John "The Comet" Dickering sees his brother Bob being kidnapped by a couple of Big Boy Malone's men, and flies to his aid, but is shot and killed in the process. Bob swears revenge and becomes The Hangman, and when Chugger is found not guilty because John Dickering isn't alive to testify against him, The Hangman hustles Chugger out of the courtroom, and subjects him to his own methods to extract a confession......all leading to the execution of Big Boy Malone.; Using the sinister name Iola and dressing in a slinky dress, Madam Satan lures Carl Jensen away from his true love, Anita, and is soon completely in the toils of the creature of the netherworld, beginning a mad and expensive orgy of merrymaking. All too soon, he is goaded into a life of crime, being asked by "Iola" to shower her with expensive gifts, even if he had to steal them. After beating up his father and shooting Anita, Carl comes to her senses....then sees "Iola" as she really was: her face a grinning, green skull!; On his wedding day, Kayo's face is badly burned. Ashamed of his scarred face, he flees and becomes a hobo. While on a train he befriends a man who has tuberculosis. To get money to have him treated, Kayo fights a local fighter in a small town.