"Baron (American Frontier) (Earth-616)" VS "Baron and Baroness Kidersky (Earth-616)"

The Baron was a wealthy mine owner who lived during the days of the American Frontier. With his massive wealth he constructed a castle over top of his mine, located behind an undisclosed western mountain. He formed an army led by a man named Whip Coburn to ride out on the range and capture able bodied workers and force them to work in his mine. Most of the workers succumbed to radiation poisoning from the Radium below the ground, requiring the Baron to send Whip and his men to get more people. The nearby town lived in fear of the Baron and were powerless to stop him. Until the day two brothers named Luke and Bill were kidnapped by Whip and his gang. The kidnapping was witnessed by the Two-Gun Kid who recovered a note written by the Baron that was left at the scene. Riding into the nearby town, Two-Gun began asking around about the Baron but found the locals too frightened to talk about him. Whip eventually heard about the Kid's snooping and tried to shoot him in the back, but succeeded only in grazing the heroes brow and knocking him out. The Kid was recovered by Luke and Bill's sister but the pair were also captured by Whip and brought to the Baron's castle. The Baron then ordered Two-Gun put in the Radium mine while the girl was left to his mercy.

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Baron and Baroness Kidersky were a famous ballerina couple that were popular during the 1940s. During the Russian Civil War they were loyal to the White Russians who eventually aligned themselves with Imperial Japan during World War II. The Kidersky's became world famous ballerinas, and also Nazi spies after they moved to the United States. By the winter of 1943, they were touring around American military bases learning the routes American convoys were taking across the Atlantic and other government secrets and then, through televised broadcasts, send this information by a means of interpretative dance. Each of their dance moves was in the shape of a letter that spelled out a code. A Nazi U-Boat remained in range to pick up the broadcast and record the secrets and transmit them back to Germany. When the Sub-Mariner was believed to be a Nazi sympathizer, he was sent to the Kidersky's for mission orders after being sprung out of a British prison within Castle Deptford. Namor met with the Kidersky's who assigned him to destroy American defense plants. Having no intention of doing so, he tracked the Kidersky couple across the United States, watching a performance at a military base and on live television, understanding that they were sending secret information out to the Nazis, but not understanding how. Meanwhile, the Human Torch and Toro having discovered the ruins of a television set on a blown up Nazi U-Boat deduced how when seeing a televised performance while sailing back to the United States.

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