Polite Dissent

Marge Bannerman has a problem. Her father runs a carnival freakshow but an unscrupulous competitor has lured all his freaks away, and her father is now on the verge of going bankrupt.

She goes to her friend Bob Benton for help because she knows that a pill can solve any problem¹.

Luckily Bob has just the thing for her — the latest wonder drug: Camiana. He gives her a bottle of the pills and she returns to the carnival^2.

She asks the single remaining freak to take the pill, and he agrees. A little while later, in the middle of his act, the pill kicks in and he lights up like a glowing skeleton³

Bob Benton: That drug is a wonderful aid! It lights up the human form, and may well prove as great a discovery as the x-ray!

This sight brings the customers in droves and soon the sideshow is making money hand over fist⁴. Once again, medicine saves the day.

Notes:
1. Kidding! Kidding! Sometimes it takes liquid medicine instead of pills.
2. It sure sounds like he’s prescribing medicine without a license
3. This certainly doesn’t look healthy to me; if anything, it looks suspiciously radioactive. The unfortunate guy doesn’t look to happy about it either. I have a feeling he’ll end up like one of the poor radium girls.
4. Of course, the comic’s not quite over as it is a “Black Terror” story, and not a “Bob Benton, pharmacist” story. Like any Black Terror story, this involves a tremendous number of fist fights and the Terror getting hit over the head and knocked out at least once (seriously, the Black Terror is worse than Black Canary).