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 Created by ALAN MOORE writer &

“AT MIDNIGHT, OAVE GIBBONS illustrator & lefterer

ALL THE AGENTS...” JOHN HIGGINS

LEN WEIN
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2 HOLLIS MASON

Vernons Auto Repair c. 1928. {left to right) My father; myself, age 21; Moe Vernon; FredMotz.

I'd my dad and Moe would be sitting there in his office, which had
go into the shop with
glass sides so he could watch the men working. Sometimes, if my father wanted to check
something out with Moe before going ahead with his work, he’d send me over to the office to do
it for him, which meant that I got to see the insides of
Moe’s inner sanctum. Or rather, I got to
hear them.
You see, Moe was an opera buff. He had one of the new gramophones over in the corner
of his office and allday he used to play scratchy old seventy-eight recordings of his favorites just
as loud as he could manage. By today’s standard, “as loud as he could manage'* didn't amount
to a whole lot of noise, but it sounded pretty cacophonous back in 1930, when things were
generally quieter.
The other thing that was peculiar about Moe was his sense of humor, as represented by all
the stuff he used to keep in the top right side drawer of his desk.
In that drawer, amongst a mess of rubber bands and paper clips and receipts and stuff,
Moe had one of the largest collections of tasteless novelty items that 1 had seen up until that
point or have seen at any time since. They were all risque little toys and gadgets that Moe had
picked up from gag shops or on visits to Coney Island, but it was the sheer range of them that
was overwhelming: every cheap blue gimmick that you can remember your dad bringing
home when he'd been out drinking with the boys and embarrassing your mom with; every
ballpoint pen with a girl on the side whose swimsuit vanished when you turned it upside down;
every salt and pepper crewet set shaped like a woman's breasts; every plastic dog mess. Moe
had the works. Every time anybody went into his office he'd try to startle them by displaying
his latest plaything. Actually, it used to shock my dad more than it did me. I don’t think he liked
the idea of his son being exposed to that kind of stuff, probably because of all the moral
warnings my grandfather had impressed upon him. For my part, I wasn't offended and I even
UNDER THE HOOD 3

found it kind of funny. Not the things themselves. ..even by then I was too old to get much
amusement out of stufflike that What I found funny was that
. for no apparent reason, a grown
man should have a desk drawer full of such ludicrous devices.
Anyway, one day in 1933, a little after my seventeenth birthday, I was over at Vernon's
Auto Repairs with Dad, helping him poke around in the oily innards of a busted-up Ford,
Moe was in his office, and although we didn’t find out till later, he was sitting wearing an
artificial foam rubber set of realistically painted lady's bosoms, with which he hoped to get a

few laughs from the guy who brought him the morning mail through from the front office
when it arrived. While he waited, he was listening to Wagner.
The mail arrived in due course, and the guy handing it over managed to raise a dutiful
chuckle at Moe's generous cleavage before leaving him to open and peruse the morning's
missives. Amongst these (again, as we found out later) there was a letter from Moe’s wife
Beatrice, informing him that for the past two years she’d been sleeping with Fred Motz, the
senior and most trusted mechanic employed at Vernon's Auto Repairs, who, unusually, hadn't
shown up for work on that particular morning. This, according to the concluding paragraphs
of the letter, was because Beatrice had taken all the money out of the joint account she shared
with her husband and had departed with Fred for Tijuana.
The first anyone in the workshop knew about this was when the door of Moe’s office
slammed open and the startlingly loud and crackling rendition of “Ride of the Valkyries"
blasted out from within. Framed in the doorway with tears in his eyes and the crumpled letter
in his hand, Moe stood dramatically with all eyes turned towards him He was still wearing the
.

set of artificial breasts. Almost inaudible above the rising strains of Wagner swelling behind

him, he spoke, with so much hurt and outrage and offended dignity fighting for possession of
his voice that the end result was almost toneless.
"
“Fred Motz has had carnal knowledge of my wife Beatrice for the past two years
He stood there in the wake of his announcement, the tears rolling down over his multiple
chins to soak into the pink foam rubber of his bosom, making tiny sounds in his chest and
throat that were trampled under the hooves of the Valkyries and lost forever.
And everybody started laughing.
I don’t know what it was. We could see

he was crying, but it was just something in the

toneless way he’d said it, standing there wear-
ing a pair of false breasts with all that crash-
ing, triumphant music soaring all around
him. None of us could help it, laughing at

him like that. My dad and I were both dou-

bled up and the other guys slaving over the
nearby cars were wiping tears from their eyes
and smearing their faces with oil in the proc-
ess. Moe just looked at us all for a minute and
then went back into his office and closed the
door. A moment or two later the Wagner
stopped with an ugly scraping noise as Moe
snatched the needle from the groove of the
gramophone record and after that there was
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silence.
About hour passed before some-
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body and to see if Moe was all right. Moe
accepted the apology and said that he was
fine. Apparently he was sitting there at his

desk, breasts now discarded, getting on with

4 HOLLIS MASON

normal routine paperwork as if nothing had happened.

That night, he sent everybody home early. Then, running a tube from the exhaust of one
of the shop's more operational vehicles in through the car’s window, he started up the engine
and drifted off into a final, bitter sleep amongst the carbon monoxide fumes. His brother took
over the business and even eventually reemployed Fred Motz as chief mechanic.
And that's why “The Ride of the Valkyries” is the saddest thing I can think of, even though
it’s somebody eise's tragedy rather than my own, I was there and I laughed along with all the

rest and 1 guess that makes it part of my story too.

Now, if Denise's theory is correct, should have your full sympathy and the rest will be a
I

walk. So maybe it’s safe to tell you about all the stulT you probably bought this book to read
about. Maybe it's safe to tell you why I’m crazier than Moe Vernon ever was. I didn’t have a
drawer full of erotic novelties, but I guess I had my own individual quirks. And although I’ve
never worn a set of false bosoms in my life. I’ve stood there dressed in something just as
strange, with tears in my eyes while people died laughing.

II.
By 1939 was twenty-three years old and had taken a job on the New York City police
I

force. I've never really examined until now just why I should have chosen that particular
career, but guess it came as a result of a number of things. Foremost amongst these was
I

probably my grandfather,
Even though 1 resented the old man for the amount of guilt and pressure and recrimina-
tion he'd subjectedmy dad to, suppose that the simple fact of spending the first twelve years of
I

my life my grandfather’s proximity had indelibly stamped a certain set of moral

living in
values and conditions upon me. 1 was never so extreme in my beliefs concerning God, the
family, and the flag as my father’s father was, but if I look at myself today can see basic I

notions of decency that were passed down

me. His name was Hollis
direct from him to
Wordsworth Mason, and perhaps because my man by naming
parents had flattered the old
me after him, he always took a special concern over my upbringing and moral instruction.
One of the things that he took great pains to impress upon me was that country folk were
morally healthier than city folk and that cities were just cesspools into which all the world’s
dishonesty and greed and lust and godlessness drained and was left to fester unhindered.
Obviously, as I got older and came to realize just how much drunkenness and domestic vio-
lence and child abuse was hidden behind the neighborly facade of some of these lonely Mon-
tana farmhouses, understood that my grandfather’s appraisal had been a little one-sided.
I

Nevertheless, some of the things that I saw in the city during my first few years here filled me
with a sort of ethical revulsion that I couldn't shake off. To some degree, 1 still can’t.
The pimps, the pornographers, the protection artists. set dogs onThe landlords who
their elderly tenants when them out to make way for more lucrative custom. The
they wanted
old men who touched little children and the callous young rapists who were barely old enough
to shave. I saw these people all around me and I’d feel sick in my gut at the world and what it
was becoming. Worse, there were times when I’d upset my dad and mom by loudly wishing I
was back in Montana. Despite everything, I wished no such thing, but sometimes I’d be mad
at them and seemed like the best way to hurt them, to reawaken all those old doubts and
it

worries and sleeping dogs of guilt. I’m sorry did it now, and I wish 1 could have told them that
1

while they were alive. I wish I could have told them that they were right in bringing me to the
city, that they did the right thing by me. wish could have let them know that. Their lives
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would have been so much easier.

UNDER THE HOOD 5

When the gap between the

world of the city and the world
my grandfather had presented to
me as right and good became too
wide and depressing to tolerate,
I'd turn to my other great love,
which was pulp adventure fic-

tion. Despite the fact that Hollis

Mason Senior would have had
nothing but scorn and loathing
for all of those violent and garish
magazines, there was a sort of
prevailing morality in them that
I’m sure he would have
responded to, The world of Doc
Savage and The Shadow was one
of absolute values, where what
was good was never in the slight-
est doubt and where what was
Masked adventurers make thefront page. (New York Gazette,
evil inevitably suffered some fit-
October lith, 1938) Note artist's impression of
n ting punishment, The notion of
' The Hooded Vigilante

good and justice espoused by

Lamont Cranston with his slouch hat and blazing automatics seemed a long way from that of
the fierce and taciturn old man I remembered sitting up alone into the Montana night with no
company save his bible, but I can’t help feeling that if the two had ever met they'd have found
something to talk about. For my pan, all those brilliant and resourceful sleuths and heroes
offered a glimpse of a perfect world where morality worked the way it was meant to. Nobody in
Doc Savage's world ever killed themselves except thwarted kamikaze assassins or enemy spies
with cyanide capsules. Which world would you rather live in, if you had the choice?
Answering that question, I suppose, was what led me to become a cop, It was also what
led me to later become something more than a cop. Bear that in mind and I think the rest of
this narrative will be easier to swallow. 1 know people always have trouble understanding just
what brings a person to behave the way that I and people like me behave, what makes us do the
son of things we do. I can’t answer for anybody else, and I suspect that all our answers would
be different anyway, but in my case it’s fairly straightforward: I like the idea of adventure, and I
feel bad unless I'm doing good. I’ve heard all the psychologists’ theories, and I’ve heard all the

jokes and the rumors and the innuendo, but what it comes down to for me is that I dressed up
like an owl and fought crime because it was fun and because it needed doing and because I
goddam felt like it.

Okay. There it is. I've said it. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. Perhaps you
begin to see why I half expect this summary of my career to raise more laughs than poor

cuckolded Moe Vernon with his foam teats and his Wagner could ever hope to have done.
For me, it all started in 1938, the year when they invented the super-hero. I was too old
for comic books when the first issue of ACTION COMICS came out, or at least too old to read
them in public without souring my promotion chances, but I noticed a lot of the little kids on
my beat reading it and couldn't resist asking one of them if I could glance through it. I figured
if anybody saw me I could put it all down to keeping a good relationship with the youth of the
community.
There was a lot of stuff in that first issue. There were detective yarns and stories about
magicians whose names I can't remember, but from the moment I set eyes on it I only had eyes
for the Superman story, Here was something that presented the basic morality of the pulps
without all their darkness and ambiguity. The atmosphere of the horrific and faintly sinister
6 HOLLIS MASON

that hung around the Shadow was nowhere to be seen in the bright primary colors of Super-
man’s world, and there was no him of the repressed sex-urge which had sometimes been
apparent in the pulps, to my discomfort and embarrassment. I’d never been entirely sure what
Lamont Cranston was up to with Margo Lane, but I’d bet it was nowhere near as innocent and
wholesome as Clark Kent’s relationship with her namesake Lois. Of course, all of these old
characters are gone and forgotten now, but I’m willing to bet that there are at least a few older
readers out there who will remember enough to know what I’m talking about. Anyway, suffice
it to say that I read that story through about eight times before giving it back to the complain-
ing kid that I'd snitched it from.
It set deep inside me, and kicked all those old'
off a lot of things I'd forgotten about,
fantasies that I’dhad when I was thirteen or fourteen back into gear: The prettiest girl in the
class would be attacked by bullies, and I’d be there to beat them ofF, but when she offered to
kiss me as a reward, I’d refuse. Gangsters would kidnap my math teacher, Miss Albertine, and
I’d track them down and kill them one by one until she was free, and then she’d break off her

engagement with my sarcastic English teacher, Mr. Richardson, because she’d fallen hope-
lessly in love with her grim- faced and silent fourteen-year-old savior. All of this stuff came

flooding back as I stood there gawking at the hijacked comic book and even though I laughed
.

at myself for having entertained such transparent juvenile fantasies, I didn’t laugh as hard as I
might have done. Not half as hard as I’d laughed kt Moe Vernon, for example.
Anyway, although I’d occasionally manage to trick some unsuspecting tyke into lending
me his most recent issue of the funnybook in question and then spend the rest of the day
leaping tall buildings inside my head, my fantasies were to remain as fantasies until I opened a
newspaper in the autumn of that same year and found that the super-heroes had escaped from
their four-color world and invaded the plain, factual black and white of the headlines.
The first news story was simple and unpresupposing enough, but it shared enough ele-
ments with those fictions that were closest to my heart to make me notice it and file it in my
memory for future reference. It concerned an attempted assault and robbery that had taken
place in Queens, New York. A man and his girlfriend, walking home after a night at the
theater, had been set upon by a gang of three men armed with guns. After relieving the couple
of their valuables, the gang has started to beat and physically abuse the young man while
threatening to indecently assault his girlfriend. At this point, the crime had been interrupted
by a figure “Who dropped into the alleyway from above with something over his face" and
proceeded to disarm the three attackers before beating them with such severity that all three
required hospital treatment and that one subsequently lost the use of both legs as a result of a
spinal injury. The witnesses’ recounting of the event was confused and contradictory, but there
was still something in the story that gave me a tingle of recognition. And then, a week later, it
happened again.
Reportage on this second instance was more detailed. A supermarket stick-up had been
prevented thanks to the intervention of “A tall man, built like a wrestler, who wore a black
hood and cape and also wore a noose around his neck" This extraordinary being had crashed
in through the window of the supermarket while the robbery was in progress and attacked the
man responsible with such intensity and savagery that those not disabled immediately were
only too willing to drop their guns and surrender. Connecting this incidence of masked inter-
vention with its predecessor, the papers ran the story under a headline that read simply
“Hooded Justice." The first masked adventurer outside comic books had been given his name.
Reading and rereading that news item, 1 knew that I had to be the second. I’d found my
vocation.
ALAN MOORE
writer

