(Big Shot Comics 017, 1941)
Like a lot of Skyman's enemies Nels Lambert is a disaster causing guy. Specifically, he has a rig called an Electrical Wave Generator, with which he can create waves - presumably of all sizes but as he is a criminal scientist he's mostly focused on the largest and most destructive ones.
A note on naming: the Electrical Wave Generator is an okay name at best but he does refer to his base here as Nels Lambert's Floating Island and I personally choose to believe that that is it's official name because it's extremely whimsical..
Like our old friend the Ice Menace, Nels Lambert's plan is to weaponize the ocean and demand ransom from nations bordering the Atlantic in return for not being flooded. And he almost gets away with it, thanks to the fact that the Electrical Wave Generator is a multifunctional doomsday device: not only can it be used to create waves using electricity but that same electricity can be discharged into the atmosphere around Nels Lambert's Floating Island™ in order to for example very nearly electrocute Skyman and his pal Chubby as they fly in to investigate the source of this wave nuisance.
And speaking of Skyman's pal! Chubby Weeks is an old college friend of Allan "Skyman" Turner who ends up going along on this adventure through medium-level plot contrivance. The real interesting thing about Chubby is that he's a radio news reporter and that according the the callsign in the background of this picture he works at Station WBSC, which is the same station that Tony "the Face" Trent owns and/or works at. This is my first time reading any comics from the Columbia Comic Corporation so I have no idea if there's any further crossover action in the future but this evidence of a very mildly shared universe is very mildly exciting!
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