What's this? Gene Autry burning to death in a crash airplane? Scientists planning on destroying Radio Ranch for their own purposes? A totalitarian queen who imprisons children, who are later subjected to deadly radium beams?
Why, it must be children's entertainment!
The 'fun' continues in Chapter 9 as Gene Autry predictably escapes through miraculous means from certain doom from Chapter 8 (and Chapter 7, 6, 5...ah, heck, nobody EVER dies in these things), and Frankie & Betsy get kidnapped by the kingdom of Murania, who decide the best method of dealing with small children is to hand them over to guards stupider than they are.