DAVE GIBBONS
illustrotor/letferer

JOHN HIGGINS
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Erom the moment that I decided somewhere dc^-ihtnde my sell that I wanted to try rny
hand at being a costumed adventurer, to the moment 1 first stepped out into the night with a
mask on my I are and the wind on my bare legs, took about three months. Three months of
self* doubt and self-ridicule. Three months of sell-conscious training down at the Police Gym-
nasium. Three months figuring out how the hell 1 was going to make myself a costume.
The costume was difficult, because couldn’t start designing it until I'd thought of a
I

name 1 his stumped me for a couple ol weeks, because every name 1 came up with sounded
stupid, and what really wanted was something with the same sense of drama and excitement
I

as “Hooded Justice"
Eventually, a suitable handle was provided inadvertently by one of the other cops that 1
worked with down at the station house. He’d invited ine out fora beer after work two or three
rimes only to be turned down because wanted to spend as much of my evenings working out
I

in the Police Gymnasiums as possible, after which I’d usually go to bed around nine o'clock
and sleep through until five the next morning, when I'd get up and put in a couple of hours
workout before donning my badge and uniform in readiness for my day job, After having his
offer of beer and relaxat ion turned down yet again by reason of me wanting to be in bed early,
he finally gave up asking and touk to calling me “Nile Owl" out of sarcasm until he finally
found somebody else to drink with.
liked it. Now all
‘‘Nile Owl,’ had to come up with was the costume.
1 1

A
masked adventurer’s costume is one ol those things that nobody really thinks about.
Should have a cape, or nocape:* .Should it be thick and armored to protect you from harm, or
it

flexible and lightweight to allow maneuverability? What sort of mask should it have? Do bright
colors make you more ol a target than dark ones? All of these were things that 1 had to consider,
Eventually, opted lor a design that left the arms and legs as free as possible, while
1

protecting my body and head with a tough leather tunic, light chainmail briefs, and a layer of
Jtat he r-over-ch a run ail protecting i my head. I experimented with a cloak, remembering how
the Shadow would use his cloak to misguide enemy bullets, leading them to shoot at parts of
the swirling black mass where his body didn’t happen 10 be. In practice, however, found it too 1

unwieldy. was always tripping over it or getting it caught in things, and so 1 abandoned it for
1

an outfit that was as streamlined as could make it: 1

With the mail and leather headpiece hiding my hair, found I only really needed a small 1

domino mask to conceal my identity, but even this presented problems that weren't obvious at
first glance. My first mask was attached to my face by the simple expediency of a string, but
thisnearly got me killed fluring rny first ever outing in lull costume, when a drunk with a knife
hooked his fingers into the eyeholes ol the domino and pulled it down .so that I could only see
out ol one eye. II Id been less fit and alert or he’d been less drunk rny career might well have
ended then As it was 1 was able to tear off the mask completely and then disarm him, trusting
that the alcohol would fog any clear recollection of my fat e. After that, dispensed with the I

siring ami stuck the mask to my lace using spirit gum, such as actors use to attach false beards
Or mustaches.
I became Nile Owl during the early months of 1939, and although my first few
first

exploits were largely unspectacular, they aroused a lot of media interest simply because by
1939, dressing up in a costume and protecting your neighborhood had become something of a
fad, with the whole ol America at least briefly interested in its development. A month after I
made tny debut a young woman who called herself The Silhouette broke into the headlines by
.

exposing the activities of a crooked publisher trafficking in child pornography, delivering a

punitive beating to the entrepreneur and his two chief cameramen in (hr process. A little after
that, the first reports of a man dressed like a moth who could glide through the air started to
come in from Connecticut, and a particularly vicious and brutal young man in a gaudy yellow
 .

boiler suit started cleaning up the city’s waterfronts under the name of The Comedian. Within
twelve months of Hooded Just ice’s dramatic entrance into the public consciousness, there were
at least seven other costumed vigilantes operating on or around America’s West Coast.
There was Captain Metropolis, who brought a knowledge of military technique and
strategy to his attempt at eradicating organized crime in the inner urban areas, and who is still
active to this day.
There was The Silk Spectre, now retired and living with her daughter after an unsuccess-
ful early marriage, who in retrospect was probably the first of us ever to realize that there could

be commercial benefits in being a masked adventurer. The Silk Spectre used her reputation as
a crimefighter primarily to make the front pages and receive exposure for her lucrative model-
ing career, but I think all of us who knew her loved her a little bit and we certainly didn’t
begrudge her a living, I think we were all too unsure of our own motives to cast aspersions
upon anybody else,
There was Dollar Bill, originally a star college athlete from Kansas who was actually
employed as an in-house super-hero by one of the major national banks, when they realized
that the masked man fad made being able to brag about having a hero of your own to protect
your customer’s money a very interesting publicity prospect. Dollar Bill was one of the nicest
and most straightforward men I have ever met, and the fact that he died so tragically young is
something that still upsets me whenever I think about it. While attempting to stop a raid upon
one of his employer’s banks, his cloak became entangled in the bank’s revolving door and he
was shot dead at point-blank range before he could free it. Designers employed by the bank
had designed his costume for maximum publicity appeal. If he’d designed it himself he might
have left out that damned stupid cloak and still be alive today.
There was Mothman and The Silhouette and The Comedian and there was me, all of us
choosing to dress up in gaudy opera costumes and express the notion of good and evil in
simple, childish terms, while over in Europe they were turning human beings into soap and
lampshades. We were sometimes respected, sometimes analyzed, and most often laughed at,
and in spite of all the musings above, I don’t think that those of us still surviving today are any
closer to understanding just why we really did it all. Some of us did it because we were hired to
and some of us did it to gain publicity. Some of us did it out of a sense of childish excitement
and some of us, 1 think, did it for a kind of excitement that was altogether more adult if perhaps
less healthy. They’ve called us fascists and they’ve called us perverts and while there’s an element

of truth in both those accusations, neither of them are big enough to take in the whole picture.
Yes, some of us were politically extreme. Before Pearl Harbor, I heard Hooded Justice
openly expressing approval for the activities of Hitler’s Third Reich, and Captain Metropolis
has gone on record as making statements about black and Hispanic Americans that have been
viewed as both racially prejudiced and inflammatory, charges that it is difficult to argue or
deny.
daresay some of us did have our sexual hang-ups. Everybody knows what eventu-
I

ally became of the Silhouette and although it would be tasteless to rehash the events surround-
ing her death in this current volume, it provides proof for those who need it that for some
people, dressingup in a costume did have its more libidinous dements.
some of us were unstable and neurotic. Only a week ago as of this writing, I received
\fes,

word that the man behind the mask and wings of Mothman, whose true identity I am not at
liberty to divulge, has been committed to a mental institution after a long bout of alcoholism
and a complete mental breakdown
Yes, we were crazy, we were kinky, we were Nazis, all those things that people say. We
were also doing something because we believed in it. We were attempting, through our per-
sonal efforts, to make our country a safer and better place to live in. Individually, working on
our separate patches of turf, we did too much good in our respective communities to be written
off aw a mere aberration, whether social or sexual or psychological.
It was only when we got together that the problems really started. I sometimes think
without the Minutemen we might all have given up and called it quits pretty soon. The cos*
turned adventurer might have become quietly and simply extinct.
And the world might not be in the mess that it’s in today.

IV.
There’s no mystery behind how the Minutemen first got together. Captain Metropolis
had written to Sally Jupiter care of her agent, suggesting that they might meet with a view to
forming a group of masked adventurers who could pool their resources and experience to
combat crime. The Captain has always had a strategic approach to crimefighting, so I can see
why the idea would appeal to him, although back then I was surprised that he’d made an effort
to get in touch with Sally. He was so polite and reserved that Sally's drinking, swearing and
mode of dress were guaranteed to shock him speechless. Later, I realized that Sally was simply
the only costumed vigilante forethoughtful enough to have an agent whose address was in the
phone book.
Sally’s agent (and, much later, her husband) was an extremely shrewd individual named
Laurence Schexnayder. He realized that without the occasional gimmick to revitalize flagging
public interest, the fad for long underwear heroes would eventually fade, reducing his girl
Sally’s chances of media exposure as The Silk Spectre to zero. Thus it was Schexnayder, in
mid- 1939, who suggested placing a large ad in the Gazette asking other mystery men to come
forward.
One by one we came, over the next few weeks. We were introduced to Sally, to Captain
Metropolis, to each other and Laurence Schexnayder. He was very organized and profes-
to
sional, and although only in his mid-thirties he seemed very mature and respectable to us back
then Maybe that was just because he’d be the only person in the room not wearing their boxer
.

shorts over their pants. By the fall of '39 he’d arranged all the publicity and the Minutemen
were finally bom.
The mystery is how the hell we managed to stay together.
real

Dressing up in a costume takes a very extreme personality, and the chances of eight such
personalities getting along together were about seventy -eleven million to one against. This
isn’t some of us didn’t get along, of course.
to say that Sally attached herself pretty swiftly to
Hooded Justice, who was one of the
biggest men I’ve ever seen, I never
found out name, but I’d be will-
his real
ing to bet that those early news reports
weren’t far off in comparing him to a
wrestler. Strangely enough, even
though Sally would always be hanging
onto his arm, he never seemed very
interested in her. I don’t think I ever saw
him kiss her, although maybe that was
just because of his mask. Anyway, they
started going out together, sort of, after
the first Minutemen Christmas Party
in 1939, which is the last time I can
Thefirst Minutemen Christmas party, 1939
remember us all having a real good (from left to right; The Silhouette, Silk Spectre,
time together. After that, things went Comedian Hooded Justice, Captain Metropolis
,

bad. We had worms in the apple, eat-

(in mirror), Nile Owl, Mothman, Dollar Bill)
ing it from inside.
 The worst of these was the Comedian,
I'm aware that he's still active today and even
respected in some quarters, but I know what I
know, and that man is a disgrace to our pro-
fession. In 1940 he attempted to sexually
assault Sally Jupiter in the Minutemen tro-
phy room after a meeting. He left the group
shortly thereafter by mutual consent and with
a minimum of publicity. Schexnayder had
persuaded Sally not to press charges against
the Comedian for the good of the group's
image, and she complied. The Comedian
went his way unscathed even though he was
. . .

badly wounded in an unconnected stabbing

incident about a year later. This is what made
him decide to change his flimsy yellow cos-
tume for the leather armor he wears at Newsreel footage of the Comedian in the
present. He went on to make a name for him- South Pacific 1942
self as a war hero in the Pacific, but all 1 can
think of is the bruises along Sally Jupiter’s ribcage and hope to God that America can find itself
a better class of hero than that.

After that, things deteriorated. In 1946, the papers revealed that the Silhouette was living
with another woman in a lesbian relationship, Schexnayder persuaded us to expel her from the
group, and six weeks later she was murdered, along with her lover, by one of her former
enemies. Dollar Bill was shot dead, and in 1947 the group was dealt its most serious blow when
Sally quit crimefighting to marry her agent. We
always thought she might come back, but in
1949 she had a daughter, so that clinched that.
Eventually, those of us who were left didn’t even
fight crime anymore. It wasn’t interesting. The
villains we’d fought with were cither in prison or
had moved on to less glamorous activities.
Moloch, for example, who had started out aged
seventeen as a stage magician, evolving into an
ingenious and flamboyant criminal mastermind
through underworld contacts made in his world
of nightclubs, had moved into impersonal crime
like drugs, financial fraud and vice clubs by the
late ’40’s. Eventually, there was just me,
Mothman, Hooded Justice and Captain
Metropolis sitting around in a meeting hall that
smelled like a locker room now that there
weren’t any women in the group. There was
nobody interesting left to fight, nothing notable
to talk about. In 1949, we By
called it a day.
then, however, we’d been around long enough to
somehow inspireyounger people, God help
them, to follow in our footsteps.
The Minutemen were finished, but it
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The Minutemen didn’t get to usher in

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the 1950s with a Christmas celebration the
way we’d ushered in the ’40s, and perhaps
that’s appropriate. The decade
disbanding of the group was cold and bleak,
both for me in particular and for masked
following the
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adventurers in general. Plus, it seemed to go
on forever.
1 think the worst thing was the belated
realization of just how much a fad we’d always
been, something to dead columns of
fill the
the newspapers right alongside the Hula
Hoop and the Jitterbug. Ever since Sally
Jupiter married her manager, his tireless,
shrewd efforts as a publicist had been notice*
ably absent. He’d recognized that the day of ggw- v Ji
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the costumed hero was over — even though we
hadn’t — and he'd gotten out while the getting 1947: SaltyJupiter marries Laurence
was good. Consequently, we found our Schexn&yder. Can you spot thefamous faces in the
exploits being reported less and less fre- crowd?
quently. When they were reported, the tone --

was often derisive I can remember a lot of hooded vigilante jokes coming into circulation
.

during the early fifties. The mildest was one that suggested we were called The Minutemen
due to our performance in the bedroom There were an awful lot of bright blue gags about
.

