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Black Dragons

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It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likenesses. Dr. Melcher is condemned to a lifetime of imprisonment so the secret may die with him. This work is in the  public domain  because it was published in the United States between 1926 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the  copyright was not renewed . For further explanation, see  Commons:Hirtle chart . Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the  rule of the shorter term  for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 years  p.m.a. ), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., no...