What Is the Story of the Crime School Comic?
‘Crime School’ is an action-thriller comic, the entire story of which revolves around an illegal criminal academy called Crime School. The main operator of this academy is ‘Crime Master’, who controls people’s minds by giving them drugs and turning them into ruthless, dangerous killers and super-criminals.
The main protagonist of the story, ‘Blind Death’, is a warrior who cannot see with his eyes, but his ability to hear, smell, and feel vibrations through his bat-sense is extraordinary. The main story of this comic revolves around Blind Death rooting out Crime School, saving Professor Kailash Verma, and learning the truth about the lost identity of the mysterious masked man fighting alongside him.
The Complete Story and Main Events of Crime School
How Did ‘Chips’ Wreak Havoc During the Steel Factory Robbery?
The story begins on the day salaries are being distributed in a huge steel factory. Suddenly, a strange mutant villain named ‘Chips’ enters, with a body made of stones and crystal-like pieces. When the security guards point their guns at him, Chips blows the guards to pieces by showering them with sharp chips and stones from his body.
Just then, the superhero Blind Death arrives there. Blind Death detects every attack by Chips in the air with his sharp hearing. Meanwhile, a mysterious red-masked man, Masked Vigilante, kills the goons who came to help Chips outside the factory with his Sten gun.
Chips Revealed the Secret of Crime School Hidden in the Black Hills
Blind Death hangs Chips above a burning furnace of molten iron during an intense fight inside the factory. Seeing death in front of him, Chips breaks down and reveals that he is a student of “Crime School”, whose secret hideout is located in the ‘Black Hills’ outside the city.
Blind Death pulls him up as promised, but Chips tries to attack again. Chips falls directly into the boiling iron when Blind Death dodges the attack and burns to death.
Why Did Crime Master Kidnap Professor Kailash Verma?
Crime Master, sitting in his secret hideout in the Black Hills, is upset that his greatest enemy, Professor Kailash Verma, is still alive. He sends his trained students to the professor’s farmhouse. Despite being elderly, Professor Verma defeats the goons with the help of martial arts, but in the end, he is rendered unconscious and kidnapped.
Blind Death and Masked use a hot-air balloon to reach the Black Hills. To escape the enemy’s radar, they burst the balloon in the air and, using it like a parachute, land directly within the boundaries of Crime School.
Blind Death’s Battle with the Dangerous Killers of Crime School
Blind Death encounters three dangerous Lion-style ninja fighters. Blind Death’s hands automatically begin using ancient ninja techniques during the battle. He himself wonders how, when he has never learned this martial art, his body knows these techniques! He knocks out the ninja swordsmen with their own weapons.
On the other hand, the masked man is surrounded by the heavy-handed giant Hordi and Ships, who is armed with dangerous flying weapons. Blind Death grabs Ships’ flying weapon by following the sound it makes in the wind, hits him on the head, and finishes Hordi off by stabbing a sharp pole into his chest.
How Was Crime School Destroyed Amid the Landmines?
Professor Verma is being given electric shocks in Crime Master’s main control room. Landmines that explode as soon as pressure is applied are spread across the entire floor. Blind Death and Masked perform a fantastic acrobatic move—Masked tosses Blind Death towards the wall, and Blind Death spins through the air before landing directly on Crime Master and knocking him down with a single punch.
Crime Master’s control board breaks as he falls, triggering 100 time bombs throughout the building. Amid the fire and explosions all around, Blind Death discovers a secret button hidden in the wall with the help of his ‘bat-sense’. The three reach the roof, grab the rope hanging from Crime Master’s emergency helicopter, and rise into the air, while the entire Crime School below is destroyed by the blasts.
Crying in the helicopter, the masked man asks Professor Verma, “Now tell me, who am I?” The professor promises that, upon reaching the farmhouse, he will tell him about his true past. The story leaves the reader with a big mystery and makes them wait for the next comic, ‘One Man Army’.
The Main Characters of Crime School and Their Hidden Secrets
- Blind Death: His character is based on the concept of an old ‘blind warrior’. Despite not being able to see with his eyes, his other senses are very sharp. His use of martial arts techniques without having learned them and the old memories stored in his body through muscle memory point to him having undergone a secret military or scientific experiment in his past.
- Masked: He is the emotional centre of the comic. This fighter, armed with modern weapons, has forgotten his identity and is desperate to know the truth about his existence.
- Crime Master: He is a traditional comic-book supervillain who overpowers young people through drugs and mind control and creates a new army of criminals who spread terror across the world.
Crime School’s Level of Art, Story, and Action
• Artwork by Dilip Choubey: Dilip Choubey’s artwork showcases the raw and gritty comic-book style of the ’80s and ’90s. The reddish-yellow colour of the molten iron in the steel factory, the graphic depiction of broken bones, and the splashes of blood in the action scenes perfectly capture the grim and dangerous atmosphere of the story.
• Story pace (Pacing): Nazra Khan’s story does not slow down even for a moment. Its 30 pages combine a robbery, an investigation, an aerial entry into an enemy hideout, four different action scenes, and a large-scale climactic threat very quickly and intelligently.
Interesting Facts Related to the Crime School Comic
- An Indian Combination of Daredevil and Batman: Blind Death’s ‘bat-sense’ and his inability to see with his eyes clearly make him an interesting Indian combination of Marvel’s Daredevil, with his radar sense, and Batman’s theme.
- A Big Secret Connected to the Past: This comic is not just the story of a separate mission, but the beginning of a long ‘origin story arc’ in which the hero and his partner are searching for their true identities.
- King Comics Price: This 32-page, full-colour action comic, available for just ₹7.00, was nothing short of a blockbuster experience for low-budget readers at the time.
Is the Crime School Comic Still Worth Reading Today?
Category/Rating
Story and Mystery (Plot & Suspense): ★★★★☆
(4.2/5)
Action Design: ★★★★★
(4.8/5)
Artwork and Inking: ★★★★☆
(4.0/5)
Nostalgia and Vintage Significance: ★★★★★
(5.0/5)
Overall Rating: 4.5/5
Complete Information and Credits of the Comic
• Comic name: Crime School
• Series/Hero: Blind Death (Blind Death Series)
• Publication: King Comics
• Issue number: 9
• Price at that time: ₹7.00
• Editing: Vivek Mohan
• Plot/Story: Nazra Khan
• Artwork: Dilip Choubey
• Main characters:
o Blind Death (Visually Impaired Superhero with Extraordinary Senses and Bat-Sense)
o Masked (Mysterious Armed Fighter)
o Professor Kailash Verma (Scientist with Knowledge of Many Mysteries)
o Crime Master (Operator of the Criminal Academy ‘Crime School’)
o Chips (Dangerous Mutant Villain with a Stone- and Crystal-like Body)
o Hordi, Ships, and Ninja Fighters (Crime School-Trained Killers)