Sally Jupiter. 1 know, because she told me most of them herself the last time I saw her.
Sally had a baby girl named Laurel Jane in 1949, and it seemed to be right about then
that her marital problems started. These were widely discussed, so I don’t think I need repeat
them here. Suffice it to say that the marriage ended in 1956, and since then Sally has done a
first rate job of bringing her daughter up into a bright, spunky youngster that any mother

could be proud of.

The thing about that particular decade is that things first started getting serious then. 1
remember thinking at the time that it was funny how the more serious things got, the better
the Comedian seemed to do. Out of the whole bunch of us, he was the only one who was still
right up there on the front pages, still making the occasional headline. On the strength of his
military work he had good government connections, and it often seemed as if he was being
groomed into some sort of patriotic symbol. At the height of the McCarthy era, nobody had
any doubts about where the Comedian’s feet were planted politically.
That was more than could be said for the rest of us. We all had to testify before the House
Un American Activities Committee, and were all forced to reveal our true identities to one of
its representatives. Galling though this was, it didn’t present any immediate problems for

most of us. With Captain Metropolis having such an outstanding military record and with
my own service in the police force, we both were more or less cleared of suspicion right away.
Mothman met with more difficulty, mostly because of some left-wing friends he’d cultivated
his student days. He was eventually cleared, but the investigations were both lengthy
during
and ruthless, andthink that the pressure he was underat that time prompted the beginnings
I

of the drinking problem that has contributed so much to his later mental ill-health.
Only Hooded Justice refused to testify, on the grounds that he was not prepared to reveal
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his true identity u> anyone. When

pressed, he simply vanished . .nr
at least that's how
seemed. Van-
it

ishing is no big problem when

you're a costumed hero — you just
take your costume off. It seemed
quite likely that Hooded Justice
had simply chosen to retire rather

than reveal his identity, which the

authorities seemed perfectly happy
with
The only detail concerning
the disappearance of America's
first masked adventurer that still

nags at me was trivial, and maybe

not even connected at all; it was
brought up in an article that
appeared in The New Frontiersman,
almost a year after Hooded Justice
vanished. The author mentioned
the disappearance of a well known
circus strongman of the day named
Rolf Muller, who had quit his job
at the height ofthe Senate Subcom-

mittee hearings Three months

later, a badly decomposed body
that was tentatively identified as
Muller’s was pulled from the sea (left) HoodedJustice (right) Rolf Muller,
after being washed up on the coast IVtve they the same man

of Boston, Muller, assuming the

body actually was that ol the renowned weightlifter, had been shot through the head. The
inference ofthe article was that Muller, whose family was East German, ha* gone on the run
l

for fear of being uncovered while ihe Communist witch hunts were at their most feverish The .

piece also implied that Muller had probably been executed by his own Red superiors.
1 always wondered about that. Muller disappeared at almost exactly the same time as
Hooded Justice was last seen, and the two men had corresponding builds. Whether the body
washed upon ihat Boston shoreline belonged to Muller or not, neither he nor Hooded Just ice
were ever seen or heard from again Were they the same man? If they were, were they really
dead? If they were dead, who killed them? Was 1 looded Justice really working for the Reds? I

doh’t know, Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it s seldom when anything ever really gets
resolved it’s taken me a long time to realize that
Otic ot the big problems that faced costumed heroes at the time was the absence of
costumed criminals of any real note. don’t think any of us realized how much we needed
1

those goons until they started to thin out. You see, if you’re the only one who’d bothered to
turn up ior a free-for-all in costume, you tended to look kind of stupid. If the bad guys joined
in as well, it wasn't so bad, but without them it was always sort of embarrassing, '{’here had
never been as many costumed criminals as heroes, but with the end ofthe 1940s the trend
grew' muc h more pronounced.
Most ofthe crooks turned costumes along with their criminal careers, but some
in their

just opted for a less extroverted and more profitable approach. The new breed of villains,
despite their often colorful names, were mostly ordinary men in business suits who ran drug
and prostitution rackets. That’s not to say they didn’t cause as much trouble... far from it; I
just mean much fun lo fight. All the cases I ended up investigating during
that they weren't as
the ’50s seemed sordid and depressing and quite often blood-chillingly horrible. I don't know
what it was. [here just seemed to be a sort of bleak, uneasy feeling in the air. It was as if some
.

essential clement of our lives, of all our lives, was vanishing before we knew entirely what it
was, 1don’t think I could really describe it completely except maybe to somebody who
remembered the terrific elation we all felt after the war: we felt that we’d taken the worst that
the 20ih century could throw at us and stood our ground. We felt as if we’d really won a hard-
earned age of peace and prosperity that would see us well into the year 2000. This optimism
lasted all through the ’40s and the early ’50s, but by the middle of that latter decade it was
starting to wear thin, and there was a sort of ominous feeling in the air
Partly it was the beatniks, die jazz musicians and the poets openly condemning Ameri-
can values whenever they opened their mouths. Partly it was Elvis Presley and the whole Rock
V Roll boom. Had we fought a war for our country so that our daughters could scream and
swoon over young men who looked like this, who sounded like that* With all these sudden
social upheavals just when we thought we’d gotten everything straight, it was impossible to live
through the 950s without a sense of impending catastrophe bearing implacably down upon
1

the whole country, the whole world. Some people thought it was war and others hi night it was
i

flying saucers, but those things weren’t really what was bearing down upon us* What was
bearing down upon us was the 1960s,
The '60s. along with the mini-skirt and the Beatles, brought one thing to the world that
was significant above all others — its name was Dr. Manhattan. The arrival of Dr. Manhattan
would make the terms “masked hero" and “costumed adventurer” as obsolete as the persons
they described. A new phrase had entered the American language, just as a new and almost
terrifying concept had entered its consciousness. It was the dawn of the Super-Hero.
Manhattan's existence was announced to the world in the March of 1960, and don’t I

think there can have been anybody on the planet who didn’t feel that same strange jumble of
emotions when they heard the news. Foremost amongst this assortment of sensations was
disbelief. The idea of a being who could walk through walls, move from one place to another
without covering the intervening distance and re-arrange things completely with a single
thought was flat-out impossible. On the other hand, the people presenting this news to us
were our own government. The notion that they might simply have made it up was equally
improbable, and m the face of this contradiction, it became gradually easier to accept the
dream-like unreality of those first newsreel images: a blue man melting a tank with a wave of
his hand; the fragments of a disassembled rifle floating there eerily in the air with nobody
touching them. Once accepted as reality, however, such things became no easier to digest. If
von accept that floating rifle parts are real you also have to somehow accept that everything
yo U 'vc ever known to be a fact is probably untrue Thai peculiar unease is something that
most of us have learned to live with over the years, but it's still there
The other emotions that accompanied the announcement were perhaps harder to iden-
tifyand pin down. There was a certain elation ... it felt as if Santa Claus had suddenly turned
out to be real after all. Coupled with and complementary to this was a terrible and uneven
sense of fear and uncertainly. While this was hard to define precisely, if I had to boil it down
into three words, those words would be, “We've been replaced" I’m not just talking about the
nan-powered costumed hero fraternity here, you understand, although Dr. Manhattan’s
appearance was certainly one of the factors that led to my own increased feelings of obsole-
scence and my eventual decision to quit the hero business altogether. You see, while masked
vigilantes had certainly been made obsolete, so in a sense had every other living organism
upon the planet. 1 don’t think that society has fully realized yet just exactly what Dr. Manhat-
tan’s arrival means; how much it's likely to change every detail of our lives.
Although Dr. Manhattan was the most prominent by far of the ’New Breed’ of costumed
heroes he wasn’t quite the first nor by any means the last In the closing months of 1958, the
.

papers mentioned that a major opium and heroin smuggling racket had been busied by a
young adventurer named Ozymandias, who seemed 10 have quickly gained a reputation
amongst the criminal fraternity for his boundless and implacable intelligence, not to mention
a large degree of athletic prowess,
I met both Dr Manhattan and Ozymandias for the first time at a charity event in the
June of 1960. Ozymandias seemed to be a nice young fellow, although I personally found Dr.
Manhattan to be a little distant. Maybe that was more my fault than his, though, since I
found it very difficult to feel easy around the guy, even once I’d got used to the shock of his
physical presence. It’s a strange feeling.,, the first time you meet him your brain warns to
scream, blow' a fuse and shut itself down immediately, refusing to accept that he exists. This
lasts for a couple of minutes, at which time he’s still there and hasn’t gone away, and in the end

you just accept him because he’s standing there and talking to you and after a while it almost
seems normal.
Almost,
Anyway, at that charity event. was Red Cross relief for the ongoing famine in
. . I think it

India... a lot of things became apparent to me. Looking around at the other adventurers
there, 1 wasn’t happy with what I saw: The Comedian was there, imposing his overbearing
personality and his obnoxious cigar smoke upon anyone within reach. Mothman was there, a
glass in one hand, slurring his words and letting his sentences trail ofT into incoherence.
Captain Metropolis was there, his paunch starting to show despite a strict regimen of Cana-
dian Air Force Exercises. Finally, leaving the two younger heroes aside for a moment, there
was me: Forty-six years old and starting to feel it, still trying to cut it in the company of guys
who could level a mountain by snapping their fingers. 1 think it was when that moment of self
insight hit me that 1 first decided to finally hang up my mask and get myself a proper job. I’d
been about due to retire from the police force for some time, and I started wondering about
what I wanted to do now that the thrill of adventure had finally started to pale. Looking back
over my life, 1 tried to work out what I’d been doing during my existence’s happier stretches,
in order to form a basis for my future contentment.
After much deliberation, I concluded that I’d never been happier than when helping my
dad beat some sense into an obstinate engine down at Moe Vernon's yard. After a life of
crime-fighting, no notion seemed sweeter to me than that of spending my autumn years
contentedly making dead vehicles run again in the confines of my own auto repair shop.
In the May of this year, 1962, that’s exactly what I opted to do,
I lb mend cars. Probably for the rest of my life. As I see it, part of the art of being
retired,
a hero is knowing when you don’t need to be one anymore, realizing that the game has
changed and that the stakes are different and that there isn’t necessarily a place for you in this
strange new pantheon of extraordinary people. The world has moved on, and I’m content to
watch it from my armchair with a beer by my side and the smell of fresh oil still on my fingers.
Part of my contentment comes from knowing that there have maybe been some overall
consequence of my twenty-three years behind the mask. This knowledge came to me in the
shape of a letter from a young man whose name I’m not at liberty to reveal. He told me of his
great admiration for my efforts as Nite Owl and proposed that since S’d retired and would no
longer be using the name, perhaps he could borrow it since he intended to follow my example
and become a crime-fighter. I’ve visited his home since then and seen some of the fabulous
technology he intends to bring to bear on the war against crime, I was certainly far too
impressed to refuse him the use of what I’d always thought was a dumb name to begin with, so
by the time this sees print there be a new Nite Owl patrolling the streets of New ‘Vbrk.
may well
Also, Sally Jupiter tells me that as soon as little Lauries old enough she wants to be a super-
heroine just like her mom, so who knows? It seems as if from being a novelty nine-day
wonder, the super hero has become a part of American life. It’s here to stay.

For better, or for worse.

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YOU wece SAY VO Li 'RE JAnEY. IF CHANGED
DISINTEGRATED l like goo THEBE /S, I STILL
YOU PUT YOUR A.
SELF SACK.
WOW rw not
HIM.
WANT /
j v you-*. /,
TOGETHER

AS r LIE I HEAR HER

SHOUT1NS AT ME IN
ia S3; SOBS INS IN tAG6
MY FlMSERS OPEN. THE
PHOTOGRAPH I© FALL INS,
 ,

i i UiMp,
FEBRUARY, (AGO, AND
IT'S IT, ..ESPECIALLY
EVERYTHING IS FROZEN I - THIS HELMBT
AM starting to accept WHAT'S THIS
that I SHALL WEVEG F£EL , SY/V!SOU
COtD ok WARM again . \. STAND EOS.1 j

' UH vVELL IT ^
MEANS U l£E ATOMS
,

,
,

ATOMIC POWER,
LIKE THAT,,, .

