Post by Admin on Nov 28, 2022 10:28:08 GMT
It was a dark and stormy night. A ship appeared on the horizon. Suddenly, a shot rang out!
A few seconds later, the flare exploded, illuminating the beach on the tropical island of Arctica, where Ralph Dixon and Ray Piper stood, watching the ship hopefully. They had been marooned on Actic Island for years, and though they had won the favor of the island's inhabitants (in fact, the King had askes Ralph to consider being the next king!) they both were anxious to return to their own mileau. A minute or so later, flare burst over the ship. Ralph quickly fired another, and once again the ship replied.
"Looks like we're finally going home, son!" Ralph exulted. Ralph was a full blooded Apache; his warrior name was Fighting Hawk - and he'd been getting mighty bored recently - Arctic Island had its challenges, but he was familiar with them all by now, and was eager to pit himself against something new.
Ray replied bitterly. "You're a famous explorere with millions of dollars, and the publisher of 'Idle Hours Investments' magazine, and you work for the CIA, and all that's great... for you. But why should I want to go? I was never anything more than the cabin boy and gopher on your yacht, a charity-hire from the slums... but here I'm the 'World's Best Archer'" In the flickering light of the flare, Ray say Ralph frowning. "Sorry! "The World's Best Boy Archer'! But I'm just as good as you, anyway, and when you're gone, that's what they'll finally say about me!" He pointed to the village on the bluff overlooking the beach, where most of the island's earlier inhabitants were sleeping.
"Well, if that's the way you feel, Ray, I won't force you to come back with me. But think it over carefully one more time, will you? Looks like we'll be able to leave in ony a few hours!"
Ray thought for a second. "Say, do I still work for you? I mean, ever since we crashed here, you never fired me and I never quit..."
"Hmm... I guess so," Ralph responded thoughtfully. "So... I guess I owe you some money. Buck fifty an hour, 60 hours a week straight time, 171 weeks, $15,390. Two-twenty five, time and a half, another 40 hours a week, 171 weeks, another #15,390. And hazard pay the other 68 hours a week, times 171 weeks, $116,280. Call it $150 grand. But you'll have to come back with me to get paid - I doubt if they'll cash a check for me on this ship! And the cash wouldn't do you much good here, either. Not even good for TP..."
Ralph had rattled off the numbers as fast as he could speak, but Ray knw they were accurate. On the one hand he was stunned by the amount - to a former street urchin turned cabin boy, that was more money than God had. He knew Ralph was joiking, sort of - but he was also sure that Ralph would instantly pay him at least that amount if he insisted. On the other hand, he wasn't really interested in money, if he stayed here he wouldn't need it, but he'd be without his best friend. He'd never really thought about the choice before, never believed they might be rescued. He was glad he only had a few hours to think it over, but he realized it might be a choice he'd analyze over and over again throughout his life.
"I'll think about it!" was all he said in response.
A prison break. Why is Dr. Diamond in the prison? He is interviewing one of the prisoners, the mad scientist Alfonso Borcia's henchmen, looking for clues to Borcia's whereabouts.
Prison Break! One of the guards is tries to intervene; he is overwhelmed and one of the prisoners takes his gun and attempts to shoot him. On the balcony above, young Jason Hightower sees what is going down and doesn't like it!
"They are not going to shoot 'Old Zeke' if I can help it!" he thinks to himself. "He's always tretaed me right!" He climbs up on the rail and jumps, landing feet first on the convict with the gun. The gun goes off, which alerts someone, and the alarm goes off. Jason is overwhelmed, and one of the crooks picks up the pistol
"We woulda got away clean without you buttin' in, punk. Here's where you get yours!" He is about to pull the trigger when the door to the room explodes inward, and his shot goes wild as Dr. Diamond crashes in. In instants, all the cons involved in the escape are fighting him, and the con with the gun sneaks around behind him, looking for a clear shot. Hightower has just clawed his way up off the floor and he dives on the man with the gun, deflecting the shot and taking a flesh wound. 10 men can't really take out Dr. Diamond - in a flash, he has flattened several of them, and then priso guards swarm in and the rest all surrender.
Anthony Conrad explorer who fell into a underground tropical cavern in the arctic
Ralph Payne us intelligence agent (the Arrow)
Jeff Dixon Apache, lawyer (the Bronze Terror)
John Courage the Marksman, never misses
Alan Bidell the scarlet arrow, young and rich (and arrogant)
Tom Hallaway the Spider, rich
Jon Dart magazine editor, Swiftarrow, uses a crossbow
Name: Ralph Dixon (society name)/ Itza-chu / Fighting Hawk
superheroine in purple leather costume
sidekick(s)
Diana partner of Boomerang
Lance Cooper boy partner of the Green Knight -
Ray Piper
He is a skilled wrestler, boxer, swordsman, and archer, but he does not possess any superhuman powers.
