A man is trapped in a mine cave-in and undergoes a strange transformation that enables him to take the form of elements in the area. He seeks vengeance on the others in his mining crew who he thinks deserted him.
The Element Man takes the form of a glowing meteor man and looks for the three miners. Blackhawk lures it back to the site of the mine cave-in that caused its original transformation.
Stanislaus goes undercover as an acrobat in a circus, where he runs into Tiny Big, the Tom Thumb Blackhawk, who helps him solve a scheme to fence stolen merchandise.