(Kamandi #11, 12) - Sacker funded a raiding expedition of Captain Bli and his Leopard-Men pirates. Sailing the Atlantic they found a number of pre-Disaster artifacts, including cameras and video projectors. They found Kamandi floating in the sea after his hoverjet crashed, and brought him aboard. Captain Bli was amazed to see a talking human, and chained up Kamandi, knowing he'd fetch a pretty price. Kamandi soon escaped his chains, and found the ship's slavehold, where all manner of species were being kept, including humans, Wolf-Men, Lion-Men, Tiger-Men, Gorilla-Men and an enormous chained creature covered by cloth called the Devil. The Leopard-Men recaptured Kamandi, and brought their captives to Sacker's Department Store in Old Florida. Kamandi stole a guard's gun, forced him to unlock his neckchain, and fled. The Leopard-Men were ordered not to shoot to kill because of the high price Kamandi could fetch at Sacker's. Kamandi fled to Sacker's basement, and found guards keeping the Devil in check. He scared them off with a few well placed shots., and in desperation freed the Devil, who turned out to be a giant grasshopper. Kamandi scrounged resources from Sacker's warehouses, finding portraits of pre-Disaster world leaders and dictators including Hitler being sold as 'Funny Animal Pictures.' He saw humans being driven like cattle by the Leopard-Men, and resolved to free them if he could. He returned to the Devil, who he named Kliklak, but the creature caused a ruckus, alerting the Leopard-Men, who restrained them both. Sacker personally met with Kamandi, and his servant was a young woman that Kamandi mistook for his lost companion Flower. The woman was Flower's sister Spirit, and she wept when she learned her sister was dead. Sacker told Kamandi he'd give him limited freedom, and the chance to train Kliklak. Kamandi accepted, and ran deadly obstacle courses with Kliklak while Leopard-Men bet on him, but he didn't know what Sacker's endgame was. Spirit told him that Sacker was training him for Sacker's Sweeps, a race at Hialeah Racetrack where the racers were pitted against each other in a life or death battle. Spirit told him that Flower fled Sacker's when the current champion Bull Bantam began abusing her. Kamandi confronted Bull and beat him down, with Bull promising to kill him in the race.

(Kamandi #13, 14) - Kamandi fled, ending up at the stakes, where the spectators were displeased at having an animal at the track and turned him over to Sacker's Leopard-Men, who tossed him in a corral. Bull Bantam taunted Kamandi about killing him in the sweeps, but Kamandi again refused to participate. Spirit begged him to race, revealing that she was the prize of the sweeps race, and feared Bull would do to her what he did to her sister. Kamandi asked her to run away with him, but she was loyal to Sacker and refused to leave him. Kamandi took Kliklak and escaped the compound, but Sacker's helicopters fired at him, forcing him onto the track and into the race. He watched as other racers died in booby traps or killed each other, but he refused to hurt his fellow man. Kliklak was shot by another racer, and Kamandi tried to tend to his wounds, crying out for a doctor. The crowd taunted him, demanding action, and Kamandi cursed them for their cruelty. Bull Bantam, mounted on a gigantic buffalo, lassoed Kamandi. Prince Tuftan was in attendance, and shot the lasso, freeing Kamandi to the boos of the crowd. Bull critically injured Kliklak with a hand grenade and Kamandi grabbed his buffalo by the horns, blinding it and causing it to topple over. Kamandi and Bull engaged in hand-ti-hand combat, and Kamandi beat him to a pulp, berating him for his treatment of fellow humans. His victory was bittersweet because he had to put down Kliklak with one of the Leopard-Men's guns to end his pain. Kamandi was presented with prizes by a group of women, and he realized he was being treated like a thoroughbred. Spirit embraced Kamandi saying she was his, but Kamandi was furious, telling her humans were neither animals nor prizes, and the Leopard-Men silenced him with a rifle butt to the head. Sacker had enough of Kamandi's antics, and the Leopard-Men locked him in a gas chamber, but Prince Tuftan used his influence to make a trade with Sacker for Kamandi's freedom.