MEANIN&LEG&
IT'S
gH
a Hvosoaen atom
would Be mope
APPROPRIATE I a-BUT
DON'T THINK Af THAT'S
\

^
r shall be the only
wearing /# place
. this, y/i WHERE voue
evaa&oc
r shows th e
TBS \V.kYf[
:

VM ‘
i BOYS SAV
you nebo a
^ffiTVJ \\ T ty SYMBOL , ,

I...T UK£ (T ! it's EOT

SOMETHINS, YOU KNOW they explain That The
ir« ^tAAO/Ct c?,< rT rT'* NAME HAS BEEN CHOSEN
FOR THE OMINOUS ASSO-
CIATIONS rr will RAISE in
Y£AW YEAH, T' AMERICAS ENEMIES. THEY'RE
THAT'S GOOO SHAPING ME into some-
thing GAUDY AND LETHAL.,,
PEOPLE will DOCTOR
ffeMeMBER IT
WHEN they WMAT ?
SEE IT THEY'LL
THINK OF OR.
MANHATTAN a
 J
‘

ACCORDING- TO
I MA|
march
'

,
iq&o... PENTAGON SOURCES,
THIS ASTON ISH N
|
<£»
INDIVIDUAL CAN CONTROL
T ...AND HERE,
1
r
DEMON STR ATI N 6
...STILL REEUN&
r..STU WE ATOMIC STRUCTURE THAT A PATTON
FROM TMIS MORNIWG'5 1
repeat-. ITSELF. WE SEE HIM TANK POSES HIM
ANNOUNCEMENT. _r
HE HERE DISMANTLING no greater
POSSIBLY THE MOST SUPERMAN A RIFLE WITHOUT L DIFFICULT /, 1

j
SI&NIFICANT exists TOUCWNS IT..,
EVENT IN RECENT AND HE'S
WORLD HISTORY j AMERICAN

^HASTHEPE
r BEEN NO
^ ^
RESPONSE from the
kBEMLIN AS OF
THIS TIME,,. A

Whowand
r
INDEED
...

this almost
,
^
ALTHDU&H PHOTOGRAPHED
LATE THIS AFTERNOON
INSTEAD,WE
ASKED THOSE
UNBELIEVABLE DEVELOP- AT THE SlLA FLATS COSTUMED
MENT WILL AFFECT TEST BASE THE Vl&lL ANTES r WELL,
THE PACE IN WEAPONRY I SUPEPHUMAN... COO E- REMAIN NS I UHH, WE'RE
ANp SPACE TECHMOU&V NAMED L>R- MANHATTAN .
FROM THE ALEASEO,
HAS VET TO BE HAS NOT SPOKEN J
... I940'S OBVIOUSLY.
N ASSIMILATEO A ^ TO THE press J^k HEPO FAP
HOW THEY
.

FELT, ^ A

GILA FLi
TEST B
:-TO 0QUOTN>

well, you know T MEAW,YOU SOMETIMES I

...THEY SAY HE WEAR AN OLD FEEL AS IF
WALKS THROU&H POUBLE BREASTED
-
HAVE TVS SEEN
WALLS AND SH/T FOR THAT HERE ALL THE
STUFF PHOTO SESSION v TIME .

AND \lE)(T
THIN&, EVERV-
rr 'LL BELIEVE gOOVS TALKING
(T When r ABOUT ITS
FASHION
BNIFICANCE
S/Q>N(F1CANC
CAN YOU
IMASlNBl

I'm thepe now, in ro&o,

SAVING THOSE WORO&,
WATCHING. THAT T,V SET,.
TO'*.
"***! n:\
NOW IT'S rUMB
charity event with
SEVERAL. COSTUMED
ADVENTURERS ATTENDING
FRIENDLY middle-
AGED MEM WHO LIKE
TO DRESS UP. I
WAVE NOTHING IN
COMMON WITH THEM.

ONLY THE YOUNGEST,

CALLED OZYMAMP/AS,
SEEMS INTERESTING,-,

IT'SNOVEMBER THE
NEWSPAPERS' CALL ME
A CRiMEpiGHTER SO ,

THE PENTAGON SAYS I

MUST LIGHT CRIME
IN MOLOCH'S under-
ground VICE-DEN,
the SIGHS TURN TO
SCREAMS OP TERROR-

THE MORALITY OF
MV ACTIVITIES
ESCAPES' ME .

IT'S SEPTEMBER, rqfcl . TWO VEAGS LATER,

JOHN KENNEDY IS SHAKING IN DALLAS, HIS
MV HAND, AS KINS WHAT HEAD SNAPS
IT'S LIKE to 3E a SUPER- forward AND
HERO. X TELL HIM HE then SACK
SHOULD KNOW AND HE TWO SHOTS,,,
MOOS, LAUGHING.,,
 IKI
—
MAY, m2, A M ASKED MAN
RETIRES TO OPEN AN AUTO
/TWEN WHY
'
have you
CHOSEN TO
r
PARTLY
PARTLY, I
GUESS IT'S
(JUSIfJeSS. MS REAL NAME 15 RETIRE NOW* . YOU .. A
HOLLIS MASON WE ABE JS IT YOUC
TAUCIN6 AFTER A OW£ V AGE? y
BANQUET (N HI© HONOR.

DALLAS I©
STILL EIGHT-
EEN MONTHS
A WAV'."

WITH SOMEONE
r LIKEYOU ABOUND, THE
^
WHOLE SITUATION CHAn&ES
YOU CAN DO ANYTHING
ALL X SOT TO OFFER
\S A GOOD LEFT HOOK

NAM I'M , \
SETTER OFC RE- \ BE AWHILE
f ... And IT'LL SEE I UNDERSTAND
,

CARS, MOW THEY WORK

VRfNG, WGIT1N6 V BEFORE EVEN THAT'S MOPE'N I CAN
my ao ro&tdG PAPPY YOU AFFFCT SAY POP THE REST
REPAiRin' FOLKS'
CARS FOG 'EM.,, /Y MOTORS
i GENERAL V O' this world. ^
CARS abe SOME
THING I'M
HAPPY WITH.

TjT WELL,
c the new 's
ELECTRIC CARS
SHOULD BE EVEN
V SIMPLER y

F' THAT'S RIGHT. THEY’D \

f/ HAVE APPEARED BEFORE, ' YEAH,
But there wasn't ewoush I HOPE SO
i lithium to mass-produce . TOO.
\ POLYACeryiENE &ATTE&E6
ft OF COURSE, X CAN y
L\ yV
Ov SYNTHESIZE
EASILY.
IT
^y\

EIGHTEEN MONTHS
AWAY, AN ELECTRfO
-IMOUSINEIS
LIMOUSINE IS PULLING
PULLING
ONTO OEALEY PLAZA...
 ? ?

I can't n / JDNj WHAT f IN iRSR, X \

PREVENT THE / ACE YOU OOULD HEAR YOU 1

FUTURE. 70 MG, '

SAVIN& ? SHOUTING, here,
IT'S ALREADY TWflT YOU NOW, IN IP £>3- i
WAPPEW/NG y tMOW THE SOON WE MAKE /
FUTURE N LOVE,., SA
ABOUT EVERY'
TWING ? ABOUT

TUST LIKE
y that like I'm a
/ PUPPET ? TON YOU KNOW 1
f
1
^
HOW EVERYTHING <N THr£>
world PiT$ together except
PEOPLE YOU& PREDICTION S f

WAV PAIR. WINTER J

/ NO. WE MAKE GHUT X mean, allTHis new

f
LOVE Right YOU RE j
TBCUNOLO&V All BECAUSE
alter wallV messing OP VOUi THING S A (26
ARRIVE* with UP AAV M!NO, HAPPENING
t too PAST.
it
THE EARPIbl&S TON SOME-
1 ( .Ft.JHkj
if f

. I ORDERED TIMES I THINK

V for voui« y YOU'RE TMAT“ THE
MESSING
BVESyTHlNb
UP!
 ;

...THIRD, UH, r 1

GUESS 1 SHOULD
IT'S- 11364- . I'M IT'S lPfe-6 I'M WELCOME EVERV-
INFORMING the IN A ROOM OF SODY TO THE
PENTAGON THAT PEOPLE WEARING FWST
FtRET &VEI
EVER
I'LL NO LONGER D IS GUISES. MEETING £7F
8E WEARING the came-
rue WHOLE OF Qu&rses
AAV COSTUME.

A VERY YOU N GIRL.

(S»
SITE TO MY RIGHT. 5 WE
LOOKS AT ME AND SMILES.

WHAT'S v# HPU WERE STACKS

IN TABS, IN IPGS, T-HE AT Tt^A7 &!RL te>
1 |i

MV HANDS the MfiTTpe? V ?we MATTED s/OW '

ACE COSTUMED .. ptfy ATTENTION

ENCIRCLING PEOPLE
HER APE
FACE . ARGUING.
JANEY IS
TUGGING
AT MY
ACM,,,

SOON, THE MEETING BREAKS TANEY ACCUSES ME

OUTSIDE-
UP. TANEY'S VOICE IS OP "CHA&N& JAtt-ZAtT* SHE
I
COLD FURIOUS ...
, BURSTS INTO ANGRY TEARS
ASKING IF IT'S BECAUSE
SHE'S SETTING OLDER

IT'S TRUE. SHE’S

AGING MORE
NOTICEABLY
EVERY DAY.,.
 , ,

you ! i
knew you were
seeing her?
" I KNEW /
^
IT'S Sites
YOU TO COME
op
x
A UU.i,
YPU» 7
you're
$/CK' MOW
OU T ON PATROL GtRL- oto rs ewe
WITH ME. MV FRIEND FOURTEEN
MOM TAUSHT WOW' T v pifteew
ME EVERYTHIN^ M/MO,
SHE KNEW gUT WILL
I'M STILL PRETTY she?
A/£W TO ALL ,

THIS. Vi

x
A YOU TELL HER '

YOU TELL MEG WHAT

^KNOW WHAT
DON'TX-.-T
X
T IT'S (SONNA BE LIKE
WHEN HE® FACE
SHOULD CALL YOU WQ INKLES UP AMD WE®
MY NAME'S LAURIE ^ 0O0S5 START SASfelwS
DO YDtl HAVB MV AND YOU'RE -STILL

.
Another name,
APART FROM PC’-
MANHATTAN? .
NAME'S
JON
,

> V
Y OODPAMNEO /
thirty : >/

r you t
TELL WER
ANp SEE
WHAT SHE
SAYS TO
v THAT f

I
;
,

n11
Jji
 ,

f
h-
INKGq, I'M RECEIVING NEWS <S/lA flats
closes down
OF MV FATHER'S DEATH . IN IR 70 ON
LAURIE'S
. IN JANUARY W7I, PRESENT
TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY; NIXON IS ASKING ME TO
WE MOVE INTO OUR NEW 7 INTERVENE in VIETNAM,
IN iA5R , HE'S OPEN INS A \ WASHINGTON APARTMENT. /
WNilE TEN YEARS EARLIER.
TELES RAM FROM THE —L,
KENNEDY IS AVOIDING AnV
MILITARY INFORMING MENTION OF CUBA
1 *
1

HIM OF HIS SON'S REVEALED MV TRUE

-

I'VE
ACCIDENTAL pISINTESRA- NAME TO THE PUBLIC -

TlOW, I NEVER CORRECT - AFTER FATHER'S DEATH.

THEIR MISTAKE THERE seems LITTLE POINT ,
[

— IN CONCEALING* IT

LATER IN NOVEMBER, I’M

TOLP THAT WALLY WEAVER MAS
DIED OF CANCER, A6ED 34

MARCH. I'M IN
IT'S
SAIGON, BEING
REINTRODUCED to
EDWARD BLAKE, THE
COMEDIAN HE WORKS .

MOSTLY FOR THE

GOVERNMENT NOW.

BLAKE IS INTERESTING*
I HAVE NEVER MET
ANYONE SO
DELIBERATELY amoral

AS I COME TO
UNDERSTAND VIETNAM
AND WHAT IT IMPLIES
ABOUT THE HUMAN
"ONDITION I ALSO
CONDITION,
,

REALIZE THAT PEW

HUMANS WILL PERMIT
themselves SUCH
AW UNDERSTANDING
 %jy crvi t-tu 7
i
,
" i

TO SURRENDER TO
(T'Smav. I THE VfETOONS ME PERSONALLY,
have been ARE EXPECTED THEIR TERROR OP
HEBE TWO To SURRENDER ME BALANCED BV
months . WITHIN THE AN ALMOST
WEEK. MANY religious awe.
HAVE GIVEN
themselves
UP ALREADY,,,

I AM REMINDED OP HOW THE

JAPANESE WERE REPORTED
TO HAVE VIEWED THE ATOMIC
BOMS, APTER HIROSHIMA-

IT'S JUNE, VV.N. NIGHT, ANP

THE COMEDIAN IS SLIDING
A GUN FROM ITS HOLSTER,
SLOOP STREAMING FROM
HIS LACERATED FACE...

I I =» lUOCH^I'ICO. lUlt^lt-'IINK
TOCREATE SOMETHING X ,

TURN AWAY FROM STARS

THAT MAY HAVE BURNED
out aeons ago. r no
LONGER WISH TO LOOK
AT THEM

I NO LONGER
WISH TO LOOK
AT DEAD
THINGS*.
 rr'S iq7S. THE PAPERS ARE
FULL OF THE PRESIDENT'S HIS REAL NAME IS
PROPOSED CON&rtJUTfOtJAL APBIAN V£f0T, A SELF-
amendment allowing, MADE MILLIONAIRE •

HIM TO PUN NEXT YEAR AFTER PETIC1N&

FOP A THIRD TERM FROM ADVENTURING-
HE INVITES LAURIE
AND ME TO VISIT HIM
AMIDST ALL THIS, THE AT H IS ANTARCTIC
UNMASKING- AN p RETIRE- RETREAT.
MENT OF OZYMANQ/A S
soes almost unnoticed
U£ i mfiil
5MAR1
QUIT5 MAN
WORL
I

GOES
PUBU

WHIftK ViiOT All At

r
THAT'S, BuSASTtE
SHE'S A SENETrCALLV
IT'S LEAPT
in the last
PORWAPP ’'•l
fifteen
O
nM
ALTERED 4V/VX YEARS a\Z£RYTH/N6 E£|
THEY COST RATHE** r i hadn't 11
HAS, from, guantum
A LOT TO PE£0> REALIZED THAT physics to
.

