Captain Midnight #56
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Menace of Mammoth Caves," Captain Midnight takes center stage as the key witness in the trial of Jagga, the Space Raider, whose shocking claim of non-human status throws the courtroom into chaos. Written by Otto Binder and illustrated by Leonard Frank, this 1947 adventure sees Midnight pursue Jagga into the depths of the Mammoth Caves, where the stakes rise as the Space Raider’s true nature is tested in a confrontation that defies both law and science. Dan Barry’s dynamic cover captures the tension, setting the stage for a story that blends courtroom drama with high-stakes sci-fi action.
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Captain Midnight becomes the star witness against Jagga, the Space Raider, who then surprises everyone on the courtroom when he announces that he is not a human being, therefore the laws of the nation do not apply to him! Even so, the court finds him guilty, and is sentenced to death, but further shocks all when the electric chair cannot kill him and he makes good his escape. Midnight tracks him down and leads his to his personal laboratory, when Jagga is supposedly killed by Midnight's radioactive ray machine.
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