Mister Miracle #13

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A freight train hurtles down the track, barreling towards the bound form of Mister Miracle. As Oberon, Big Barda, Ted Brown and two others look on, the train draws ever nearer, until it's mass obscures the prone figure of Mister Miracle. Once the train has passed, Mr. Miracle is revealed, free of his bonds, standing on the other side of the tracks. The new act is a success. Out of the sky, a bizarre helicopter approaches. Brown is drawn up into the helicopter by a powerful electromagnetic beam. However, before the strange primitives operating the helicopter can shut off the beam, Mister Miracle and Big Barda are drawn up to the craft, and magnetized to the hull. Big Barda smashes her way inside the helicopter, with Mister Miracle right behind her. A short fight breaks out between them and the uniformed primitives, with the heroes triumphant. The helicopter continues on it's way, following a preprogrammed flight path. As they approach a lamasery atop Mount Everest, the floor opens up, pitching Mister Miracle and Big Barda out of the helicopter. Mister Miracle activates the anti-gravity units in his boots, and rescues the still plummeting Big Barda. Brown, bound in ropes, is brought before the primitaves' master, King Komodo.Mister Miracle and Big Barda enter the lamasery through a large vent, and immediately come under gunfire from the primitives. Big Barda dispatches the lot of them with a hurled boulder. As the pair explore the lamasery, in search of Brown, Mister Miracle notes that the Asian decor of the lamasery seems heavy with Nazi symbology. They discover Brown in a holding cell. While focused on releasing Brown, Mister Miracle and Big Barda are ambushed and stunned into unconsciousness. They awake in Brown's cell. Brown reveals that King Komodo is really Albert Von Killowitz, Hitler's technical genius and a Nazi war criminal. Brown had encountered Killowitz, in Korea, after Brown's patrol had been ambushed and Brown left for dead. Rescued by Mongol warriors,...