Captain Midnight #42
In "The 20th Century Slaves," Captain Midnight finds himself stranded in a desolate town after a storm forces a crash landing, only to be wrongfully sentenced to a brutal chain-gang labor camp. As he uncovers a hidden system where innocent men are enslaved on a private plantation, he takes action to expose the injustice. Leonard Frank handles both art and inks for this gripping 1946 adventure.
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Encountering a violent storm, Albright puts his plane down and then heads into a shabby town for repair parts. Termed a troublemaker, he is found guilty and sentenced to 30 days on a chain-gang that is working a private plantation. He discovers that innocent men are being used literally as slaves for a plantation owner, so Midnight puts a stop to that.
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