Speaker 1: The Avenger.
Speaker 2: Road to crime ends in a trap that justice sets,
crime does not pay.
Speaker 1: The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil, is actually Jim Brandon,
the famous biochemist. Through his numerous scientific experiments, Brandon has
perfected several inventions to aid him in his crusade against
crime as the Avenger. Most remarkable of these inventions is
the highly secret diffusion capsule, which cloaks him in the
black light of invisibility. Brandon's assistant, the beautiful fern Tire,
is the only one who shares his secrets and knows
that he is the man the younger world fears as
the Avenger, and now the Avenger and death counts ten.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. This sports broadcast was brought to you
from Red Garvin's training camp at Green Lake. As all
you sports fans know, Red Garvin meets Silk Cross tomorrow
night at Randley Stadium in the big fight that will
decide which of these spiders will meet the champion in
six weeks. Your sports cast will be at the ringside
tomorrow night, so be sure to tune in until then.
This is Ted Florie signing off. Good night. Okay, we're
off the.
Speaker 4: Air, Fans, all right, Red, let's go to work.
Speaker 3: How about the heavy some look I call this, Jim.
We drive all the way down here to Green Lake
to watch Red Garvin work up and run plumb into
a radio.
Speaker 4: Broadcast we could have heard at home.
Speaker 5: Take it easy, Inspector. Red's going to punch the back
a little for those sports riders. That'll give us a
fretty idea of the shape he's in. This way, Inspector.
Speaker 3: Parish, Red Garvan can't be much of a fighter, Jim
silk Ross is an eight to one shot to knock
him out.
Speaker 5: To my Redd is a great slugger, and he has
plenty of heart, but he throws away too many punches.
Silk Ross can out box Red, and there's very little
doubt about that there is over there. Oh yeah, he's
got a good hook too, you know.
Speaker 4: Eh, Red looks pretty good at that punching bag.
Speaker 5: Yeah he does. But it's not too hard to get
the range of a punching bag.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess not.
Speaker 5: Listen, Inspector, you don't have to beat around the bush
with me. I know why you're down here at Green
Lake because too much smart money in town, says silk
Ross has a sinch to put in Red. And there's
even a rumor making the rounds that says Red has
been fixed to throw the bike.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, Jim, A boxing commissioner sent me down
here to take a look around.
Speaker 5: Well, let's find Red's manager, Jack Hogan. I know Hogan
pretty well. We can ask him a few plain questions.
Speaker 4: Where do you suppose Hogan is?
Speaker 5: Well? I saw him going to all the house a
few minutes ago. It's this way, say Inspector h isn't
that fellow going toward the gate? Doc Born silk Rosses trainer.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What do you suppose Dark is doing here in the
to make camp when he was a big battle?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I'm certainly going to ask Jack
Hogan about it.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't even know Doc Vaughan. Who's hanging around here, Jim,
But I've sent Red. We'll see if he knows anything. Okay, Hogan,
say wed Inspector White Gull.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's out in the yard having a talk with
the sports riders. Nah, say Hogan, what's your honest opinion
about this fight? Do you think Red has a ghost
of a chance against silk Ross?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: I do, Jim, If my boy keeps his head out
there tomorrow night the north. No, here comes Red now,
m he looks like he's mad about something.
Speaker 3: Is a matter of Red, said Doc Vahan. Jack just
where laid me off? At me a price? He could
dive to my eye?
Speaker 5: Why the dirty So you didn't lay a glove on him?
Speaker 3: Did you read? Nah?
Speaker 5: But I've halt like murdering him. Where's he now?
Speaker 3: I ordered him out of camp. He had sense enough
to make tracks quick.
Speaker 1: How do you like that ross outfit trying to fix
this fight? So Silk will be sure to have a
chance at the title. And you're not gonna let them
get away with the thing like the jay. No right
into town and have it out with robins, he manages Silk.
He must be behind me and a Hogan just a minute,
take it easy.
