Dr. Crab's Commie Comics
Dr. Crab's Commie Comics
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Comic Information
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Dr. Crab's Commie Comics is a comic story featured in Radioactive Man #1. The comic was later reprinted in Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repository Volume One.
Plot
Radioactive Man trying to capture Dr. Crab and visiting the Red Fez but Dr. Crab eluded him, Radioactive Man realizes now that he needs his own secret hideout and after found a model of a glass house, he realizes how his hideout should look out and he knows where he should place it. He built it at the Mount Zenith. Radioactive Man sitting and listening to Gloria Grand talking on the radio in her new house, Glroia and J. J. Bellwether talking there about the comics from William G. Maimes, which mining the morals of the children. When Bellwether ask in the radio all parents to throw out the bad comic books and buy his hartley comics ask Gloria if he is not blaming the Maimes for outsell his comics. Radioactive Man turns off the radio and fly to The Wzen Tower as Claude Kane III and trying to take Gloria out for a dinner, she has no time but think he should look for a next Dorr to her, Rod Runtledge, Gloria is worried at he becoming a juvenile delinquent. While hearing Claude on the news that Dr. Crab has announced at tonight will he humilate Radioactive Man for pull the biggest heist in Zenith City's history. Claude tells Gloria that he did not have time to babysit and start planning for the meeting with Dr. Crab.
Radioactive Man makes a visit to the Finger's House of Giant Props where Dr. Crab is located. Dr. Crab is pleased to Radioactive Man came and fire his atom smasher ray against Radioactive Man, and he hits Radioactive Man. Radioactive Man becomes stunned for a moment and fly right into a giant LP that fall to the ground and smashes Dr. Crabs henchmen. Radioactive Man loses his stunned and see that Dr. Crab has migratory and he starts searching for him. He sees a burglary in an electronics store and it turns out that the villain is Rod carrying a stolen TV. Radioactive Man decides not to arrest Rod and he giving him a lift home to Aunt June and he give her the TV. Radioactive Man sees Rod collection of comic books and realize they are the reason that is why he became a criminal and realizes that he must stop the comics.
The next day in Gloria's radio show tell Dr. Hedrick Hertzmann that he agreed with Bellwether on the Maimes and says that it's part of a communist conspiracy. Radioactive Man listen on the radio show, and after the broadcast, he flies into the studio to get more information from Hedrick Hertzmann. Hedrick Hertzmann tell to him that the Maime's moscow connection is Dr. Crab and he has an insatiable appetite for seafood cocktail. Radioactive Man calling all Seafood Cocktail delivery company and obtains the address of the person who made the most orders, which is Dr. Crab. Radioactive Man makes a visit to Dr. Crab which using his atomic smasher ray again, this time stubs Radioacitve Man against Dr. Crabs metal control panel that lets Radioactvie Man become electrified and Dr. Crabs atomic smash ray falls innto pieces. Dr. Crab fleeing the field of an escape rocket.
Radioative Man realize that he can not get hold of Dr. Crab today, but can stop the comics, so he makes a visit to the Congressional Commitee which discussing about the comics should be stopped but since there is no evidence against Maimes they thinking do nothing until Radioactive Man came into the room with Maime's Comics, which he found at Dr. Crab, this causes them to arrest Mr. Maime. Hertzmann talks with Gloria and tell them that they now start a cartoon conduct code program that would examine every comic book free from subversive ideas, after he left Gloria it turns out that Hedrick Hertzmann and J. J. Bellwather is the same person, he is happy that Radioactive Man made him get a bigger fortune and it was easy to find Dr. Crabs hideout and smuggle the comics to his home. Radioactive Man makes a visit to Rod again which throwing his comic books in the river for he has realized that comic books led him down the wrong path. Radiactive Man tells Rod that it was the first step to acleaner, healthier and America.
