Wednesday Worlds of Wonder O.C.T. OCCULT CRIMES TASKFORCE Chapter 1 Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

NYPD officer Sophia Ortiz responds to what she believes is a simple distirbence call, and discovers...a multiple homicide!

Her call for backup results in an unfamilar plainclothes unit responding within seconds who commandeer the scene and dismiss her!

Her attempt to interact with the group results in immediate suspension from duty.

Then, within 12 hours, she's reinstated and transferred to a "special crimes taskforce", one of whose members, Detective Aaron Cain,  picks her up at her apartment the next morning to take her to her new station house
En-route, they encounter a hoodie-wearing figure who tosses a severed arm at their car!
Disregarding Cain's instructions to wait for backup, Ortiz races after the figure, trapping it in a nearby basement...

To Be Continued...

Next Wednesday

(Not "next month" as the preview art below says!)

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Reading Room: STRANGE WORLDS "Death on the Earth-Mars Run!"

"Murder on a cruise ship" is a classic mystery story trope...

...but transposing the plot from an ocean liner to a space liner emphasized the "trapped with a killer" aspect!

This tale of murder and mayhem on the high seas in deep space appeared in Avon's Strange Worlds #8 (1952) and was rendered by Everett Raymond Kinstler, who eventually left pulps and comics for fine art (including several official portraits of US Presidents).
Unlike most pulp/comic artists who moved into fine art, Kinstler is happy to discuss and display his early work.
You'll note a lot of swipes of Flash Gordon art by Alex Raymond.
This wasn't unusual, since Raymond (along with Milton Caniff, Hal Foster, and Noel Sickles) were seminal inspirations for the first generation of comic book artists.
Note, the writer of the tale is, sadly, unknown.
When the story was reprinted in the back of Skywald's The Heap #1 (1971), the Comics Code forced a couple of odd changes...

Page 3 Panel 1

Making Santley's adopted daughter his stepdaughter and eliminating the "he signed for me" quote!

Page 5 Panel 1

Adding a "Space Police" sig to the note, emphasizing the "official" aspect of the order.

Why did they do it?

I have no idea!
As a special treat, be here Thursday, when we re-present the re-illustrated version of this tale from a b/w horror magazine from 1972!

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Monday Madness THE BIG LIE

Before the phrase became indelibly-associated with Don da Con's paranoid delusiona about the 2020 elections......

...it defined the paranoid delusions of the pre-QAnon nuts who inhabited the internet in the early 2000s about the events of 9/11/2001!

You can read excerpts from the the unverified tale

HERE

and buy the comic itself

HERE

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While the writer is unknown, the art for this Flash Gordon-inspired tale from Ace's Space Action #1 (1952) breaks down as pencils by Lou Cameron, inks by Rocco Mastroserio!

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