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Appearing in "Madman of Terror Mountain"
Featured Characters:
Human Torch
Toro
Villains:
The Madman of Terror Mountain (Only appearance; dies)
Synopsis for "Madman of Terror Mountain"
Professor Svengali, a mad scientist, has created an army of gigantic robots in a bid to obtain world power. He sends his robots to destroy Keystone Bridge, leading the military to send forces to attack the robots. When their weapons prove ineffectual against the robots, the military calls in the Human Torch and Toro for assistance.
The pair follow the robots foot prints to Svengali's hideout where they clash with the robots. Unable to damage the machines with their flames, the Torch and Toro hold back and follow them back into their masters secret lab. There they try to capture Professor Svengali, but they are subdued with an electric shock that incapacitates them.
They are placed in a large glass bowl and left to suffocate. Quick thinking, the pair cause the bowl to topple and smash open over the Professor's atom smasher. Using their flame powers to destroy the robots controls, the Torch and Toro attempt to capture Svengali and his men. When Svengali douses Toro's flame with an Alum bomb, he attempts to kill the boy with an axe. A fireball from the Torch causes Svengali to recoil, and fall backward into his own atom smasher, killing him and ending his threat.
Appearing in "Case of the Electric Killers"
Featured Characters:
Sub-Mariner
Supporting Characters:
Nazis
Master of Death (Only appearance; dies)
Villains:
Synopsis for "Case of the Electric Killers"
The Sub-Mariner is in Florida with the daughter of Professor Ensen a brilliant scientist who is among repatriated Americans returning home aboard a ship. As they wait, the Sub-Mariner hears screams from the beach below. Diving down onto the beach, Namor finds that those in the water have been killed by electrocution.
Swimming out to sea, Namor spots an American tanker being jolted with massive amounts of electricity and swims to its aid. The ship explodes before Namor can help, and the hero spots a Nazi bathysphere in the water. Boarding it he fights the Nazi's on board who begin to fill the vessel with water and unleash electric eels to kill Namor. Both Nazis end up dying instead, and one tells Namor that he cannot stop their master, the so-called Master of Death.
Suspecting that they are targeting the passenger ship carrying Professor Ensen, Namor swims out to meet it and finds a Nazi sub down below that uses a light beam to send eels out to their targets. Boarding the sub, Namor attacks the Master of Death who knocks him out by dropping a steel beam on him. He then has Namor bound to it with chain and dumped into the ocean.
Revitalized by the water, Namor breaks free and makes a return attack on the sub. Spotting Namor, the Master unleashes all his eels and trains the light beam on the Sub-Mariner. Out swimming the eels, Namor removes the light and shines it on the Nazi sub, sending the eels upon it. The resulting jolt of electricity destroys the sub, causing a massive explosion that kills all aboard. With the threat over, the ship carrying the Professor safely lands ashore.
Appearing in "The Horror of the Secret Weapon"
Featured Characters:
Miss America
Supporting Characters:
Uncle Jim
Villains:
Nazi Spies
Synopsis for "The Horror of the Secret Weapon"
As a pair of Nazi spies survey the Crosby-Electric plant, they begin planning to blow up the dam to knock out the electricity in New England. Elsewhere, Madeline Joyce and her Uncle Jim are heading to the Benson House Electric company, owners of the Crosby electric plant, so that Jim can conduct a routine check-up.
As they drive down the road they almost get into an accident with another vehicle, forcing them off the road. With their car incapacitated Jim goes off to find a gas station leaving Madeline with the car. Finding the incident suspicious, Madeline changes into Miss America and flies after the car. She spots the car pulling into a building and the men inside forcing a woman to follow them. Racing after the two men. Subduing one of the men and flying up to the upper floor of the window. She spots the Nazi spies are trying to get a scientist to hand over his designs for a floating torpedo by threatening his daughter. The scientist cracks and agrees to give them the information.
Miss America then smashes through the window, but during the fight she is pistol whipped from behind and tied up. Taking the floating torpedo plans the Nazi spies flee the scene. Coming to, Miss America manages to free herself by breaking the binds and learns from the scientist and his daughter that the Nazis plan on blowing up the dam at the power plant.
Flying to the dam, Miss America easily subdues the Nazis and taking the torpedo tosses it into the water away from the dam where it explodes harmlessly. With the spies turned over to the authorities, Miss America flies off before she can be thanked.
Appearing in "The Case of the Vanishing Head"
Featured Characters:
Patriot
Supporting Characters:
Mary Morgan
Villains:
The "Mad Uncle"
Synopsis for "The Case of the Vanishing Head"
A young woman is caught with a decapitated head and taken to the hospital for shock and kept under police observation. Reporters Jeff Mace and Mary Morgan go to the hospital to get the story and trick the guard at the door to let them into the girls room when Mary pretends to be the girls sister.
Recognizing Mary, the girl snaps out of her state of shock and takes the officers gun. Holding Mary and Jeff at gun point she demands that Mary help her get in touch with the Patriot. As Mary is trying to explain that she has no means of contacting the Patriot, Jeff turns off the light and changes into his costume. While the girl is distracted he tackles and disarms her.
Helping the girl sneak out of the hospital where she suggests they take her uncles car as it has been left behind. As they get into the vehicle and drive off neither the girl nor the Patriot know that there is someone hiding in the back seat. The girl explains to the Patriot that she has no memory of how she ended up at the scene of the murder. Just then the man in the back seat -- the girls uncle -- reveals himself and order the Patriot to drive to his home at gun point.
There the uncle -- who is murderously insane -- explains to them that he frame the girl and the he is not her real uncle. Activating a trap door, the Patriot and the girl fall into the mans basement where he reveals that he has been keeping the heads of his murder victims in glass jars and that he intends both of them to be his next victims.
Disarming the man of his gun, the Patriot struggles with him when he pulls out a knife. As the two men struggle, the girl recovers the gun and shoots her "uncle" dead, ending his threat. Later, back in his civilian guise, Jeff remarks to a colleague how Mary has grown jealous when the Patriot left her to assist the girl in danger.
Appearing in "The Talking Corpse"
Featured Characters:
Angel
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Rene Claire (Only Appearance)
Synopsis for "The Talking Corpse"
While out on a walk the Angel narrowly avoids a speeding car that crashes. Checking the body inside he finds that the person is dead but notes that due to the discoloration of their face they were not killed in the automobile crash. When an officer arrives on the scene, the dead man is identified as Jean Claire, the son of millionaire Monty Clare. The Angel asks the officer to have the coroner provide him with a report and then goes to inform Monty of his sons death.
Meeting with Monty Claire to discuss Jean's death, the Angel is introduced to Jean's twin brother Rene and the family lawyer. When the Angel mentions that his son was murdered and asks if he had any enemies, Monty cannot recall anyone who would want to harm his son. Returning to police headquarters the coroner tells the Angel that Jean died of poison, confirming his suspicions. Meeting with the Clare family lawyer, he learns that Rene has a gambling addiction and that he owes a large amount of debt and that Morty's will stated that upon his death the family fortune was to be split evenly between the two brothers. With Monty's health failing, the money would then go entirely to Rene.
Suspecting that Rene had murdered his own brother, the Angel decides to play onto Rene's guilt and frighten a confession out of him. Finding a record player in Rene's room, the Angel prepares records where he pretends to the the ghost of Jean and accuses Rene of murdering his twin. The recordings frighten Rene into making a confession. When the Angel attempts to apprehend him Rene fights back but is quickly knocked out. The final blow causes an urn to fall over revealing the bottle of poison that Rene used to murder Jean and turns Rene over to the authorities.
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