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Part Two ...the
Plan to Kill the Super Friends Wonder
Woman, Super-Man, Bat-Man, the Flash, Zatara, the Blue
Beetle and Doctor Mid-Nite.
by
Mark Walter Meredith
The international jewel thief called the Bat stated, "I'm willing to make a gambit that you are wondering why one has called this group of strangers together, here".
Popeye said, "I've heardz of youse. The police haves a huge bountyz on yerz headz".
The Bat replied, "Yes this is very true, but as Phantom and Lamont Cranston knows from the invitation I 'had send' to them that I know who they are really. Please, I ask of you all, do not attempt to turn my-self in-to the police authorities. Trust me on this. The persons in the room wouldn't want these two forces that do good in this world to be revealed to the world. Just imagine Phantom's relatives in America being destroyed by criminals. Imagine Lamont Cranston's life being destroyed and him not being able to go on as crime-fighter in 'general'."
Monarch Valiant said, "What is to stop us from taking you down before you tell the world anything? Phantom has guns, 'Gordon' here who I've talked to earlier in this room has a metal sabre hanging at his side in a sheathe, who knows what weapons Cranston has. 'Gordon' has only learned swordplay from experience but I as royalty was taught fencing 'at younger age'. I DON'T know about Cranston and Gordon andPhantombut what is to stop me from pulling Gordon's sword from Gordon's scabbard and putting it through your heart like, just out of principal?
"Bat" merely replied, "I can answer that question in three ways, but instead I'll answer that question this way ….. Of course, you've all noticed 'the spread of comic's' books 'fanned out' on the desk. Action Comics number 20, Detective Comics issue 43, Sensation Comics One, Flash Comics one, Action Comics issue One and Blue Beetle issue advance copy issue One. All of you have heard of the new artistic genre called comic book magazines. Am I right? You across the room. I am pointing at you, now. You, sailor, tell me … E.C. Segar has approached you about doing a cartoon strip about how your circle of friends has gone on adventures to the island of the Goons and such. Affirm this, Popeye, yes or no?"!
Instead of saying yes, or no nor maybe; Popeye merely nodded silently.
Bat then continued, "I have had detectives research this fact. My friend, sailor, you have agreed to be in the strip THIMBLE THEATER. The rest of you who have had their families and friends' histories chronicled and told of in comic strips have had your histories researched by cartoonist artist-writers and have begrudgingly accepted that you have had your lives and family histories chronicled of in 'Sunday comic strips'. You must have seen the emergence of the genre of comic book reprints of our comic strips. Some of you must have had some pride about creating this new art genre artistic medium called comic funny books with your strip reprints. Maybe I'm wrong. Suddenly, then came a copy of Detective Tracy called DETECTIVE DAN. Suddenly comic book publishers were creating their own comic strips to fill up the comic funny books they made on their own. All of your cartoons were still in comic funny book magazines, but there was a cancer eating away at our creation, comic books. Companies would put out cartoon funny book strips about reporters mostly; sometimes they would have funny books' magazines devoted to stories about detectives. There was a detective character in Detective Comics called 'Dr. Occult' based on a detective who takes on only mysteries based on black magick. The creators of this strip are called Jerry Siegel and Joseph Schuster. Later the first issues of a new 'book' magazine called merely Action Comics needs a cartoon strip to go along with a planned strip about a magician named Zatara. After hearing rumors about a being named Super-man for a while, Mr. Siegel and Joseph Schuster publish a comic strip called merely Super-man. According to my detectives it took National Publications seven months to figure out it definitely wasn't Zatara that had caused the major sales in this 'record breaking' comic book. National gave the Super-man strip its own self-titled comic book named 'Superman.' Everyone was dying to know the true identity of this mystery man named the Superman and soon there was a strip in Detective Comics about a detective that wore a mask while operating called the Bat-Man. Soon came another caped mystery man written about by Mr. Siegel who could do almost anything in God's power named the Spectre. Then another caped man with a 'domino mask' that was as powerful as Superman being named Green Lantern. Superman has created a trend in being a mystery-man hero in public and has created a new genre in 'funny books' magazines called 'super heroes'. With the advent of World War II has come a trend of patriotic heroes. Red Circle Comics, the producer of Archie Andrews comics has created the first patriotic mystery man called the American Shield. Timely inc has switched from Pulp Fiction magazines such as the ones that published stories of me to switch to comic book magazines about a patriotic hero named Captain of America. Gentlemen …the genre we created and invented ourselves is being taken away from us. The end of the 40's will have taken comic magazine history away from us. It doesn't take a much to figure out that most of you do not want that. In interviews with a news'woman' named 'Lane' the Superman has admitted to basing his career on Popeye and his costume on 'Gordon'. Bat-man has based his career on Zorro and obviously mine" …. .
Kit Wilson the Phantom said, "What am I doing here, then"?
The jewel thief said, "All will be explained in time, my friend, but nevertheless to be said there is a super hero called the Blue Beetle that has a costume based on your design. … A mask that covers the hair and the edges of the face along with a 'domino' mask like your usual adventuring costume that you wear in Africa to fight modern pirates. The only difference in costume tights is Beetle wears all blue full body tights as you wear a purple full body suit tights. Does that answer your question Wilson"?
Mr. Wilson the Phantom replied, "Sufficiently. I have heard enough. I will listen some more". …. .
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