The miserly villain doctor scrooge hides behind legal technicalities as he steals from the pockets of the impoverished explorer-gone-mad jacques frost preys upon the peoples of the north with his resurrected prehistoric murder monsters the immortal baroness blackheart quests for the elixir of life, threatening to destroy all foundations of happiness for mankind meanwhile antiochus the defiler and his spectral seleucid squad attack anything sacred or holy.