Overview
The Black Condor is asked, via a note tied to a condor's foot, to safeguard the daughter of the Rajah of Singat. She is traveling from Calcutta to New York, carrying a priceless ruby. Black Condor acquires some snappy American tweeds, and boards the same steamship. The notorious Ras Gyn (who is recognized by the Condor) is also aboard, and seeks to steal the ruby during the voyage. At Gyn's signal, the ship is sunk, with a submarine-launched torpedo, but the Black Condor flies about, helping the crew and passengers, including the rajah's daughter, escape to lifeboats.
When they reach New York, a week later, Black Condor loses track of the girl, then scans the city from the Empire State Building's observation deck, and sure enough, in a window that luckily is facing toward the E.S.B., there are Ras Gyn's minions, choking down the princess. They steal the ruby from her, and throw her from a window. Black Condor aerially rescues her, then pursues the bad guys' getaway car, and stops its engine with his black ray gun, and reclaims the jewel.
Finally, he tracks down Ras Gyn himself, at the airport, where he gets headkonked with a big wrench. The crook tries to escape in an open-cockpit biplane, but the Condor catches him, and again kills an internal combustion engine with his black ray gun, yanks Ras out of the cockpit, letting his biplane crash somewhere below. Condor turns Ras over to the authorities.
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TACTICAL VERDICT: Mister Mxyzptlk triumphs with an estimated 63% win probability. Raw destructive energy projection (100 vs 24) proved insurmountable in prolonged exchanges.
3-Round Encounter Breakdown:
Mister Mxyzptlk dictates early tempo, utilizing superior speed and reflexes (100 vs 17) to evade initial advances and land decisive precision strikes.
Mister Mxyzptlk counters with devastating offensive potency (100 Power rating), breaking through A-Bomb's forward defensive perimeter.
Exploiting an opening in the late exchanges, Mister Mxyzptlk's elite martial execution (50 Combat) overwhelms A-Bomb, landing the closing blow to claim the battle.
Publication history
7 1940
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