\ I‘M afpaid ^ eu&BNice WAS l reanspost.

iv
SO A0VANC&P
NOW,,. f p*
ru^-^TCahrF
f^ |; rT lu for^
EXAMPLE ,1
UN DECS tan O
I TS THAT FAST AND
'
:
JI-IS'lPl SAFE AIP&WP&
M Av soon BE
ECONOMICALLY
'

VIABLE..,

...AND WE OWE
IT ALL TO YOU
WITH vour HELP, HIS EYES ARE SAP
OUR SCIENTISTS AND KNOWIN6- HI&
are LIMITED SERVANTS BRING* US’
ONLY BY THEIR INDONESIAN FOOD
AND HE TALKS ABOUT
HIS BUSINESS PLANS,
ALL THE TIME
FEEDING, SCRAPS TO
WiS BEAUTIFUL
MONSTPOOS CAT,,.
 CUOOSING A SPOT
IT'S IA&5. IN IQT7, A City i5 SHOUTING. BELOW ME i

TO BEGIN MY CREATION I , LAURIE

Sit down. Pink sand lies HAULS THE
POOLED IN MY Bt-UE PALM claiming that costumed RINGLEADERS
ADVENTURERS ARE making FROM THE
THEIR JOB IMPOSSIBLE, CROWD/ gUT
THIS DESERTED THE POLICE ARE ON STRIKE, THE PROCESS
PLANET IT IS EVERYONE IS FRIGHTENED, IS TOO
SO WON PEP FULLY, SCENTING ANARCHY. BLOW.,,
COMPLETELY
SILENT.

r LOOK at ^
WtWLOOK AT
THAT FSBAK IT'S !

AGAINST GOO

THE NEXT DAY, I AM

ntnnnminrf^ w; (uiiirc ww. a READING IN THE PAPER
OF TWO PEOPLE WHO
SUFFERED HEART
ATTACKS UPON SUDDEN-
LY finding themselves
INDOORS MORE WOULD
HA YE SUFFERED DURING
A RIOT I'M CERTAIN.
t
 L
.

AS LONS AS I CONTINUE
AU&UST 3 RD, IAT 7 : VI&ILANTISM IS NOW TO ACT UNDER U S.
THE EMEC&ENCY ILLEGAL AO AIM * AS SOVERNMENT SUPERVISION,
BILL PROPOSED IT WAS BEFORE TREY I AM EXEMPT FROM THE
BY SENATOR ALTERED THg LAWS LAW. THEY CAN HARDLY
tceeue has seen TO ACCOMMODATE OUTLAW ME WHEN TL££R
passed. StRATESICALLY COUNTRY'S DEFENSE
USEFUL TALENTS RESTS IN MY HANDS
SUCH AS MYSELF.

BLAKE IS ALSO
EXEMPT SINCE
HE TOO WORKS
ENTIRELY FDR
THE SOVERN
MENT

LATER A FTtrR HIS

HANDLING OP THE
,

RAM An HOSTASE
I I

SITUATION* EVEM
HIS HARSHEST
CRITICS FALL SILENT.
LAURIE STILL HATES
HIM, HOWEVER.

*****

hf: THE ONLY OTHER ACTIVE

THE NEW MT£ DWL VI&fLANTe IS CALLUP
HAS STATED THAT SoasCNACAt REA,
HE WILL RE NAME uwrnOWN.
RETI&N 6 , ALTHOUGH
HE WILL WOT BE
MAW INS HIS HE EXPRESSES HlS FEELINGS
IDENTITY PUBLIC. TOWARD COMPULSORY
retirement in a mote left
OUTSIDE PDUCE HEAD*
DU A STEPS ALOHS WITH A
LAURIE'S MET HIM DEAD MULTIPLE KAPitST.
SEVERAL times SHE
€>AV$ HIS NAME
I© DREIBER&.
 .

r m A.
AND
IT'S iQftl NOW. LAURIE SHE'D LIKE IT HERE . BUT THIS IS ILLUSION
... .

l AGE SETTLING intoouR THINGS HAVE THEIR

new quarters AT THE
rockefeller miutary
research center in
NEW YORK.
SHAPE IN TIME, NOT SPACE
THROUGH MV BLUE FINGERS, ALONE SOME MARBLE
PINK GRAINS ACE PALLING, BLOCKS HAVE STATUES
haphazard, random, a within them embedded*
disorganized stream of
,

in their future.
SILICONE THAT SEEMS
IT'S WELL-E0U1PPE0 PREGNANT WITH THE
FOR MV WORK BUT , POSSIBILITY OF every
LAUCiE feels wEve CONCEIVABLE SHAPE,,.
LOST OUG PRIVACY

in IflEP, A CHILD rs WEEPING

IN NEW FOG ITS LOST BALLOONS.
YORK, WE 60
WALKING.

® w® :
the streets smell
OF OZONE RATHER
THAN GASOLINE
PLAT INTANGIBLE
BLOTS OF GRAY
SHOE ACROSS THE
SUMMER SIDEWALKS,
THE SHADOWS OF
OVE RHEAD AIRSHIPS

ANY MOMENT NOW, JAnEY'S

WATCHeAND WILL SPEAK
SOME WHERE, THE PATMAN
is already lumbering
TOWARD THE SHOOTING
SALLERY, STEPS HEAVY
WITH UNWITTING DESTINY.

IT'S AUGUST, iag-5 I'M ON THE CoveR THERE IS

WALKING THROUGH GRAND A DAMAGED POCKET-
CENTRAL STATION WITH WATCH STOPPED AT THE
/ hands frozen
LAURIE WE STOP AT THE INSTANT OF THE BLAST,
newsstand And Suva
COPY OF TIME MAGAZINE,
COMM EMDCATINS
 ; .

^KV:~Tf H
ITS SATURDAY, OCTOBER
i2*th, and we are
iqbs,
SEIN& INFORMED DP
11 WEDNESDAV THE IGTH LAURIE
IE
.

VISITING HER MOTHER WHILE

I ATTEND BLAKE'S FUNERAL,
SATURDAV THE IRTH WOW- MV
HANDS ENCIRCLE LAURIE'S
PADS.,,
EDWARD BLAKE'S MURDER L
a thin man in a slack IN 1066 , THE COSTUMED
LAUBI E'SMOQP COAT LEAVES ROSES, then PEOPLE ARE ARGUING
seems restless WALKS A way. DOT KNOW HIM?
FOR THE
REMAINDER OF
TH£ WEEkEND

LATER STILL AND IN THE

,
ITS LATER, LAURIE IS CROWDED TV. STUDIO,! AM
walking out on me. BEING ACCUSED OF KILLING
THOSE CLOSEST TO ME

ON A BOOPfOP IN THE
PAST 1 PULL HER
t
&rVTEEN-VEAR-OLD
BODY TO ME BREATHING
,

HEP PERFUME, NEVER

WANTING TO LOSE HER,
KNOWING THAT I SHALL

THE WORD "CANceR " RUNS

Through the aupiencs
on a firecracker
STRING OF ANXIOUS
WHISPERS-
.W
I AM TIRED OF THIS WORLD
THESE PEOPLE I AM TIRED.
1

OF BEING CAUGHT IN THE

TANGLE OF THEIR LIVES.

N ARIZONA. r'M ENTERING

THE RUINED BAR With A
SENSATION OF OETA VU„,

.y
gone to a Place without
clocks without SEASOMft
,
WITHOUT HOUR6LASSE6
TO TRAP THE SWIFTIN&
PINK SAND.
A WORLD GROWS UP
ABOUNO ME. AM X
SHAPIN& (T, OR DO
ITS PReDeTERMINEp
couTDuR& guide
MV HAND?

IN (AA5,THE &OMBS
ARE falungon
JAPAN THE C06€> ARE
,

FALLING ON BROOKLYN,
SEEDS OF THE FUTURE,
SOWN CARELESSLY,..

WITHOUT ME, THINGS

WOULD WAVE gEEN
DIFFERENT. IF THE FAT
MAW HADN'T CRUSHED
THE WATCH IF I /
HADN'T LEFT IT IN
THE TEST CHAMBER,,,

am x to blame, then?
OB THE FAT MAN ? WHICH OF uS
OR MV FATHER, FOP (5 RESPONSIBLE?
CHOOSING MV CAREER?
 PERHAPS TwE wOBuD
S NOT MADE PERHAPS A CLOCK. WITHOUT
N0THI.N6 iS MAPE A CRAFTSMAN -

PERHAPS IT Sw\PLY
IS, HAS BEEN, WILL
always se there,,.

r Am STANDING on a
FIRE ESCAPE IN iflA-S,
CEACHIN6 CUT TO STOP
RATHER, TA*e THE COG5
JVW
AND FLYWHEELS FROM
THEM ALL
HIM, PIECE
TOSETHEC A6AIN...

8UTIT'S TOO LATE ALWAYS

,
HAS SEEN, ALWAYS WILL
BE TOO LATE -

The reteose
ABOVE THE MODUS
MOUNTAINS, of atom power
JEWELS in A MAKEft- has thonged
LtSS MECHANISM THE
Rst m f Tf or it e e.
,
f- (
everything
ARE STARTING TO PALL
except our way
of thinking...

The solution

to this problem

lies in the heart

of mankind.
DR. MANHATTAN:
SUPERPOWERS
AND THE
SUPERPOWERS

BY PROFESSOR MILTON GLASS

Introduction

For those of us who delight in such things, the twentieth century

has, in its mankind with an array of behavioral
unfolding, presented
paradoxes and moral conundrums hitherto unimagined and perhaps
unimaginable. Science, traditional enemy of mysticism and religion,
has taken on a growing understanding that the model of the universe
suggested by quantum physics differs very little from the universe that
Taoists and other mystics have existed in for centuries. Large numbers
of young people, raised in rigidly structured and industrially oriented
cultures, violently reject industrialism and seek instead some modified
version of the agricultural lifestyle that their forebears (debatably)
enjoyed, including extended communal families and in some instances
a barter economy in miniature. Children starve while boots costing
many thousands of dollars leave their mark upon the surface of the
moon. We have labored long to build a heaven, only to find it popu-
lated with horrors.
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when
preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the
name of peace. This dichotomy is not an invention of the twentieth
century, yet it is in this century that the most striking examples of the
phenomena have appeared. Never before has man pursued global
harmony more vocally while amassing stockpiles of weapons so devas-
tating in their effect. The second world war— we were told— was The
War To End Wars. The development of the atomic bomb is the Weapon
To End Wars.
And yet wars continue. Currently, no nation on this planet is not
involved in some form of armed
if not against its neighbors
struggle,
then against internal forces. Furthermore, as ever-escalating amounts
of money are poured into the pursuit of the specific weapon or conflict
on our economies creates a run-
that will bring lasting peace, the drain
down urban landscape where crime flourishes and people are con-
cerned with national security than with the simple personal
less
security needed to stop at the store late at night for a quart of milk with-
out being mugged. The places we struggled so viciously to keep safe
are becoming increasingly dangerous. The wars to end wars, the weap-
ons end wars, these things have failed
to us.
Now we have a man to end wars.
Since my association with Dr, Jonathan Osterman and the being he
eventuallybecame are well documented elsewhere, f feel I need only
recap them briefly here. In 1959, in an accident that was certainly
unplanned and just as certainly unrepeatable, a young American man
was completely disintegrated, at least in a physical sense. Despite the
absence of a body, a form of electromagnetic pattern resembling con-
sciousness survived, and was able, in time, to rebuild an approxima-
tion of the body it had lost.

DR. MANHATTAN:
 Perhaps in the process of reconstructing its corporeal form, this new
and wholly original entity achieved a complete mastery of all matter;
able to shape reality by the manipulation of its basic building blocks.
When news of this being's phenomenal genesis was first released to the
world, a certain phrase was used that has— at varying times— been
attributed both to me and to others. On the newsflashes coming over
our tvs on that one sentence was repeated over and over
fateful night,
again: 'The superman exists and he's American.'
I never said that, although ! do recall saying something similar to a
persistent reporter who would not leave without a quote. I presume the
remark was edited or toned down so as not to offend public sensibili-
ties; in any event, never said 'The superman exists and he's Ameri-
!

can'. What 1 said was 'God exists and he's American'. If that statement
starts to chill you after a couple of moments' consideration, then don't
be alarmed. A feeling of intense and crushing religious terror at the
concept indicates only that you are still sane.
Since the mid-1960s, when the dazed and numbed mass conscious-
ness first began to comprehend the significance of this new life form in
humanity's midst, the political balance has changed drastically. Many
people in this country fee! that this is for the best. America's unques-
tioned military supremacy has also provided us with a certain eco-
nomic leverage where we can dictate the economic policies of the
western world and direct them to our advantage. There is little wonder,
then, that the idea of a world run by an omnipotent God-King owing
allegiance to the United States seems eminently desirable. By placing
our superhuman benefactor in the position of a walking nuclear deter-
rent, it is assumed we have finally guaranteed lasting peace on earth. It
is with this last contention that my most serious point of issue lies: 1 do

not believe that we have a man to end wars.