(Kamandi #26-28) - Ben Boxer and Kamandi ended up in the Quebec section of the Dominion of the Devils. They found a gorgeous, yet twisted rainforest inhabited with giant insects and mutated vegetation. A helicopter fired down on them, and Ben turned into his steel form, downing the helicopter with a thrown log. Leopard-Men scrambled out of the crashed copter, which was marked with the Sacker’s Company logo, and Kamandi realized Sacker must have sent them to despoil and loot the rainforest. Kamandi confiscated their guns, but everyone had to flee when someone stampeded insects towards them. Ben Boxer was trampled by a herd of giant grasshoppers, but was unharmed, and Kamandi shed a tear remembering his friend Kliklak. They spotted more Leopard-Men riding a thresher, mowing down the forest and spraying it with defoliant. Sacker had ordered the Leopard-Men to clear the forest to build a processing plant, and Kamandi badly wanted to shoot them, but Ben held him back. They ran into Captain Pypar, a bulldog, and his bayonet wielding servant, an ant named Aborigine. Pypar was a member of the Horse Marines, and was in conflict with the Leopard-Men because they’d violated their Atlantic Testament. He volunteered Kamandi and Ben Boxer as the latest recruits into the Marines, and gave them their marching orders, leading them to Aborigine’s ant-hill. Aborigine used his “look-see” power to locate Leopard-Men outside the ant-hill, so Pypar set dynamite and told his troops to march away from danger. Kamandi said they should be running, but Pypar replied that there was no breaking of ranks in his army. Outside the ant-hill they found the surviving Leopard-Men, who were occupying a well-armed citadel, running to find the source of the explosion. Pypar discovered their vast weapons cache, but some Leopard-Men guards caught them. Kamandi, Ben and Pypar were saved when Aborigine burrowed under the guards, causing a cave-in that swallowed them. Kamandi panicked, saying they were trapped, but Pypar had Aborigine use his “look-see” power to transmit images of the Brittaneks, bulldog members of the Horse Marines, riding to the rescue. They snuck through the citadel, observing more Leopard-Men gassing giant insects and processing their corpses in a power plant. Kamandi was disgusted to see a virtual Eden ruined, but Captain Pypar reminded him the cavalry was on the way, and pointed to the Brittaneks arriving. Other armies arrived and Pypar met with his commanding officer in the Brittaneks. Kamandi kept piping up, which was not appreciated by the CO, so Pypar sent him and Ben away. Kamandi and Ben explored the newly set-up army barracks, with Kamandi wishing they could extricate themselves. Aborigine’s presence annoyed Kamandi, who compared him to Gunga Din. In the barracks Kamandi red up on the Brittaneks, Germaneks, Napoleoneks, Garibaldeks, Spandars, Greks, and Torks, who formed the Band of Brothers or Nations of the Atlantic Testament Orders. They were divided by animal species, with each army having modeled themselves on a different pre-Disaster national army, and Kamandi realized they’d drawn their inspiration from a garbled version of world history. NATO laid claim to the Dominion of the Devils, and put it under their protection, explaining their conflict with Sacker’s Company. Pypar kicked them out of the barracks for snooping, and Kamandi got increasingly frustrated, saying the Great Disaster changed nothing, and that animals had adopted all the bad behaviors of man. Ben and Kamandi admired the parts of the rain forest not ruined by the Leopard-Men when they spied the Leopard-Men building up their defenses in preparation for war with NATO. Ben started ripping up their artillery, and he told Kamandi to flee. NATO approached, but were being butchered by the Leopard-Men. Unable to watch anymore senseless carnage, Kamandi stole a Leopard Man’s gun and aimed it at their ammo, acting like the animal they all thought of him as, and threatening to blow it sky-high. The panicked Leopard-Men broke ranks, and Captain Pypar chided Kamandi for not following command, but commended him for leaving the Leopard-Men vulnerable. NATO rode on the fleeing Leopard-Men, gaining the advantage. Ben and Kamandi were pleased with themselves, but decided to walk away from the whole mess.

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