(Daredevil Comics 005, 1941)
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Everything gonna be all right - the Claw hasn't been seen for 10 days after he was set on fire and disappeared into the Hudson River.
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Psych, he's back after maybe a month or two total, getting his huge fingerprints all over the skyscrapers and gassing on about taking over the US. And who will stop him this time, with the Daredevil out of the Claw-fighting game, Bill Hopkins understandably keeping a low profile and Jerry Morris a distant memory?
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A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS!
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The Ghost's self-appointed crusade against the Claw gets off to a great start, as he whales on him across the Manhattan skyline for seven solid hours and then forces his retreat with a crate of TNT. Given the punishment that we have seen the Claw take in the past I must ask: is any of this actually harming him, or does it just hurt? It's not like he is ever visibly harmed, after all. In any case, the day is saved!
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Daredevil Comics 006: The Claw hatches a plan to demoralize the US that involves kidnapping 13 women and which is never actually explained.
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The reason that it is never explained is because the Ghost shows up just before the Claw can finish his expository sentence and proceeds to bounce rocks off of his head until he passes out. Presumably this also takes several hours. The Ghost rescues the ladies and the Claw wakes up with an enormous headache. Here's hoping that he expands his villain portfolio in 1942, because there are only so many interesting variations on "the Claw attempts to conquer the US and gets his ass beaten for it."
Miss X:
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Miss X is a spy sent by Adolf Hitler to organize the fifth column in the US during that ten day gap in which everyone was hoping that he might be dead, only to find him alive and just as huge as ever.
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The Claw somehow gets wind of Miss X's presence in NYC and arranges a meeting with her to discuss a Claw/Nazi alliance to conquer North America. Hitler agrees despite his one unsuccessful and one disastrous prior alliance with the Claw. As a result, super spy Miss X spends the majority of her two 1941 appearances en route between German and NYC. (Daredevil Comics 005, 1941)
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