1 believe that we have made a man to end worlds.
The assumption that America's opponents are powerless before Dr.
Manhattan, while comforting, begins to fail before closer examination.
As I understand current Pentagon thinking, the conventional wisdom
suggests that when faced with an insoluble problem, the Soviet Union
will have no other option than acceptance of a loss of world influence
culminating in its eventual defeat. It has been demonstrated, at least in
well -supported theoretical terms, that Dr, Manhattan could at any time
destroy large areas of Soviet territory instantly. It has been similarly
theoretically demonstrated that, were a full scale nuclear assault to be
launched upon America from Soviet bases in the U.S.S.R. and Europe,
Dr. Manhattan would be able to deflect or disarm at least sixty per-
cent of all incoming missiles before they had reached their targets.
Against odds like that, it is argued, Russia would never risk instigating
a full-scale global conflict. Since it is not in America's interests to pro-
mote such a conflict,does that mean that global peace is once and
finally assured? No, It does not.
For one thing, it is an assumption based upon the belief that Ameri-
can psychology and its Soviet counterpart are interchangeable. To
understand the Russian attitude to the possibility of a third world war
one must firstunderstand their attitude to the second. In WWII, none
of the allied powers fought so bitterly or sustained such losses as did
the Russians. It was Hitler's lack of success in his assault upon the

SUPER-POWERS AND THE SUPERPOWERS

Soviet heartland that assured his eventual defeat, and though it was
paid for mostly by Soviet lives, the entire world reaped the benefits. In
time, the Russian contribution to the war effort has been downplayed
and dismissed— most noticeably as our political differences became
wider— as we glorified our own contribution while forgetting that of
our estranged former allies. The Russians, however, have not forgotten.
There are still those who remember the horror of a war fought on their
soil,and almost certainly there are members of the Politburo in that
category. From my reading of various pronouncements made by the
Russian high command over the years, I am convinced that they will
never again permit their nation to be threatened in a similar manner, no
mutter what the cost,
The presence of a deterrent such as Dr.Manhattan has doubtless
curbed Soviet adventurism, as there have been numerous occasions
when the USSR. has had to step down over some issue rather than
risk escalation into a war it certainly could not win. Often, these rever-
sals have been humiliating, and this has perhaps fostered the illusion
that the Soviets will suffersuch indignities endlessly. This is a miscon-
ception, for there is indeed another option available.
That option is Mutually Assured Destruction. Stated simply. Dr.
Manhattan cannot stop all the Soviet warheads from reaching Ameri-
can soil, even a greatly reduced percentage would still be more than
enough to effectively end the organic life in the northern hemisphere.
The suggestion that the presence of a superhuman has inclined the
world more towards peace is refudiated by the sharp increase in both
Russian and American nuclear stockpiles since the advent of Dr. Man-
hattan. Infinite destruction divided by two or ten or twenty is still infi-
nite destruction. If threatened with eventual domination, would the
Soviets pursue this unquestionably suicidal course? Yes. Given their
history and their view of the world, I believe that they would.
Our current administration believes otherwise. They continually
push their unearned advantage until American influence comes
uncomfortably close key areas of Soviet interest. It is as if— with a
to
real live Deity on their side— our leaders have become intoxicated with
a heady draught of Omnipotence-by-Association, without realizing just
how his very existence has deformed the lives of every living creature
on the face of this planet.
This is true in a domestic sense as well as a broader, international
one. The technology that Dr. Manhattan has made possible has
changed the way we think about our clothes, our food, our travel. We
drive in electric cars and travel in leisure and comfort in clean, economi-
cal airships. Our entire culture has had to contort itself to accommodate
the presence of something more than human, and we have all felt the
results of this. The evidence surrounds us, in our everyday lives and on
the front pages of the newspapers we read. One single being has been
allowed to change the entire world, pushing it closer to its eventual
destruction in the process, The Gods now walk amongst us, affecting
the lives of every man, woman and child on the planet in a direct way
rather than through mythology and the reassurances of faith, The
safety of a whole world rests in the hands of a being far beyond what
we understand to be human.
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan.

DR. MANHATTAN:
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demands uf pirate stories chan many of his
splierjc
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dominating the marketplace from a near unassaii EC contempuraries, he was perhaps the best

able position The brief surge of antkomic book respected artist in a rapidly burgeoning held, and

sentiment in (he mid fifties, ft bile it could conce tv- fans awaited the ftrsi issue of TALES OF THE
ably have damaged E C as a company, had instead BLACK FREIGHTER with relish

mme to nothing and leit them stronger as a result Nor were they disappointed The firs! issue is

With the government of the day coming down classic Orlando The script by i hen newcomer

squarely nn the side of comic books in an effort to

pmterl the image of certain comic book inspired
Max Shea- while sturdy enough,
predictable in comparison with the work that Shea
is diched and
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agents in their employ, it was as if the comic mdns did later and in that first issue was easily out

try had suddenly been given the blessing of Uncle shone by the darkly compelling majesty of Grlan
Sam himself— or al least J Edgar Hoover llnsur dos textures, shadows and faces
pn singly, as one of the few companies to antici The story served as an introduction to ihe vessel

pate the coming massive boom in pirate- related ihai lent the book its title, and which was itself

material, E C flourished and their hold upon the apparently burrowed from a ship referred lo in

hHd remained unchallenged Brecht and Weill THREEPENNY OPERA In (hat

s

Until May, I960. That dale saw the first publica- firsi story, three men wilh different paths through
tion of an extraordinary new title from National life have all been led lo the same dockside tavern
( omn \ now DC The book was
:
t ailed Tales of the in search of work The place is deserted save for a

shadowy innkeeper who serves them m silence

W
Black Freighter and while its sales never ale

and the large, dark figure of a sea captain who sits

at the next table and listens to them recount their

A MAN ON stories to

The
each other
stories are recounted as small self

contained tales within the larger narrative that

FIFTEEN frames them, and are all effective if predictable

twisl-cnding yarns ihat reveal the various tellers to

DEAD MEN'S CHESTS be utterly unprincipled and worthless creatures

capable of almost any act of treachery Overhear-
ing their stories, the sea captain says he is

quite tupped those EG of thp giants such as impressed and offers them passage upon his ship
PIRACY and BUCCANEERS, m terms of critical By the time the men are aboard the ship and have
;n rUirri and influence upon idler books of the noticed ihe dreadful, dcalhly smell that seems to

same type, TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER exude from the ships timbers, it is tou late The
made an impression upon the comic book land- three hapless sailors learn that ihe ship is a vessel

scape that remains tu this day Indeed, with DC from Hell iiself to take on hoard the souls of evil

comics currently reprinting he I first classic thirty men so lhat they may walk its blood-stained decks

issues of the title and apparently meeting with for all eternity

considerable success, it would seem that its The dent iiy

i of Ihe captain is never made dear
impact remains undiluted despite the quartet ten — is he meant to I* Satan, or is he himself a vk
7 when
tury i hat has elapsed since the original publics fim of (he ship But this scarcely matters

non coni ranted wilh Orlandos breathtaking rendition

Whal exactly was it that made TALES OF THE From the marvelous scene m the first man s story

BLACK FREIGHTER so special? Despite the fact where two ghouls fight to the death wilh shovels in

that nowadays most people are dltracted by Ihe the worm- infested tunnels
controversy surrounding the later issues of the beneath a churchyard, JOE ORLANDO, CIRCA 1953
book, it should l>e remembered that (hts Mile was right through the haunt
very popular from the outsel So Whai was it ihai ing and evocative final

fascinated all I hose thousands of readers in the shots of the horrible black

first place 7 ship drifting away into Ihe

WelJ. lo begin with, it was almost certainly the while mist, the art is

artwork of Joe Orlando, who drew ihe eniire book breathtaking, conveying a

from its first issue 1 h rough issue mne with (he tangible sense of doom
exception of GALAPAGOS JONES, a raiher insipid and evil even in those

back-up feature that lasted until issue six Orlando, places where the writing

having been successfully templed away from his fails to do so.

well-received run of SARGASSO SEA STORIES in With Ihe issues that fol-

E C s PIRACY by National editor Julius Schwartz, lowed, Orlandos art com

was regarded as a star amongst pirate artists, and a tinued lo shine white the
prize catch Having adapted mure smoothly from scripts supplied by Shea
 l

5
also began In gradually improw in quality as the Freighter which they climb to take their rightful
writer became used to I he medium With rapidly positions on hoard the ship, remain some of
CHAPTER
increasing confidence Shea began attempting Orlandos most haunting work on the series
ideas fur Tories which at the time seemed wildly By issue five, reader reaction was obviously in
radical and innovator The third issues story. favor of the litle. and the praise seemed lo be
Between Breaths" is mid from the viewpoint of a divided equally between Orlando and Shea,
man who is drowning. alternating between mem According to insiders receiving Ian mad for the
ones of his past life a> they flash before Ins bulg' first lime in ins life had an adverse effecl upon

H
ingeyes and hnmfic dest upturns uf w hat it h like the wriier, who f>egan to see himself as the driv-
to drown Even read lodav, the story induces an ing force of the book, becoming increasingly
almost tangible sense uf MjfhoOon, so thal fin- resentful of Orlando s clearly important role and
ishing the slerv am) pull ing I he book down is harassing I he artist with impossibly detailed
in dirtily j relief The e losing images, with a multi- panel descriptions and endless carping requests
tude m 1 dead and drowned men walking aims the (or revisions of artwork already drawn
OINK bed toward* the anchor rope of the Black Despite growing friction within the creative

TALES OF
team, both lasted on

THE BLACK FREIGHTER until

the mulh issue, when Orlando
CAfffH l APS i

AC iN tHE POT H£ G<x?± asked Schwartz lo take him off

mp rtioM Wtf &a.N WELL MA*£
the book Citing the ego of the
A LffT±£ JWUH
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e*&n a t OuG s
Atop ££ rThEAEASA0LA^E in his decision During those nine
W' TH OCWIWNG PU#*
issues they crafted many memo-
rable stories together including
l he most famous of all. The
Shanty of Edward Teach' in issue

seven In I his story, narrated m

rhyme by the dead pirate Edward
leach jollier wise known as Black

I ward |
we first begin |t> see the
dark and pessimism moral sense
hr lilies showing that were later to

form most uf Sheas work on the

series These are more i ha n ade-
quately matched by Orlando's art
work, and there can be few
readers of I hat period who will

forget the heart-stopping dose up

shot of Blackboard, portrayed as

violent and leering evil incarnate,

in which lie seems lo look out al

I he reader and remind I hem that

their own position is perhaps no

more noble than Teach s own I

tread a lurching timber world, a

reeking sal I -caked hell; and yd

perhaps.no worse a world ih.tn

yours, where bishops stroll

i h rough charnel yards wil.h

pomanders to smell; where vile

men thrive and love crawls on all

fours

After Orlandos departure, the

^EAP A OPCHM& TM8E* Atm p A fiEEKiN^
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by a relatively unknown but
supremely capable artist named
Wall Eeinberg, previously best

known for his work upon numer-

ous western titles where he win Id
often provide excellent fill-in

issues that nevertheless seemed

60 /
 TREASURY

TREASURE

OF

ISLAND
COMICS
to go unnoticed when slotted in between the work escape from the island by whal may be one of Ihe

of great western comic artists such as Gil Kane mosl striking and horrific devices thus far in

and Alex Toth. Despite having Orlandos early pirate comic books: digging up the recently bur-
work on the series to live up to, on TALES OF ied and gas-bloated corpses of his shipmates, the

THE BLACK FREIGHTER, Feinberg was finally manner lashes them together and uses them as
given a chance to shine For some reason, there the floats on an improvised raft on which he
are few incidents on record relating friction hopes to reach the mainland (hence the title of

between Feinberg and Shea, and indeed Ihe two this chapter) On reaching the mainland safely

of them continued to work tagel her on Ihe book

until issue thirty-one, at which point Shea quit

(perhaps the moody and temperamental writer

was making a deliberate effort to control his

behavior, having been taught an expensive lesson

by Orlandos departure!,
En any event ihe nexi iwenly or so issues of the

hook became every bit as much inslanl classics as

the Orlando issues had. a fact not hindered by

Shea's gradually developing skill as a writer

The stories lhat came from his pen in this per

tod are uniformly dark and sinister balancing
metaphysical terrors against an unnerving sense
of reality; particularly when applied to matters of
mortality or sexuality Readers who came to the
series expecting a good musing tale of swash-

buckling were either repulsed or fascinated by

what were often perverse and blackly lingering
comments upon the human condition Tkles such

as The Figurehead", which deal unflinchingly upon his horrific craft we see the increasingly dis-

with male homosexuality and Ihe harrowing traught and dishevelled mariner trying desper

