Blimp Black was the friend and sidekick to reporter Scoop Smith during the 1940s.
History
In the early 1940s, photographer Blimp Black and reporter Scoop Smith would be sent by their editor, Bruce Lane, to remote locations and dangerous situations, in order to bring back the most amazing scoops to appear in any paper. "Blimp" himself was usually nervous, always plump, and seldom stopped stuttering, so it was easy to underestimate his chances in a fistfight, but that would be a mistake.
Smith and Black were instrumental in apprehending the infamous radiology researcher James "Doctor Death" Kirk, who stole an expensive supply of radium from City Hospital, and used it to activate his "Life Machine." They were present when two of Kirk's henchmen were gassed to death, and when "Dr. Death" used his Life Machine to restore them to life.[1]
In 1940, while searching for a missing famous explorer, Smith and Black spent several months on an expedition to Antarctica. There they encountered some of the little-known Giant Antarctic Polar Bears, and a hidden kingdom of savage giant natives, ruled over by the famous explorer Wilson Drake.[2]
The reporter and photographer then searched, for about two months, for another missing explorer, in the Brazilian rain forest. They claim to have found the legendary Fountain of Youth, and to have met Cholo, the custodian of the miraculous fountain. They were present when the fountain dried up for no apparent reason.[3]
Scoop and Blimp then traveled to a remote corner of Mexico, to look for the Invisible Revolutionary Army. They found two hostile underground kingdoms, both heretofore unknown to the world: Scorpia and Subterrinia. Scorpia was ruled by King Cortes, and his extraterrestrial alien legions, and Subterrinia was ruled by a renegade General, and his Invisible Revolutionary Army. Scoop Smith alerted the Mexican government to the existence and whereabouts of these competing enemy armies, and troops were dispatched to repel both invader armies, which were wiped out.[4]
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