Speaker 5: He can't take a thing like this lion down. Jim.
Speaker 1: This is Red's big chance. I'm not gonna let anybody muffet.
Speaker 5: That's just it. If there's any more scandal about this fight,
the boxing commission will call it off. Yeah, that's right.
What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 6: Jim?
Speaker 5: I gotta teach them monkeys a lesson, Hogan, Why don't
you handle it this way. Let everything ride until after
the fight. Yeah, then you and Red sign a written
complaint against Docborn. That would be the fairrest thing as
far as Red is concerned.
Speaker 3: Oh, unless you like Brandon, says Jack. How did it
flatten their weason on the spot? On the eye? Do
you want to get into no trouble just before the fight?
Speaker 1: Okay, but I'll fix one for this. I'll see to
it that he's washed up in the fight game if
it's the last thing I do.
Speaker 6: Gosh, this stadium is passed, yes, Sarn.
Speaker 5: Even though Ross is a heavy favorite, this fight seems
have caught the imagination of the public.
Speaker 6: And he's a wonderful seat right next to the broadcast man.
Speaker 3: Oh, here comes Ted Florie. I guess it's time for
the main doubt. Hello tedik Jim, fine, say, by the
looks of the gate, you think the odds worried, and.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't you If it turns out to be too dull,
We'll just close her eyes and listen to you. Ted, Uh,
you know how to make a horror fight sound good?
Speaker 3: Jim, I call him away. I see him, but I
have to keep the things away. Oh.
Speaker 6: Look, the fighter is the getting into the ring. Jim,
which one is red dog?
Speaker 5: Oh, the redheaded one in the perico.
Speaker 6: Trunks, and you look about the same side.
Speaker 5: Well, silk Ross has a longer reach.
Speaker 6: Oh look, Jim, that messenger just gave silk Ross a
white paw. He's an orchid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jack Ogan always presents Red's opponent with an orchid
just before a fight. But why well, Hogan thinks that
lowers them a row. You know, fighters a terribly.
Speaker 6: Superstitious Well, evidently silk Ross listen, look he's pretending to
smell it and making a face.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, this is Ted Florin' speaking for you from the
ring side at Frimley Stadium. In just a moment, Red
Garbin and Silk Cross will meet here in the ring
in a fifteen round bout to decide which of them
will become the challenger for the heavyweight title of the world.
In the meantime, let me take this opportunity to say
a few words about my Sponto bring to the glove.
Fighters have been introduced. The ring is clear, Whighters there
in the corners waiting, and there goes the tongue for
the rest. Brown fighters come out of their corners, charge
into each other. In the middle of the ring. Silk
cross lands a hard rain on the jaw Red garbin
what Red seem to ride it with a punch. Red
is holding his guard high now and Silk is trying
desperately to move in. Red strikes out with a quick
one too, that right and Silk's teeth. Then they go
into a pitch. The referee breaks them and Silk patches
Red with them moving right to the temple. Now, then
we get a counter and left. That third round was
really exciting. This Red garmin can slug all right, even
if he is a little wild. Red landed the left.
The bots Silk sighing that round and don't let up,
and there goes the warning pleasure off frown coming up.
Let me see there, Yes, sir, they're luffing Silk's face
with a towel. Jack Hogan is getting read some last
minute instructions, and there goes the gun. They come out
with a pot and Red throws the left. That goes mild.
Now Red is measuring soil carefully if they move around
in the middle of the ring. Both fighters are beginning
to look tired. Read the tanks with the lightning left
and right. The Silk's taw. Silk is shaken. Red pushes
at the drantage and hits up with another straight left,
and Silk goes down. Red pulls to a neutral corner.
The re brace starts counting four, five, six, seven, eight
dime change, and Red Carbon is the winner by on
counting the floor places some upset boats. Silk Cross is
still unconscious. They've taken him to his corner. Everybody is
tanging by while the doctor examines him. That makes you.
