State Governor to all of that. National Guard cavalry is dispatched to the dam, but it's too late, the bomb-planters, on their ponies, are already fleeing the scene. No, wait, the Black Condor soars into view, spots the dynamite keg, swoops and lifts it, then flings it into the reservoir just before a terrific detonation! Condor then intercepts the wild riders, en route to the grain elevator, and uses his Black Ray pistol to stampede their ponies away from their target. Guardsmen watch the headlong retreat, but do not pursue. From his altitude, Black Condor spots a fleeing foreign agent, overtakes his fast car, snatches him up into the sky, where he finds a nearly-empty airplane flying along, and forces his way into the cabin. The pilot is dragooned into turning his plane into a flying paddy wagon, as the Condor jumps out and returns with new spies, again and again. The pilot flies all these traitorous punks to the nearest Indian Reservation, to get put into Federal custody. Back in Washington, in the Senate Chamber, the Indian Tax Bill again comes up for a vote, and this time is resoundingly defeated.