Marooned spring most readily to mind ately to reach his home, even resorting to murder
In 'Marooned . a two-part story occupying to acquire a horse for himself In the final scenes,

issues twenly-lhree and twenty-four of the book s thanks to the skillful interplay of lext and pic-

run, we see Fcmberg and Shea ai iheir blood- tures, we see thal the mariner though he has
freezing best. Unusual in that it is a one character escaped from his island, is in Ihe end marooned
story narrated mostly in captions, Marooned" from the rest of humanity in a much more terri-

tells the story of a young mariner whiffle vessel is ble fashion

wrecked by the Black Freighter before il ran Problems set in for the book around issue

return to its hometown and warn at ul Ihe hell- twenty-fire, when Shea began his controversial

ships approach. Cast adrifl on an uninhabited

island with only his dead
shipmates for company,
we experience the frantic

mariner s torment at I he
knowledge that while he is

trapped on his island, Ihe

bestial crew of the
Freighter are surely hearing

down upon bis town, his

home, his wife and his chil-

dren. Driven by his burning

desire to avert this calamity,

we see ihe mariner finally
 5
CHAPTER

•at

run of issues based around the contents of plun- as those in any of his stories, the writer appar-
dered books m the library of the Freighter's cap- ently vanished from his home one morning and
lain including banned tomes supposedly has not been seen since, although police are con-
originaJly headed for eternal suppression within tinning their inquiries. In his wake he leaves not
the vaults of Vatican city when stolen en route by only a siring of excellent novels and screenplays,
the pirates. Described as blatantly pornographic] - but also an exemplary run of pirate stories which
lour of the protected five stones were rejected by today fetch mint prices ol almost a thousand dol
DC, which brought about the argument in which lars according to the Overstreet Guide.Stories there
.Shea quit the hook and comics as well, going on to be rediscovered and reexamined. Like so many
to write such classic novels as the twice-filmed of the fascinating sunken treasures lurking just
FOGDANCING beneath the surface of this fabulous and compel-
Al the time of this writing, Shea's where- ling genre,
abouts are unknown In circumstances as strange I'

62
PROM THE NOTES OP DR. MALCOLM
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SOME OH the IT AT THE
pun' t oet too wrapped FAT AmD STUFF ABOUT opp/ce. you
up in this one, mal contented HrS EARLY UPE, sot a n ice
IT MISMT RUIN J pop AnY- FANTASIES AgOtJT LffE, J SOT
Y£>UQ CHEERFUL A THINS TO A FATHER I

piSPOSfTtOM COIN MY HE NEVER A

DISPOSE
TIONnf
L
KNEW A

vOH'QE THE NICEST, MOST

POSITIVE PERSON I KNOW
THAT'S WHY YOU &OTTA
LOOJCAPTBR YPUfiSELF. I
MEAN, ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE
$APE WITH THIS
L. KOVACS &UV?
 —

—— '

&OOD / SORRY, LATE T'D LIKETO WILL YOU

RORNIN&, NI6WT TODAY, T'D TALK ABOUT ©O THAT
WALTER LIKE TO DO S>OM£ BORSCHA CM FOR MB ,
TO PAY, T'D TLIM6 DtFPERENT WALTER?
LIKE... FRANKLY, WALTER
LIKE TO
> HAAA-
V
V I'D talk: v WILL YOU
TELL ME
RHHO&RM ABOUT
RORSCHACH

YOU KEEP I DON'T

CALLING ME LIKE YOU
WALTER .

YOU. ..YOU WUP.WHV PAT. WEALTHY.

DON'T LIRE /§ that, Think YOU I LL TELL
M E ALRIGHT- EXACTLY"* UNDERSTAND you ABOUT
Alright. PAIN > RORSCHACH

X'LL TELL
YOU SOME
TWNU,
DOCTOR
 3 , —
A 6ED Ifo
children's home became
LEFT !
•
1

IN
G2 SPECIAL ORDER FOG dress
NEW DO MANHATTAN $P(N-
—
"wrong
Black and whue.
moving, changing
unskilled manual worker off fabric viscous fluids NOT UGLY I SHAPE g(jT
MBMEWr industry ;
^
BETWEEN two
Q^TU/CCi. TuU/\ I AwCD/^ LATEX,
layers
Jr flTfrv'
:
AT All. fl not mixing-
HEAT and pressure SENSITIVE , La B NO GRAY
"JOB SBAGABle
0UT UNPLEASANT 'CUSTOMER YOUNG GIRL , ITALIAN
HAD TO HANDLE UAME NEVER COLLECTED ORDER.
female Clothing. SAID DRESS LOOKED UGLY .

"NOBODY wanted it meant WOMAN WHO'D ordered

cog ME TOOK IT HOME SPECIAL PRESS
LEARNED to CUT IT USIN6
HEATED IMPLEMENTS TO
RESEAl lATE* kitty GENOVESE

WhEn I mAD
CUT it ENOUGH, rsoon 1 , r TWO YEARS T
ITDIDN'T LOOK BECAME PASSED MARCH
lIKE A WOMAN SORED (064 STOPPED
Anymore "
fabric AT NEWSSTAND
had no ON WAY TO
useleft WORK, SOUGHT
IT IN PAPER THERE
TRUNK.. she was .

FORGOT FRONT A
ABOUT V
.

page Aa

" I'M SURE THAT WAS

The WOMAN’S NAME.

H
GAPED ro«TU«ED KILlEP HERE SOME OF THEM SVEN WATCHED.
• N NEW YORK OUTSIDE HER MADE A
Own APARTMENT gufLDIWG FACE THAT X
I KNEW WHAT PEOPLE WERE, COULD SEAR
then, behind all the evasions, TO LOOK AT
ALMOST forty NEIGHBORS ALL THE SELF-DECEPTION IN THE
HEARD SCREAMS NO&ODV DID ASHAMED for humanity, mirror
Anything NOBODY CAllSD T WENT HOME X TOOK
COPS SOME OF THEM. EVEN THE REMAINS OF HER
HATCHED do you UNDERSTAND 7 UNWANTED DRESS,..'
 WALTER fFS WHAT I THINK
HAPPENED TD KITTY r YOU'VE SEEN
V M5?OH,
WO. YOU JUST
TMrNK IT THINK
Genovese rbalcv conditioned well., t YOU'RE '&OOO
ne&ATtve
WITH A WOULDN'T
SAY THAT-
v people : y
WORIO view
there ace
6000 PEOPLE,
TOO, LIKE.,.

LA/L-rV
You SPENDING SO
MUCH TIME WITH
ME, DOCTOR?

DM .., WELL < other people, BUT THEN

... ,

I BECAUSE I DOWN tw CELLS. THEY'RE MOT

ABOUT YOU BEHAVIOR FAMOUS. WONT
BECAUSE I MOG& EifTeEME SET YOUR
WANT TO MAKE THAN MINE NAME IN THf
vou WELL TOUGNALS. i

YOU DON'T
SPEND Awv
TIME WITH
w THEM.,,

7 DON'T WANT
TO MAKS NE-
WELL JUST
WANT TO KNOW
WHAT MAKES

FROM THE MOTES OF OR. MALCOLM

lpm&, ocTOSea 2.6 tw 19&S. , KOVACe HATED his mother -

AF TEC HER DEATH, HE NEEDED

SOMEWHERE to PUT the
OF COURSE, WHAT WE AN 6ER, Awo SO HE CHOSE
HEBE |S A CLASSIC CA THE CRIMINAL FRATERNITY.
misdirected ao6Rf csio
THE FLIMSY
STORY ABOUT
(cittv&enovese
'
IS OBVIOUSLY
THERE TO
JUSTIFY HIS
gEHAVIORTO
LATER: 7UE DEPUTY WARDEN
XD6-T CALL EP APPARENTLY,
KOVACS WAS INVOLVED IKi AW
INCIDENT TODAY, JUST AFTER
HE'D SEEN M£ IT WAKENED
DlfRlNS LONCH, IN THE CANTEEN
 , X

zm:
THE GUARDS INTERVENED, AS THEY DRASSED HIM MY EARLIER OPTIMISM WAS
DBA66INS KOVACS AWAY TO AWAY RORSCHACH SPOKE OBVIOUSLY UNFOUNDED.
SOLI TAP Y ANp THE OTHER TO THE inmates HE'S SETTINS WORSE
MAN TO THE PRISON hospital .

S X
HE "NONE OP YOU UNDEB-
ACCOCDlWS TO THE DEPUTY STAND fU NOT LOCKED UP TN
WARDEN, his Bug ns WERE HEBE WITH YOU YOU'RE LOCKED
HOPPtFiC HOT COOK UNO UP IN HERE WITH ME."
FAT X DON'T L'KE TO
THINK ABOUT IT

AM IA JJUST
SC MiY' - RE-AO BACK WHAT
UP KC«yr *vi-ii-i r

TVE written above, the sixth

LINE DOWN SHOULD bead "KOvACS
I SPOKE TO THE OTHER INMATE S."

OW.Hl,6LORlA .

~ ACTUALLY, REMEMBER 1
MAI? N WASN'T PLANNING LAST NtGHT,
YOU 'PE NEVES ON SLEEPING MAL 7 WHEN
60 NNA SLEEP JUST YET , 1 PEOUIBED
WITH ALL THAT Attention ?
COFFEE j
THIS KOVACS
INSIDE / CASE YOU KNOW
L YOU . /[ requires
A LOT OF
ATTENTION..

>Y -AND Til

f

T &LOR\A, / PGANKLY I Vj
ptEA&e 1 ’
THINK IT'S T
THEN WAS UNFAIR OF YOU
TW/FiN NOW TO SPINS UP
,is wbw. WHEN YOU KNOW
, T NEED TO J
•K WORK yl

OH WELL,MAVgE
I JUST SOMETIMES 1 YOU'RE LOCKED UP fM WEPE
NOTICE HOW OP TEN with ME," lie SAID'
YOU SPINS UP r WAIT '

WOffK WHEW / Sl oRiA/

YOU KNOW I / WHAT DO
WEED SEX YOU MEAN 7

COME SACK
HERB. WE CA W
eooo NiOHT, . TALK...
iVAL

he<& eiOhT

ABSOLUTELY BlOHT
 Al&bUT,
eoe... /Tweafter
r ^
MURDER’
OF KITTY
A alriOmt, > SENCYESETDU
.this
Walter.. deoped Yo
AFTEPNOON X VENT YOUR
WANT TO PICK HOSTILITY
UP WHERE UPON TW£
Jk
WE LEFT
OFF..' A \ awe
J l b- i
world ...A

'
SOP T?
f ONSOFT
f 6CUAA
X,
WOW OO TOO YOUNO
YOU TO KNOW ANY
MSAN 1 SETTER. MOLLY-
COODLEO
V THEM A

AS
OPPOSED > \ f WELL, LOOKING* AT
YOUfl FILE, TMEPE‘5
to AAR no eecoao of
TACOS! ANp SEStOUE VIOLEWOE
TH£ OTHER A&AinST CRIMINALS
MURPERs N BEFORE A 75 I

VOU'GE
OHA R&ED
WITH , LIKE
PRESUMAftLY I SAY
SOFT
 MOT
RORSCHACH *w nss, worked
WITH MITE OWL ‘until ME
BRinGinG STREET GOT S OFT
NOT GANGS UNDGC LIKE (?£ST
CONTROL TACKLED
THE $\6 FIGURE
together. brought UNTIL HE
DOWN UNDERBOSS SUIT. *
TOGETHER. GOOD
TEAM.

V—— EXCEPT COMEDIAN MET

N
HIM in iq bb FORCEFUL
NO OP US ALL .HE UNDER STOOD
STAYING PERSONALITY DIDN'T CAKE MOST. ABOUT WORLD ABOUT
POWER l IP PEOPLE LIKED HIM PEOPLE ABOUT SOCIETY AND
NONE OF }\ UNCOMPROMISING . WHAT'S HAPPENING TO IT.
THEM 2 ^
ADMIRED
TU AT

THINGS EVERYONE
KNOWS IN GUT
THINGS EVERYONE
TOO SCAPED TO
FACE. TOO POLITE
TO TALK ABOUT.
I3b| '*!

HE UMPEO^TOOP

f UNDERSTOOD r once a ^
MAW'S CfiPAOTY MAN NAS
FOR HORRORS seen, he can
AnO we^ER NEVER TURN
(SUIT. SAW THE L|iS BACK
WORLD'S BLACK ON IT. NEVER
UNDERBELLY PRETEND
AND NEVER IT DOESN'T
. SURRENDERED. v EXIST A
 — — , .

PROM THE (VOTES OF OR. MALCOLM

n
L — ^ — 27 TH, tQ&S ;
LOWS. OCTOBER
i

HI* LAST WORDS

TODAY WERE "WE
DO IT BECAUSE WE*
ARE COMPELLED

BUT HE NEVER SAYS WHAT IT/S THEY'RE NOT what TURNEO IT S AS IF CONTINUAL CONTACT
THAT compels HIM IT'S NOT HIS HIM INTO RORSCHACH. WITH SOCIETY'S <?KM ELEMENTS
CHILDHOOD, MIS MOTHER 09. WAS SHAPED HIM INTO SOME-
MTTY GENOVESE THOSE THINGS TH INS GRIMMER, SOMETHING
JUST MADE him OVER-REACT TO EVEN WORSE
THE INJUSTICE IN THE WORLD
S IF ONLY X COULD
THEV'Ce CONVINCE HIM THAT
NOT WHAT EEI ISN'T LIKE
UFE IT?™ I

SENT HIM I THAT.THE WORLD

OVER ITS I ISN'T LIKE THAT.
EOGE.

