When the station's top announcer is murdered, Alan Scott applies for a job at APEX Broadcasting to investigate, but the assistant manager, Mr. Gates, tells him there are no openings. Working with Irene Miller, who coincidentally works at APEX, Scott discovers that Mr. Gates was using the announcer's program to send coded messages to his henchmen in his smuggling operations. After getting a confession out of Gates as Green Lantern, Alan frees Irene and receives a job offer from the president of APEX Broadcasting.; When Mary decides to wear the "Kador Necklace," worth $25,000, to the Calvin College "Diamond Ball," Al decides to attend, and soon has his hands full of action as The Atom when crooks appear to steal it.; When Ma learns of the kidnapping of Dinky and Sisty by the Torponi mob, a chance remark by Scribbly about the Green Lantern puts the idea into Ma's head of adopting the persona of a costumed heroine herself to save them.