Defeat a giant in wrestling, slay a fearsome dragon-like beast called a Tyros, and defeat the best archer in the kingdom in a duel.
A few seconds later, the flare exploded, illuminating the beach on the tropical island of Arctica, where Ralph Dixon and Ray Piper stood, watching the ship hopefully. They had been marooned on Actic Island for years, and though they had won the favor of the island's inhabitants (in fact, the King had askes Ralph to consider being the next king!) they both were anxious to return to their own mileau. A minute or so later, flare burst over the ship. Ralph quickly fired another, and once again the ship replied.
"Looks like we're finally going home, son!" Ralph exulted. Ralph was a full blooded Apache; his warrior name was Fighting Hawk - and he'd been getting mighty bored recently - Arctic Island had its challenges, but he was familiar with them all by now, and was eager to pit himself against something new.
Ray replied bitterly. "You're a famous explorere with millions of dollars, and the publisher of 'Idle Hours Investments' magazine, and you work for the CIA, and all that's great... for you. But why should I want to go? I was never anything more than the cabin boy and gopher on your yacht, a charity-hire from the slums... but here I'm the 'World's Best Archer'" In the flickering light of the flare, Ray say Ralph frowning. "Sorry! "The World's Best Boy Archer'! But I'm just as good as you, anyway, and when you're gone, that's what they'll finally say about me!" He pointed to the village on the bluff overlooking the beach, where most of the island's earlier inhabitants were sleeping.
"Well, if that's the way you feel, Ray, I won't force you to come back with me. But think it over carefully one more time, will you? Looks like we'll be able to leave in ony a few hours!"
Ray thought for a second. "Say, do I still work for you? I mean, ever since we crashed here, you never fired me and I never quit..."
"Hmm... I guess so," Ralph responded thoughtfully. "So... I guess I owe you some money. Buck fifty an hour, 60 hours a week straight time, 171 weeks, $15,390. Two-twenty five, time and a half, another 40 hours a week, 171 weeks, another #15,390. And hazard pay the other 68 hours a week, times 171 weeks, $116,280. Call it $150 grand. But you'll have to come back with me to get paid - I doubt if they'll cash a check for me on this ship! And the cash wouldn't do you much good here, either. Not even good for TP..."
Ralph had rattled off the numbers as fast as he could speak, but Ray knw they were accurate. On the one hand he was stunned by the amount - to a former street urchin turned cabin boy, that was more money than God had. He knew Ralph was joiking, sort of - but he was also sure that Ralph would instantly pay him at least that amount if he insisted. On the other hand, he wasn't really interested in money, if he stayed here he wouldn't need it, but he'd be without his best friend. He'd never really thought about the choice before, never believed they might be rescued. He was glad he only had a few hours to think it over, but he realized it might be a choice he'd analyze over and over again throughout his life.
"I'll think about it!" was all he said in response.
A prison break. Why is Dr. Diamond in the prison? He is interviewing one of the prisoners, the mad scientist Alfonso Borcia's henchmen, looking for clues to Borcia's whereabouts.
Prison Break! One of the guards is tries to intervene; he is overwhelmed and one of the prisoners takes his gun and attempts to shoot him. On the balcony above, young Jason Hightower sees what is going down and doesn't like it!
"They are not going to shoot 'Old Zeke' if I can help it!" he thinks to himself. "He's always tretaed me right!" He climbs up on the rail and jumps, landing feet first on the convict with the gun. The gun goes off, which alerts someone, and the alarm goes off. Jason is overwhelmed, and one of the crooks picks up the pistol
"We woulda got away clean without you buttin' in, punk. Here's where you get yours!" He is about to pull the trigger when the door to the room explodes inward, and his shot goes wild as Dr. Diamond crashes in. In instants, all the cons involved in the escape are fighting him, and the con with the gun sneaks around behind him, looking for a clear shot. Hightower has just clawed his way up off the floor and he dives on the man with the gun, deflecting the shot and taking a flesh wound. 10 men can't really take out Dr. Diamond - in a flash, he has flattened several of them, and then priso guards swarm in and the rest all surrender.
Anthony Conrad explorer who fell into a underground tropical cavern in the arctic
Ralph Payne us intelligence agent (the Arrow)
Jeff Dixon Apache, lawyer (the Bronze Terror)
John Courage the Marksman, never misses
Alan Bidell the scarlet arrow, young and rich (and arrogant)
Tom Hallaway the Spider, rich
Jon Dart magazine editor, Swiftarrow, uses a crossbow
Name: Ralph Dixon (society name)/ Itza-chu / Fighting Hawk
superheroine in purple leather costume
sidekick(s)
Diana partner of Boomerang
Lance Cooper boy partner of the Green Knight -
Ray Piper
He is a skilled wrestler, boxer, swordsman, and archer, but he does not possess any superhuman powers.
Defeat a giant in wrestling, slay a fearsome dragon-like beast called a Tyros, and defeat the best archer in the kingdom in a duel.