Overview
In Washington DC, Senator Tom Wright sponsors the "Wright Mining Bill," mandating better working conditions for miners, which is voted down and goes back to committee. Pennsylvania mine owner Jaspar Crow opposes the bill, with outright thuggery directed against some U.S. Senators.
At Crow's mine, the disappointed workers finally rally themselves up for a strike; and the Mayor needs a pretext for sending in the militia, so a company foreman gets mysteriously shot dead one night, and soon the company town is under martial law. That night just outside of town, a secret meeting of the miners' leadership is raided by a hooded goon squad of whip-and-club-wielding fake vigilantes; there's a melee; the Black Condor crashes into the shack and beats down several bad guys; one squealer tells him about a dynamite charge planted at the mine entrance. Just then the charge goes off; now several miners are trapped below ground. Meanwhile two more hooded gunmen sneak into the room behind the Black Condor but he punches them both out, then flies off to the rescue. The "black ray" (firing a red beam) eats a gaping hole in the sheer rocky wall, and the Condor flies in to search for survivors, finding and rescuing at least two. Outside the mine, the torch-waving hooded fake vigilantes are gathering for the next skirmish, but one miner tells the Black Condor where to find some big bags of coal dust, which ignites explosively when he drops it across the bad guys' flaming torches.
Shortly later he visits Jaspar Crow's office, beats up two more large thugs, and tells him, in mid-fight, "... and this is a promise from Tom Wright to put that law through." But when he looks around, Crow is already gone; it's not clear whether the villain heard the hero blurt that out or not. The Condor then calls (from Crow's office phone) the Governor of Pennsylvania, speaking as Tom Wright, and tells him the trouble is over and the militia can be recalled. And later on, the Wright Bill does come up for another vote and this time it passes.
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Mister Mxyzptlk dictates early tempo, utilizing superior speed and reflexes (100 vs 17) to evade initial advances and land decisive precision strikes.
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Publication history
4 1941
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