History: (Sea Devils #14) - The Sea Devils entered an Atlantic underwater relay race with a $50,000 prize, and the Devils put the Sea Witch up as collateral to win the prize and donate it to their fans the Junior Sea Devils. Everyone was impressed with the Devils’ altruism except for entrant Karpas, an evil ocean scientist whose racers were an octopus, a manta ray, a sea lion, and a merman that he‘d trained. The judges cried foul, but he said the rules didn’t state the team had to be human. He provided midget subs for the Devils and himself to observe the proceedings. The Devils were getting trounced, with the sea creatures being more adapted to the environment, and with Karpas cheating at every turn. Judy was the last racer, and was set against the merman. The merman out swam her until he ran into an undersea net, and was threatened by an electric eel. Judy couldn’t let him die to win the contest, so she defeated the eel, and set him free. In gratitude the merman turned against his master and let her cross the finish line. Karpas planned never to lose, and had set a time bomb aboard the Devils sub. The Devils escaped, but an undertow caused Karpas’ sub to collide with the one he gave the Devils, and the resulting explosion killed him.

Comments: Created by France Herron & Jack Abel.

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