Overview
In the heavy mist of the waterfront in New York City, the Black Condor watches as a guy gets jumped on and stabbed. Condor intervenes, and punches the knife-man into the harbor, then grabs the stabbed man, and flies him to Municipal Hospital. According to the examining doctor, this guy will die in an hour, because the only doctor who could save him is the eminent surgeon and lung specialist Dr. Patche, who at this moment is in Chicago, giving a lecture. Black Condor flies from New York to Chicago, finds Patche, grabs him out of the hall in mid-lecture, and flies him back to New York, all in under an hour.
The Black Condor visits the slum tenement where the unnamed immigrant's unnamed wife and their crippled son Jackie live. They're being shaken down by gangsters, who threaten to have them deported; the gangsters are led by Monks Gallagher. The Condor assures them that everything is going to be all right, then he visits Gallagher's magnificent office, and starts punching out Monks and his two bodyguards. He forces Gallagher to write out a nice check to little Jackie's family, warns the crooks that they're now out of business, and flies away. Well no sooner is he gone than Monks is on the phone to his man Slugs, wanting the crippled kid kidnapped and a cement trap set up in a particular warehouse.
Monks waits until dark then, figuring correctly that the Condor is probably still watching, he leaves his office, sprints to his car, peels out, and drives to a waterfront warehouse, then goes inside. Black Condor soon arrives and goes inside, and he's much too quick to be taken out by having a big vat of wet cement dropped onto him. Monks and three hoods step into view with their pistols out, but the Black Condor pulls out his black ray pistol and uses it to shoot the conventional pistols out of their hands, then punches all four of them out. Then he finds little Jackie, and gives him a sky ride back home, and gives the big check to Jackie's mother.
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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
1 1941
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