Crack Comics#19(1941)

In a shocking radio address, President Roosevelt mysteriously calls off all support for England, disbands the U.S. Army, and shuts down all defense-related production, throwing thousands out of work. Senator Wright suspects, correctly, that the real president has been kidnapped. That night Tom Wright sneaks onto the White House grounds, is quickly discovered by a squad of security cops, and escapes them while changing into the Black Condor. He peeks into a White House window, and discovers that the president is an imposter, then quickly leaves before Secret Service reinforcements can arrive. The next day he tells the Fosters what he's learned, and swears them to secrecy. That night all three of them dine and eavesdrop at the notorious Café International, until Wendy gets kidnapped from the ladies' room. Foster and Wright learn about this when a telegram, from "The Hand," is delivered directly to their table; the telegram is a warning. Neither of them thinks to pursue the messenger. Tom slips outside and changes clothes, then the Black Condor searches the area, finds The Hand gang's getaway car, follows it, then follows their airplane, then follows their boat, and it's daylight by the time they all arrive at an abandoned lighthouse, beside the Gulf of Mexico. While Condor is watching the lighthouse, two thugs sneak up on him, and another is nearby with a rifle; in the ensuing fight, the Black Condor is shot, and captured. He's chained to a column inside the lighthouse, within conversing distance of the kidnapped, tied-up president. The plotters light the fuse on a dynamite bomb, leaving FDR and the Condor behind, and taking Wendy with them, they depart in a seaplane. The Black Condor breaks his chains, defuses the bomb, grabs the president, and flies out into the open, but the bad guys have already gotten away. After over an hour of flying over the Gulf, Condor and Roosevelt spot a large warship, sailing alone, with no marker lights. It's a German battle-cruiser, and the Black Condor very stealthily places the president in the "crow's nest," then flies around the upper decks, knocking out lookouts, until he finds the gang from the lighthouse, in a chart room, gloating and bragging with their German Navy buddies. He pretty much cleans up that room with them, then marches one of them, "Dutch," at raygun-point, to where Miss Foster is being held. Dutch tries to double-cross him, and locks him in the compartment with Wendy, but he again uses his ray gun, to blast a hole through one bulkhead, then to shoot down Dutch. The Condor and the president (who definitely is walking) then take over the ship's radio room, and send an urgent message to the federal government, countermanding all of the earlier orders made by the presidential imposter. The captured warship is sailed into Chesapeake Bay and moored at Norfolk Naval Base, and FDR holds a press conference, and publicly credits the Black Condor with thwarting the whole vile plot. Also the FDR imposter has already been arrested.