(Thrilling Comics 005, 1940)
Things are bad in New York City: the city is corrupt seemingly from top to bottom, civic leader Henry Adams has had enough of it, and his zeal is infectious: Doc Strange sets out to clean up the municipal landscape and beats up a wide variety of crooked politicians and businessmen, including:
- District Attorney Big Bill Roberts
- Lawyer Ollie Saunders
- Contractor Alfred Quinn
- Brewer Von Strohm
- a bunch of unnamed gangsters and arsonists
Almost all of them (save Roberts and the odd gangster) end up dead, which leaves Doc Savage to find the head honcho, the Bog Boss, and put an end to the source of the corruption.
The Big Boss makes a valiant attempt to turn Strange's planned ambush against him, but even a very large knife is never going to be enough for that, and he is swiftly subdued and unmasked as - wouldn't you know it - civic leader Henry Adams, who's tough-on-crime act was a mere facade calculated to throw suspicion off of himself.