There's about half a dozen policemen pulled in in the ring,
and Jim Brandon was sitting here beside me a moment ago,
just crawled in through the ropes. Just a minute now,
there seems to be something wrong on there. Wait, wait
a minute, I'll here. I'll have it for you in
a moment. Now, what is the what's wrong on there? Yeah, hey, gentlemen,
a terrible thing has just happened here. Sir Ross is dead.
Speaker 6: I thought we were to meet the inspector down here
at headquarters.
Speaker 5: Jim, we're to await for him, parn he's checking something
for me.
Speaker 6: Oh well, in the meantime, suppose you tell me what happened.
Speaker 5: If the autopsy Silk Ross didn't die from those blows.
Red deltum prene what happened?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 5: Silk was weakened by some kind of gases, Yes, something
that doped him just enough to slow down his breathing
and lower his resistance. When Red hidden, he was knocked
unconscious and the dope prevented a natural recovery.
Speaker 6: Oh then Red god and WoT he held was responsible.
Speaker 5: Not unless it can be proved and Red administer the
gas as well as the blow. So far we haven't
the enable to determine what kind of gas was used,
and therefore we don't know when it was administered or how.
Speaker 6: I don't see how Red could have done it. Jim oh, Jim, Mmm,
what about those orchids Red manager sent Silk? Could they
have contained the gas? Remember silk smelled them?
Speaker 5: Yes, I remember that. But we recover the orchids and
tested them, nothing doing well.
Speaker 6: It seems to me the Red and the men in
his corner were the only ones who had a motive
the killing Silk. They seem to be the only ones
who were betting heavily on Red to win.
Speaker 5: We're not sure about that yet. Burn Ah, Hello, inspector,
how'd you make out well.
Speaker 3: Jim Dark Bond placed big bets on Red to Wind.
Speaker 5: Hmm, that looks bad. Doc tried to bribe Red to lose.
Red refused, and then Doc turns around and that's money
on Red to Wind.
Speaker 4: It doesn't seem to make sense. Jim.
Speaker 5: Oh, perhaps to keep the odds riding at eight to one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then I if Red one Dark stood to clean up.
Speaker 6: Oh, but Doc was Silk's training.
Speaker 5: Stranger things than that have happened in the ring, frim
Come on, Doc Vaughn has some explaining to do.
Speaker 3: Okay, Brandon speak, plain? What do you want here?
Speaker 5: Where's Doc Vaughan Robbins.
Speaker 3: I don't know. He ducked down after Silk gout?
Speaker 5: It ducked out. How do you mean that?
Speaker 3: I mean the Duc paid up what he owed me
and drifted. That's all.
Speaker 5: Any idea where he went?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Why should I have any idea where he went? You'll
learn early not to ask any questions in the fight
came Brandon. Doc probably mope around in the sticks for
a year or two until he comes across another good
boy like Silk. When that happens, then I'll hear from
him again.
Speaker 5: I suppose Doc paid off what he owed you with
some of that eight to one money. He went on, Garvin,
what's that you had me? Doc better pile and read
to win that fight? And I think you know where
he got that betting money.
Speaker 3: Be careful what you say, Brandon. You know that's the
same as saying Dark and me double crossed Silk. I
don't like that.
Speaker 5: Listen to here, Robins. Somebody double cross Silk cross and
I don't intend to stop until I find out who
it was.
Speaker 3: And why don't you go to work on Jack Holgan?
This fighter gets a chance of the title now at
Silk's dead, Why are the cups laying off of him?
Speaker 5: Because so far this case is wide open. We have
no more to write to suspect Hogan than you.
Speaker 3: Hogan had plenty of money on Red to win, and
Red bet heavily on himself too. How he explain that
when all the smart money.
Speaker 5: Was on Silk winner loose. A fighter is always willing
to bet on himself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe, but a smart manager like Hogan, isn't you
better go to work on that ankle instead of snooping
around here?
