(Leading Comics #2) - Sylvester's father brought him to a bank to leartn about finance, even though he protested that it was interrupting his anthropology studies. Criminals Captain Bigg, Brain, Falseface, Hopper and Rattler posed as city workers, and broke a water main. The hydraulic pressure wrecked the bank's wall, and they robbed it, affording their escape by changing clothes and impersonating police officers. Sylvester told Pat that there had to be some mastermind behind such a crime, and team-up of notorious criminals, so they resolved to call a meeting of the Seven Soldiers of Victory. The Soldiers followed a trail of gunpowder the criminals' truck left behind, and it led to a train station. They discovered film reels from the crooks mastermind, the Black Star, who directed them to split up for his planned crime wave. The Soldiers split up to the locations the villains were headed. Shining Knight went to New Orleans to pursue Falseface. Falseface and his crew disguised themselves as memorial statues to commit a robbery. With all the bizarre costumes at Mardi Gras they blended right in. Dressed as clowns they attempted a train robbery, but the Shining Knight was had arrived and foiled the crime, even though the gang escaped. They later posed as Mardi Gras officials and told the Knight they were awarding him best costume. They led him to their hideout and opened a trap door that dropped the Knight and his steed Victoiry in a net. They covered him in lime, which started to harden, and Falseface told the Knight he' soon be a statue. They left for the big score, and Shininbg Knight managed to free himself and leap into a water tank that dissolved the lime. J.J. Ennis called a meeting of Mardi Gras officials to make sure they could keep his valuable Star Sapphire safe during the celebration. Falseface and his gang posed as police officers guarding Ennis' house and held up the officials. The Shining Knight was expecting them, and quickly rounded up the hoods. Sylvester and Pat went to Key West, ostensibly so Pemberton could study plankton, but they investigated Captain Bigg, who posed as the Santa Claus pirate. Bigg and his crew of pirates pursued and boarded ships, and then gave away fabulous riches. The American Avengers went into action, and boarded Bigg's ship, discovering an arsenal on board. They knew he was scheming, but Bigg managed to knock them out with a mast, and tied them to the swinging hammers of a buoy before sailing off. Stripesy used his brawn to free them, and after boarding Thomas Dolan's luxury yacht, and Bigg's next stop, they convinced Dolan to allow them to hide in his safe. Biggs finally made his play, being allowed to board and revealing his Santa act was a scam to surprise Dolan, who had two million in bonds on board. He opened the vault only to find the American Avengers inside, and with the benefit of surprise they defeated Bigg and his crew. Star sent Hopper to Pleasure City to rob the art collection of eccentric millionaire Mr. Coburn, who dressed as a hobo. He kept a fortune in art on his person, but the location of his greatest treasures was unknown. Hopper lured him in with a rigged carnival game, but Green Arrow and Speedy were on the scene and rescued Coburn, taking him on a roller coaster to get away from Hopper. Unfortunately the eccentric was also a paranoid, and pushed the heroes from the coaster before being caught again by Hopper. Hopper made him reveal the location of his treasure as the carnival attraction Castle of Fear, and once inside Hopper had his men stand guard while he tortured Coburn for the exact location. Arrow and Speedy followed, with Arrow taking lead and his sidekick as backup. Arrow trapped Hopper's gang, but Hopper got the drop on him with a gun and made no bones about it that he'd loose no sleep over killing the hero. At that moment Speedy started exploring the castle, and fell through a trap door, landing right on top of Hopper. In the Twin City Crimson Avenger and Wing pursued the Brain to a twin convention. They found a group of men pumping gas into the convention center, and went into action. They beat back the men, but their quarry escaped, leaving behind only a specialty scalpel. The gas temporarily made the twins look different from each other, and the heroes couldn't understand the motive. They followed up their one lead, the scalpel, and tracked it to Dr. Carse, a famous surgeon. He admitted that he was behind the gas, not the Brain. His client, Mr. Bandler, suffered from helium poisoning, and needed a twin with a rare pituitary condition for a blood transfusion. Twin Bobby Leeds was that man, as the gas revealed by not affecting him, but the Brain had kidnapped him. The heroes agreed to bring Leeds back to Bandler on the agreement that he'd give Bobby the free choice of wether or not to donate his blood. Avenger and Wing found Brain's hideout, and rescued Leeds, but Bandler went against his word and had his henchmen apprehend them. The Brain had followed the mysterymen, and revealed that he still had custody of Bobby, the man the heroes rescued was his twin Billy. He demanded a ransom, but the heroes overpowered the mastermind and his men. Bandler apologized for his behavior, revealing that the Brain was his twin, and had spent his life tormenting him. Given the choice of his own will Leeds agreed to help. The Rattler was sent after a rare stamp owned by three men in Big City. He killed two of them, and his torture techniques forced them to reveal that Mr. Wilkins, who had physical possession of the stamp, was staying at the Sixty Kiddie Club, where seniors got to relive their formative years. Rattler disguised himself as a senior, and booked himself in. He had his gang of thugs dress up as Native Americans and set fire to the place to force Wilkins to save his stamp, but Vigilante and Billy Gunn interfered, ruining his plan. Vigilante found his gang's hideout, but Rattler got the drop on him with a gun, and tied the heroes up in the desert next to a poisonous snake. Rattler decided to torture Wilkins, and left the heroes to die. They escaped, but Rattler fended them off, knocking out Vigilante with a rock before fleeing. Back at the Club, Vigilante caught up with him, seeing through his disguise because his hands were stained red from the rock he used, and took him into custody. Black Star had planned for his henchmen to fail all along, and was pleased at Rattler's lack of success. Once Mr. Wilkins produced the stamp the Star snatched it and fled. Wilkins warned that the stamp was the key to a rare radioactive element. Vigilante called together the Sevenb Soldiers, and Wilkins explained that he once worked at a chemical firm that discovered a ray that could enlarge any organic life. They decided it was too dangerous to exist, so they hid each of the radium-elements needed to make the beam, and hid them in a useless object. Their clerk Mowse had observed them, and took the identify of the Black Star to reassemble the elements, using his henchmen's crimes as a distraction. Black Star used the ray on himself, and challenged the Soldiers to meet him at his castle. The heroes fought their way past giant birds, rabbits and insects before confronting the villain. Stripesy knocked him cold, and he fell in front of the black light ray, being enlarged until his body crashed through the earth and he was crushed by his own weight. The Seven Soldiers were thrilled by another victory for justice.