Tom versus Secret Society Supervillains number nine, or they should reconsider their vetting process.

Welcome back for the Secret Society Supervillains No. 9, the September 1977 issue featuring a cover by Rich Buckler and Jack Abel.

Our story for today's turnabout is Unfair Play.

Written by Jerry Conway, penciled by Rich Buckler, inked by Bob McLeod, everything else happened,

who knows how. Edited by Jack Harris. Thanks, guys. Sorry, work was a little crazy this week,

so we're backloaded this week. We're going to get a bunch

of episodes in the next couple days. But let's get right to our story for today. If you remember

from last time, the Secret Society is trying to collect these sorcerers items that Superman threw

into space and crashed down to Earth.

Someone's paying the secret society to try and collect all of them.

We don't know who.

We'll find out.

It's not Darkside, though.

Remember, Darkside died.

We begin in a furnished room in the rundown hit Ashbury section of San Francisco, where two of our heroes,

Captain Comet and Kid Flash, are watching TV, as heroes do.

I mean, Captain Comet is, you know, it's good that he's got his own place.

He was crashing up on the satellite, now he's rented a room in San Francisco.

They're watching some TV.

It's a very violent program.

Captain Comit is shocked by the violence on television.

Back in his day?

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