Speaker 5: I said the case was still wide open, Robbins, Well,
if you think Doc Orry had anything to do with
Silk's dead, and you're crazier than I give you credit for.
Speaker 3: Why should I want to kill off my own fighter
when he was a six to beat right anyway and
get a crack at the title in six weeks?
Speaker 5: If money was the motive, is silk death. He had
to be killed while the odds were on him in
the title match. The odds would have been on the champer.
Speaker 3: Listen, if you could prove anything like that, you wouldn't
be standing there yapping about it.
Speaker 5: That's right. I'll keep you posted, Robins. In the meantime,
we'll expect you to cooperate on this case. Sure, otherwise
you can count yourself out of the fight game for good.
Speaker 1: Now to the Avenger and death counts ten?
Speaker 6: Is that red Goggle playing camp? Just to head that,
Jim looks rather deserted. Why didn't you want to come
out here? Jim?
Speaker 5: The inspector call and told me to drive down right away.
I don't know what's going on here.
Speaker 6: Oh here we are intor to do it.
Speaker 4: Hello, Come right in, Jim, we're waiting for you.
Speaker 6: Want me to wait outside?
Speaker 5: Come along, burn all right?
Speaker 4: Glad you made it in time, Jim, Come inside.
Speaker 5: What's going on here, Inspector?
Speaker 4: Doc Vaughn called me and told me to meet him
out here. He's promised to spill some information. He'll wind
up this case.
Speaker 5: It's a frame up, Jim, That's what it is. How
do you mean, Hogan?
Speaker 1: It's Doc vaughan business. Why should he pick my camp
for his confession? Why didn't he go to city inspector
at headquarters?
Speaker 5: We'll ask him that when he arrives. He must have
some reason for it.
Speaker 1: He's just trying to get Red and me in wrong,
that's all.
Speaker 5: Where is Red? Hogan did his hotel? And Tom?
Speaker 1: Well, I get some work to do in the office.
Speaker 3: Hold me to watch.
Speaker 4: I'll do that.
Speaker 5: Hogan's right about Doc coming here, Inspector. Uh, that doesn't
look good.
Speaker 3: It maybe a dozen, but there could be an angle
in that for a while, or maybe Doc Vaughn intends
to tell us that the killer of silk Gloss is
right here.
Speaker 4: At Green Lake.
Speaker 5: You mean Hogan?
Speaker 3: Yeah, both Hogan and the raider are still on my
list of suspects.
Speaker 4: What's up now?
Speaker 5: It's Hogan? He's calling from the porch. What is it, Hogan?
What's happened?
Speaker 6: Look?
Speaker 4: Inspector what why it's Stark. What happened to him?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I found him in a heap right
here at the door, Begger, look at him, Jim, Right,
Doc Vaughan is dead. Inspector sy will run off the
fight pictures for I was in a minute Fern.
Speaker 6: Jimmy, do you want to see the pictures of the fight?
I thought the case was just about solved now that
the inspectors arrested Jackson for the murder of Doc Vaughan.
Speaker 5: Oh, the inspector and I don't know, we see eye
to eye burn.
Speaker 6: Well, isn't it reasonable to suppose that whoever killed Doc
also killed Silk?
Speaker 5: Yes, that's reasonable enough. Doc and Silk died from the
effects of the same gas.
Speaker 6: Then it must be Hogan. Why he was the only
one who was on the spot when Doc died. Now,
I think Doc was going to expose Hogan his Silk's killer,
so Hogan murdered him before he had a chance to talk.
Speaker 5: Well for the time being, that's exactly the way the
case ends. Go ahead, Sie, give us the first round
and then jump to the end of the third.
Speaker 6: Oh oh, look, Jim, there we are in the first row.
M oh, Chad Flory moved right between us and the camera.
Speaker 5: You never mind us, young mady. Keep your eye on
the fighters, all right.
Speaker 6: Nothing strange happened in that first round, Jim okay Si.
Speaker 3: Now give us the end of the third and what
there was of the fourth. Got that in slow motion.
