The injured
Miss America crashes through the window of Liberty Legion headquarters, surprising
the visiting Invaders. She tells of how she and Whizzer were waylaid by Battle-Axis
and Whiz captured; she also heard the baddies mention Los Angeles and Dr. John
Goldstein as their next stop. Thin Man has to stay behind but offers to contact
other heroes out west and ask for their aid. Miss America joins Captain America,
Sub-Mariner, and Human Torch in their Atlantean airship as they head to
California….
In Hollywood, a
pair of police officers spot a dirigible and go to investigate; they are
distracted by Spider Queen and electrocuted by Volton and their car stolen. Dr.
Death, Strongman, and Human Meteor (with an unseen ally) head out for the next
step in Operation Mojave, while their pilot, Sky Shark, itches at playing such
a subservient role….
In L.A., Namor and
Torch arrive at the home/lab of Dr. John Goldstein and discover Dr. Death is
already there—with Goldstein’s brother Jacob, who turns into the Golem, now
serving the Nazis. Golem battles the two heroes, knocking them both out as the
house catches fire. On Dr. Death’s orders, Golem carries off the Human Torch,
leaving Namor to die in the blaze. He is rescued by the Blazing Skull,
contacted by the Thin Man about aiding the Invaders. Skull caries him to safety
and Namor topples a water tower to regain his strength and they head out to
find the Torch….
Captain America and
Miss America have gone to the UCLA science labs where they find Strongman,
Spider Queen, and Human Meteor have killed some staff and are planning to steal
a huge oscillotron. They burst in and there is a battle with Cap and Miss A
being overpowered and knocked out. Then the baddies are confronted by the
Silver Scorpion, a female hero who is unused to the costume and about to be
overwhelmed when Cap and Miss A recover and send the bad guys fleeing without
the huge machine but believing they learned enough from the scientist before
they killed him. Cap and Miss A ask Silver Scorpion who she is; she tells them
she is Betty Barlow, secretary to private eye Dan Hurley (and in love with him)
who has just been killed along with Professor Carson who created the suit. While
quite inexperienced, she insists on coming with the Invaders as she overheard details
of the baddies’ Project Mojave….