Jack Ingram
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Jack Armstrong volume 7
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English
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Jack retains consciousness long enough to douse the poison gas bomb with sand, saving himself and Uncle Jim. Later, Pierce joins them, still pretending friendship, to look for Vic Hardy. They are trailed by Blair who, when questioned at length, gives them false directions to Hardy's location. Pierce radios Zorn, using a miniature transmitter, that the party will pass near a secret well. A net camouflage is thrown over the well opening. Jack, Uncle...
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Jack Armstrong volume 12
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English
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Jack, unharmed by the fall, escapes his opponent, commandeers Grood's truck and rescues Uncle Jim and Billy. They cannot carry off the Beam Gun, but take the activator tube, an important part of the weapon. Pierce starts out for the underground laboratory to find a substitute for the activator. Jack and Uncle Jim also head there determined to smash Grood's diabolical scheme to dominate the world. The two parties meet and fight. A door to the laboratory...
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Jack Armstrong volume 15
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English
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Jack parachutes to safety as the Areoglobe explodes, killing Zorn and other Grood henchmen and destroying the master death machine. REgaining consciousness, Vic Hardy demands that Grood sign a full confession of his guilt. Jack, Uncle Jim, Billy, and Betty enter the secret laboratory just as Grood overpowers Hardy. Grood escapes to a secret airfield where a plane is waiting. But Jack is right behind him. In the fight between Jack and Grood, the arch...
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Jack Armstrong volume 10
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English
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The knives fly wild when two shots ring out. Uncle Jim arrived with Billy and Umala just in time. But they are surrounded by hostile natives After a fight between Umala and Naga (Frank Mario), Princess Alura's traitorous prime minister, with Umala victorious. the white men are freed, and Princess Alura resumes her royal throne. Meanwhile, Grood learns that Jack and his friends plan an attack on the underground stronghold. The Cosmic Beam Annahilator...
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Jack Armstrong volume 13
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English
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The figure in the path of the death ray was Pierce and he was killed, Grood's henchmen capture Jack and Uncle Jim and take them to the laboratory. But Vic Hardy is there, and he knocks out the guard. Hardy remains behind, hoping to circumvent Grood's scheme for wold domination. Jack and Uncle Jim, joined by Billy, go to Pierce's mill. Grood's henchmen are there, placing the beam gun on a truck which also carries explosives. Jack gets on the truck...
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Jack Armstrong volume 2
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English
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The heroic trio escape when the door to the trapped room is blown open by the force of the explosion. Bt triangulating the cosmic rays, Jack determines the the experiments are taking place thousands of miles away. DEducing that Hardy will be taken there, Jack, Uncle Jim, billy and Betty take off in a jet-propelled airplane. When Hardy lands on Point X, he meets Professor Zorn (Wheeler Oakman) and is addressed by an unseen "ruler" who tells him that...
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Jack Armstrong volume 9
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English
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Jack and Uncle Jim who have been trailing the truck are set upon by Grood's henchmen. The timely arrival of Umala and friendly natives saves the situation' Billy is rescued. Grood now plans to eliminate Umala and his followers for their aid to Jack and the Fairfields. He attempts to arouse the natives through the voice of Xalta (his own method for controlling the island.) When Princess Alura doubts the authenticity of Xalta's, the natives are angered....
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Jack Armstrong volume 6
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English
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As the aeroglobe settles in its berth, Jack and the Fairfields flatten themselves against the walls of the pit and escape death. Princess Alura, believing that Xalta is on the side of Jack and his friends because of their miraculous escapes, urges them to leave the island. Jack insists on rescuing Vic Hardy first. Meanwhile, Pierce arrives with additional scientific equipment for the completion of the Cosmic Bean Annihilator (he's in with Grood)....
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Jack Armstrong volume 5
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English
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Jack and his friends land on a rocky ledge and make their way to the ground below. Meanwhile, Grood plans a fantastic demonstration to impress the natives.
An aeroglobe, able to go far beyond the earth's atmosphere, is sent aloft. From their hiding place, Jack, Betty, Uncle Jim, and Billy realize a great scientific experiment is in progress. They make their way into the Fire Pit, the berth of the aeroglobe. The spaceship descends into the pit with...
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Jack Armstrong volume 1
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English
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Heading an aviation company that develops atom-powered motors, Jim Fairfield (Pierre Watkin) learns from his chief scientists, Vic Hardy (Hugh Prosser), that cosmic radiations are being employed for experiments at a point outside Aherica. This information is told to Jim's nephew Billy Fairfield (Joe Brown Jr.) his niece Betty Fairfield (Rosemary LaPlanche), and to their best friend Jack Armstrong (John Hart). They decide to investigate further before...
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Jack Armstrong volume 11
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English
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The beam is deflected when Jack and Billy attack and overpower the henchmen operating the Annihilator. Pierce and his men, now opposed to Grood, wrest the gun away from Jack, but they cannot operate the Annihilator gun without solarium, an important element needed for its operation. Grood and his henchmen proceed to Pierce's mill headquarters. Jack, Billy and Uncle Jim have gone there to obtain ammunition. They are not discovered. Grood's henchmen...