Speaker 5: Watch closely, now, Urn Silk seemed all right until the
beginning of the fourth. There that was the blow that
cuts Silk's eye at the end of the third. Now
watch Doc and Robin's work on that cut when the
round ends.
Speaker 6: It seems strange to watch these pictures without frown. This
is the end of the third. Gosh, Doc and Robins
don't lose any time, do they.
Speaker 5: Doc is pouring disinfected on sult side.
Speaker 6: Robin says the bandage is ready.
Speaker 5: Dark applies the bandages.
Speaker 6: Then Robin's holds a wet towel over Silk's face.
Speaker 5: While Dark applies eyes to the back of the deck
m Then Silk comes out for the fourth round.
Speaker 6: Silk seems a little gygion.
Speaker 5: Yes, even before I read later glove on men that round.
Speaker 6: Now they're in close. Look at Ted Floory, Jim, He's
so except he's almost inside the ring.
Speaker 5: Red Hood silk with a left and the right another left.
Well silk goes down.
Speaker 3: Now, ok Si, that's all thanks a lot.
Speaker 6: Well did you find out anything, Jim?
Speaker 5: Yes, I think I did, furn. Now all I have
to do is go to work and try to fit
together the evidence so that it will stand up in
a court of law, and that won't be easy in
this case. Come on, Well, how's.
Speaker 3: It going, Red Band?
Speaker 5: And now that you've been cleared in Silk's death by
the boxing Commission and the police, are you going to
take on the champ?
Speaker 3: And I don't know yet, Jack holding in jail. I
don't think I stand a chance to beat the champ.
Guy needs a smart manager and his corner to win
a title. Back it.
Speaker 5: Well, it seems a shame for you to pass up
a chance of the title, Red, after working so hard
for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but very much I can do about it.
Speaker 5: Well, I think if I were in your shoes, Red,
I get myself a smart manager and take that fight.
Speaker 3: Well what do you want with me, mister Robbinson? I
sent for your Red because I hear you're looking for
a manager. Yeah, yeah, I am. Well how about me, Red?
If you and I can get together there's no reason
why we can't grab off that title for you. I
don't know, Robbins, after what's happened, it don't seem right
somehow for you and me to hit you. Why not?
You're a fighter without a manager, and since Silk's gone,
I'm a manager without a fighter. Seems logical enough to me.
You think I got a chance to take the chance.
Sure you have if I am in your corner. I've
been studying the Champ style for two years. He's got
plenty of weak points. Red. He'd be a sucker for
that straight left you showed in a fight with Silk. Well, eh,
I do tie up with you, Robinson will only be
for this one match. As soon as Hogan gets out
of trouble, I go back to him. Sure right, Sure,
When you're a champ, you can do whatever you want.
Is it a deal?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: I get Hogan wouldn't want me to pass up this
chant the title? I'll say you wouldn't. Okay. Let's get
the camp tomorrow, kid, and we'll go right to work.
Speaker 6: Go Jim. Is that small bottled inspectors Men found at
Red's training camp a clue?
Speaker 5: It certainly is vern This bottle proves conclusively how Silk
and Dock were murdered. It contained a deadly gas formed
from chlorine and carbon monoxide. It can be condensed to
a liquid and when in hell, has serious respiratory effects.
If enough is inhaled, it can cause almost instant death.
Speaker 6: That certainly sounds like the murder weapon, Jim. But who
could have administered it?
Speaker 5: I think I know how that was done. Vern, Get
the car out. We're going to make another trip to
Green Lake, Jim.
Speaker 6: Every time we come out here to reds Camp, Ted
Flory is here. I didn't know. Sportcast has had so
much time on her hands.
Speaker 5: Oh, Red Garviner's news now, Vern, he's in the big
time at last.
Speaker 4: Well, love your hurts and the news, Jim, what news?
Speaker 3: Infector Hogan's been released on bail.
Speaker 5: You don't say? Is he here at the camp?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's in Robin's office now.
