Back in the New York airport, the Voodoo Master confronts the mystery man who appeared last issue to capture Howard Hughes; it is Lamont Cranston. The villain reveals that he has been secretly controlling Cranston’s mind for months, forcing the unwitting millionaire into aiding his scheme to destroy Richard Benson and the Shadow—and the collapse of the Hallibenson company will make the impoverished Cranston rich again.
At the bar in New York’s classy Explorers’ Club, Patricia Savage is contacted by the Shadow’s ally Margo Lane, summoning her to action….
Back at Doc’s Tibetan lab, the heroes discover that the shock Benson underwent has paralyzed the muscles in his face and drained his body of color. He is devastated and this surprise added to the loss of his wife and child sends him into a panic and the Shadow punches him in the face. Then it is learned that Benson’s face can be molded into any shape, making him the perfect master of disguise, as the Shadow considers all the possibilities, demonstrating by changing Benson into Doc Savage. Unnerved, the Man of Bronze reacts by cutting his hair into a widow’s peak. Benson proposes a team of heroes organized along the lines of a business: hence, Justice, Incorporated. Since Benson refuses to take a life in the quest to avenge his loved ones, Shadow trains him in the non-lethal use of gun and knife. While planning their next move, Shadow reveals that the airline passengers on the fatal flight were under some form of hypnosis, pointing at his enemy, the Voodoo Master. But Chow Lee’s final words were "devil Genghis" hinting at Doc Savage’s archenemy John Sunlight. At that moment a band of ninja warriors crashes through the windowed ceiling….