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Gray, Elmo. Elmo Gray was created by Robert F. Hill (Angus Blake) and appeared in the film serial The Flaming Disc (1920).

Elmo Gray is an American secret agent who is assigned to protect Professor Wade, a scientist who has created an “optical disk-lens” that focuses the sun’s rays so powerfully that the resulting beam can vaporize steel. Unfortunately, Stanton, the “king of the crooks,” hears about the weapon and steals it. He uses it to rob banks and even threatens to destroy New York City with it. Stanton is such a bounder that he has hypnotized Elmo’s brother Jim to do his bidding, and it takes seventeen chapters of adventure and derring-do for Elmo to finally corner Stanton in his lair, shake Jim out of his trance, and team up to recover the disk-lens and kill Stanton.

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