(Fight Comics 011, 1941)
Just when the futuristic (i.e., early 2000s) nation of Greater America thinks that it can relax, it is simultaneously attacked from both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans! Acting quickly, Saber, aka the Spy Fighter, super-powered Head of Greater American Espionage, sets out to discover who is behind this dastardly deed.
Saber uses his telepathic abilities to trace the impulses that are directing the armies to an isolated outpost where he finds a fellow variously referred to as the Hermit, the Hermit Militarist and the Lonely Genius but most frequently and most accurately the Master Mind. Saber finds that not only is the Master Mind a fellow telepath but that he has discovered the secret to transferring his mind to the mental plane, meaning that merely killing him will not stop the invasion as he will continue directing it as a disembodied intelligence.
Undaunted, Saber acquires an experimental disintegrator ray and uses it to wipe out the Atlantic force (wild that he feels the need to do so after demonstrating the ability to grow to the size of a small moon not one issue earlier). Returning to confront the Master Mind, he ends up blasting him in self-defense, and true to his word, his (master) mind lives on to direct his remaining forces (and no, I do not know why the disintegrator isn’t used on them as well).
In a bit of a sad anticlimax, Saber and the disintegrator’s inventor Professor Lerno just buckle down and tinker for a week before snuffing out the Master Mind’s mind with a short-wave radio signal.
Categorized in: Body (Minds), Power (Mental Communication, Mental Projection), Supercrime (Attempted Conquest)
