Posted on October 4, 2025October 4, 2025 by YarriThe Mind Controller (continued . . .) As the day wore on, panic reigned among the guards of the prison isle. I’ve just been down to feed the convict Roffa, sir, and he’s disappeared, too ! Another gone ? It’s an organised conspiracy ! Safe on their lofty perch, Janno, Roffa and Raspardi looked down. We’ve got those fools really worried. Quiet ! my voice has begun speaking to me. The voice that he could not disobey sounded in Janno’s inner ear. You, Janno, will descend from the tower after dark. You will destroy the island’s anti-aircraft capability. Here is how you will do it . . . At about that time, the great scientist Peric had sought an urgent audience with the Emperor. Your Majesty, we have found the scientific notebooks of the missing physician, Torga ! Torga is a master technician, who has devised a way of manufacturing a radio receiver so small that it can actually be injected into the blood stream. This done, the receiver will lodge itself in the cells of the inner ear. Peric continued . . . “Torga recounts how Janno and Roffa were subjected to faked road accidents and taken to hospital. On the way there, both were given blood transfusions by Torga and both transfusions contained miniaturised receivers !” “With the receivers in place, all Torga had to do was to bend his victims’ wills, day and night, by hypnosis, beamed directly to their brains by a secret radio wavelength !” Janno, when you wake up, you will do exactly as I shall order you. Do you understand ? I . . . under- stand . . . At the end of Peric’s account, Trigo put a question. Why did Torga go to all that trouble, in order to turn those two into criminals ? So that they would be sent to the Isle of Despair ! Where they have just freed the arch-criminal Raspardi ! That night, obedient to his inner voice, Janno made the perilous descent of the black tower. Unseen, he tampered with the fuse mechanism of the first projectile in the anti-aircraft battery . . . . . . When that was done, he returned to his eyrie. At dawn, a strange craft approached the prison isle. Craft entering forbidden zone now ! Prepare to fire ! Fire ! This installment was originally published in Look and Learn issue no. 716 on 4 October 1975.