Speaker 3: I don't like the looks of this in all, Jim,
there's sure to be trouble here. Robins has moved in,
you know, and Hogan hates him that point. Where are
you going now, Inspector, I'm going to Warren.
Speaker 4: Robins and Hogan is here. I'll see you later.
Speaker 6: I don't understand this, Jim. Why the root did they
let Hogan out of jail?
Speaker 5: I bailed him out for him?
Speaker 6: You bail out?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 5: It was the only way to bring things to a head.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 5: You go over there and talk to Ted Flory for
a while.
Speaker 6: Where are you going, Jim?
Speaker 5: There'll be fireworks in the office within the next few minutes.
Burn and I think the Avenger should be there to
see them.
Speaker 1: What kind of a double dealing game? Do you think
you're playing?
Speaker 3: Rock? And I'll take it easy again. You're all wrought
up and you got the wrong slant on it.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just beginning to see through this mess. The
minute I was out of the way, you stole my
fighter from me, I was.
Speaker 3: Still a red of favor, that's all. We figured that's
the way you'd want it. After all, you couldn't do
right any good in jail. Wait a minute, what was
that noise?
Speaker 5: I don't know, seemed to come from that open window for.
Speaker 3: Just a minute. Now, I'll see what. There's nobody here. Hey,
what's the matter of Hogan? You look wobbly on your pins.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm all in.
Speaker 1: I guess I am unable to eat her sleep for
days worrying about Red.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, uh you better sit down. Yeah, just take
a whiff of this. What is it smelling? Sauces, take
the cork out and inhale very deeply.
Speaker 5: Don't open that bottle, Hogan?
Speaker 3: Who said that? Who's in here?
Speaker 5: It's the Avenger Robins, and I've got the goods on
you at last, the Avenger Hogan. Deliver that bottle to
inspect her White and tell him to come here at
once to arrest Robins for the murder of Silk Ross
and Doc Vaughan, well for him here puts on the
Robin's case. Will you type them up with the inspector.
Speaker 6: Please, yes, sir, you know I'll be glad to get
this case in the record book and out of the way.
Speaker 5: Yes, it was pretty unsavory all the way through. Even
though Robin's didn't intend to kilk Silk, he did intend
to weaken him and throw the fight so Red would win.
Speaker 6: And Robinson Doc could flee up a small fortune. Doc
was the one who hit on the idea of the gas,
wasn't he That's right for him? Then Robins killed Doc
because he was going to confess.
Speaker 5: Yes, Robbin's had Doc trailed every minute after Silk's death,
and he was waiting for him. When he arrived at
Green Lake. He gave Doc the SA gas treatment he'd
given Silk, but in his excitement to make a quick getaway,
threw away the telltale bottle.
Speaker 6: But Jim, if Robins and doc knew Silk was going
to lose the fight, why did Doc try to bribe
Bread to throw the fight. That wasn't necessary.
Speaker 5: That was merely a way of making sure Red would
fight doubly hard. They wanted to make certain the fight
would go three rounds at least, so that when Silk weakened,
it wouldn't look pony.
Speaker 6: Jim, what was the clue that told you Robins was guilty?
Speaker 5: In the moving pictures of the fight, it was evident
that Silk was perfectly all right until Robins held that
towel over his face just before the fourth round. When
the inspector's men found that bottle that had contained the gas,
I realized that could have been used on the towel.
Speaker 4: All the symptoms checked.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm glad Robins won't be around in Red fight
for the title.
Speaker 5: After your experience at that last fight, I don't suppose
you will be present either.
Speaker 6: What what do you mean, Jim, I've already ordered our tickets.
I love seeing myself in the movies.
Speaker 1: All characters, names, places, and plots used in the Avenger
program are fictitious. Any similarity to person's thing or dead
is purely coincidental.
Speaker 3: This is a thought, a thought, a thought.
Speaker 5: Remember listen for another adventure of the Avenger