SOUGHT A GA2 ETTE ON WAY
HOME, INCLUDING A SMALL
PIECE ABOUT KOV4CS WHICH
THE NEWSVENDOR pointed?
OUT EXCITEDLY X GUESS WE
DOES THAT TO EVERYBODY-
apparently,
KOVACS VISITED
W 5 NEWSSTAND * TRIVIAL, BUT
REGULARLY. UNSETTLING.
S0 WAS THE FRONT RAGE AT HOME, GLORIA SEEMED
RUSSIAN TANKS WAVE ANXIOUS TO SWEETEN THINGS
ENTERED PAKISTAN AFTER YESTERDAY AND TOLD
ME SHE'D INVITED GAWDY AniO
DIANA TO D 1 NWEG TOMORROW.
ON SEVENTH AVENUE, SOMEONE
HAD SPRAYED SILHOUETTE
FIGURES ONTO THE WALL. IT
reminded ME OF THE
PEOPLE DISINTEGRATED AT
HIROSHIMA LEAVING ONLY
THEiR INDELIBLE SHADOWS

WAS TOO EXHAUSTED

TO TAKE IN All THE
DETAILS AND SUGGESTED
AN EARLY NIGHT.
 z

FROM THE NOTE& Qt PR MALCOLM

00N&. otrc&ee 2bTut !Qe>s

TODAY HE HELLO/
TOLD AA& aoetcu.AC m
EVECYTMiMfi. HOW AP£
|
YOU
TODAY ?

YES. I KNOW. I ,,,

ULU.I THOUGHT YOU
MI6HT HAVE SEEN
HOLOIN6 8A etc SEF0BE
AND X WAKJTEP TP

HALF.
 siAiee some six tears
J OLD KIDNAPPERS SEL'EVED
1075 SHE WA& CONNECTED TO DCASSeO
KiPNAP v BOCUE CHEMICAL BY MO DECIDED
CASE POHTUNE WORD PPPVv TO INTERVENE
PERHAPS KIDNAPPERS- PBOAAiSED
VOU STUPID MISTAKE thought op PARENTS T'P
rememsei? PATHgt? WAS BUS LITTLE CHILD. BE TURN HER
DRIVER mO MONEY abused, UNHARMED.
P(?I 6 mtehEP
DIDN'T LIKE
IT PERSONAL
REASONS

"ATTACK DOSS 7 WO &ERMAW

SHEPHERDS, PiShtinS OVER
|Cno8 op BONE. DIDN'T SEEM
INTERESTED in ME

DEC NOT TO use

REAR KTCAMCe y wav
Ain
 Y.V.

/ SmDCk OF \ / IT WAS N
IMPACT CAW KDVACS WkO
AtOt^O MV A CM 5AIP "/WrwgB"
JET DP WMBMTM THEM, MUFFLED
$pATTeceo UWDEO LATEX.
(pwi CHEST, (T WAS KOVACS
LIKE HOT ,
WHO CLOSED
\ PALLET J HIS EVES. ,

V PUT
ACC DC Di MS DBIWKIM6 1
r TO AAV IN POE? WHEW X
MAWT,MAW USIW& (CALLED
PREMISES NAMED BETUPWEDTO
DR^SSMAXEBS
AT TEW PDRTY-

* *
- -
 r r
HELLO, tf'MOK.i.
resor WHO'6 GOT
Dabney -a bask roe
I'M HOME ^ Wc>dy? ,

m'm
$ms

•nt’T 1
 LOOK,,. LOOK,
r know what
T^U
r
THIWK I’M
SOMETH IW6 TO ou.&oo 1
YOU TWfWK. DO WITH THAT PLEASE,-
LITTLE 6«?U WHAT 00 YOU
WANT? -
r WfcLL,
V'VOU ^
WELL
A/OT^OKAY
OKAY?
,T'iv\
7
^CAW'T
r PRQVS 1
ANVTHIM& T 1

nAFASJ ,VVH- WMEfiE'S

the Evidence ?
YOU CAW 'TOO i
. AwYTHrw 6 J
k. TO.,,
 i

YES 'AM AT
DO '

V0 U
S=
SHOULDN'T
.V£V<E#
MAKE
n (N .
MEAN
WMAT AM I
SUPPOSED
3

gcruee TWB L Ti£)- J

T&YtNS olj
TO SAW XE5U5,Atf*
thQQU&h VDU'RE
NANO- KtOOlNS
CUF&3 i YOU NAVE
to fie
Kfpp rw&

6TOOT JN STREET
HATCHED £T g<JC?M

tN\AO\NED UNLESS FELT

TO&SC& IN5I DE BREASTS ;

8LA£«&nMN 6 gELUE£

—
;

SMOLDEBINJ6 gg£ST<N& ;
IWTO PLAV^E OmE gVOWE
i

l l Bill
watcwEP h£u£
 .

'STOOP N £ tREUbHT $ w £ LTERtH&

\
/
BLQOPS TAfM ON CHEST LIKE MAP ’
LIVE OUR LIVES, LACKING
OF WLEntt NEW CONTINENT. anything BETTER. TO DO
DEVISE REASON LATER
PELT CLEANSED. FELT DARK
PLANET TURN UNDER MY F££T
and knew what cats know
THAT MAKES THEM SCREAM
w
“BORN FROM OBLIVION ,
BEAR children, hell-
LIKE BABIES IN NIGHT sound AS OURSELVES;
SO INTO OBLIVION.

THERE <3
NOTHiNS ELSE

TMJ6 BuODEfflE^^
^ gxrSTEN
CanDO^
CE \ NO
r

A/DGLD is (NOT SHAPBO 1 " STREETS ~

f
[6 HA 5 f \ BV VA&UE MtTAPUY&lCfikL STANK
wc?PATTED m ^AVE MEAN fW6 FORCES, rr NOT 600 WHO OP FiRE. THE VOID
WWATWE IMA^JME £AVE WHAT KILLS THE CWfLDREM. NOT BREATHED hard- ON AAy
fSTAgfMG we CW05E FATE THAT gCJ TCHEftS THEM heart, turning its
AT IT tOR TOO TO (MPOSE- OR OE^TfNV THAT ILLUSIONS TO ICE,
K. LONG y y
L
Ik.
FEEDS THEM TO
T ME D065
J
A ^ SHATTERING THEM ,

VVAS REBORN
THEN, FREE TO
SCRAWL OWN
DESIGN ON TMfS
only morally blank
US, . WORLD A
/Viv ;•

WAS RORSCHACH
 .

FHOM TWe NOTES OF DC. MALCOLM

LONb. OCTOBER 23TH, f4&£r: l&NOBED HIM g OUGHT PAPEB
RUSSIAN* CLAIM THAT F/6HTIN6
SPILLING INTO PAKISTAN
WALKED HOME ACCIDENTAL- NIXON SAYS US
ALONG 40TH STREET. WILL MEET CONTINUED SOVIET
SAYS THAT Any OEAD
FAMILYMEMBERS SHOULD SE
WAS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC GARBAGE
SACKS AND PLACED OUTSIDE
FOR COLLECTION .

a Slack man A&StfESSI ON WITH FOECE

TRIED TO SELL ME
A COLEK' WATCH .

WHEN T KEPT iN*ioe_,

WALKING WE ARTICLE
STARTED SHOUTING ON NUCLEAR
"NiO&ER ! HEY,
"
ALERT
Utb&EQ ! PROCEDURE

NIXON PR0M15
MAXIMUM FORI ON *7TH AVENUE, THE
HIROSHIMA LOVERS WERE STILL
TRYING INADEQUATELY TO
CONSOLE ONE ANOTHER

HOME &LORIA REMINDED ME

= DINNER DIDN'T 6OV6DY WELL r today >
THAT RANDY AND DIANA WERE HE TOLD
CDMIN& TOW1&HT. LOOKED ME ABOUT A
CROSS WwEN I CONFESSED SO,MAL, WOW ^ V Ou.VEG. fy\«L WHO &OT
FORGOTTEN W£ DRESSED
T'D ARE THIW6S 60 IW6TELL HE HA* kidnapped.
POD DINNED IN SILENCE WITH TH15 FAMOUS HE TOLD YOU
MABtCBP MAfJfAC Anythin*
mmoKKttw
,

OPVOUCS? J
n yet? J-

WTHIS
r
LOOK, MAYBE
SUCH
ISN'T
A &OOD IDEA
L RI6HT wow...
 - l .

DfAuA REMEMBERED THAT l L-Wf' C IPJ i

WHV DO IVE ABGUE? LICE'? GO
THElp BAgV^ITTER MAD TD WEAEJIN6- HER FRAGILE, A SUCCESSFUL VIRUS
%B HOME EARLY AkJD THEY opat, ^ustectep clinging tt? a speck OF mud,
LEFT 600N AFTER DINNER .
ME TO A LOT DP SUSPENDED IN ENDLESS NOTHING
ORUDE SEXUAL
INSULTS WEMT
f.

GLORIA WEWT OUT- TME

INTO TW£
BEDROOM front oooe
I RPLLOWEP HER. £LAf\AMED.
6HE WALkEpOUT
A&AlN INTO
TM£ HALL-

weKT w/EEiK, I COULD 86

puTTrw& wee imttd a
GARBAGE SACK, PLACING H£R
OUTSIDE FOR COLLECTION .

IT LOOKED more like a dead

CAT I ONCE F£XJND the CAT,
GLISTENING &RU8S’ WRITHING |

8LINDLV, SQUIRMING OVER

EACH OTHER, FRANTICALLY
TUNNELING AWAv FROM
THE LIGHT

0UT EVEN THAT

IS AVOIDING
THE R£AU
HORROR

Bridle no!

a i Hi monsters

leu ye become

o monster

mid if you
into the nbysv
the obyss go/u
oho inlo you

friediith

Wilhelm

Nietahe
 I — ^ r a

Form WALTER

mi York .

Sice Department
WHAT TAN

z^^^" riyi

„„
KOWCS, Walterjlo^dJ '

pijamc

trams
Address

Burn CLICKS
KOVftCS
Mothers name

^
Ui^ticwn

Monday,

rw - ^”'THT
octobe

veu^M^ *?£ tu
ounded the
^ ^
of
se ° £ ^*“" K A
MOtOCH,
.,
— follcW11^

Mured
.„
»
«» -
“oTftr^ -
*r
an anonymous
- 9 arrest.
<*e«^ ^ ^
0 shot at
point
1=
»
p,Uoo ° ffl<*” while Officer a sternw and
r qU1
' ^ 5lu>ttore
hospital^ -powered qraPPling
1

'
10 / 22 / 85 )
•

blank ranqe
wi ll aas
'
Ust as of this
itinn .
,
(

^ discovered m
crltic al
still on the
0«P U Kdv of ** ‘ than
the house
*«>
was ®PlotBl
'

^ ,
the
^ „rder —P» £ooly, less

^^ it should
shot threw «, fingerprints ig lack
the kitchen,

^W
-» I**’ of daeobl.
WO
*,»»lw«l
feet away.
,)lil “ W was wearing
noeaen has
'
•
imrder
Ms location
I

Z prints is
. il! hlthouqh
1-
_

«—»
^ ^^
1
previous
I given his
^ ^ ciM ,
few other those of
mltm e
in the
mrdet house! nurdors atf
i
^ of wanted
I

wacs
GBWJ> «"*
M has no.
'

“
nwms
^ tao other

two years
in the
later
•*»
s™«>
»
'

^ of 1,71.

«« ™WU
^
'
’
ii f
rapist Art into !»• „«e os fU*""
c heene , ,
the of **»“ Chariot'
chewrno
the contents ,*«.
^^
follows ^eet, J^=
the tine
of wrapped =*» ^cent
M , iIvilvidually
rel fL subway syst™.
'

” ’ rose,-
batten' P«* ^terq round and one red
,

. -- ballpoint pen, one not^-

,

! 1
sugar,
nations
one dollar
dr«!
fi ft V "
rt
^ alMt
^ >ssorted hnse
an elaborate
cyp
chM-'^
cologne for
toe crashed

I •— aij^r»» i«w
Tden rf st(Wl0
during
black pepper-
^
W «“-ri'^ st ™ Y uinw

IT
________
-C7Ikr.il, TnMrf"*
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 New York State Psychiatric Hospital
West Branch

EARLY HISTORY: A SUMMARY

spring
Sylvia Kovacs came to New York from Ohio in the
Joseph Kovacs, whom she divorced in 19
with her husband, Peter
mutual accusations of adultery and mental cruelty,
she had no further contact wit.. 1th her -- former
.
T —
low-rent
husband, and for the next
apartments, both alone
three years, she lived in a number of i

when she drifted

and with a number of male acquaintances Exactly
into prostitution as a means of meeting her
moun ting debts is uncertain,
that her last semi-permanent relationship was with
but it seems likely months before the
two
the true father of Walter Kovacs unwilling to provide
baby was born, Mrs, Kovacs was ' unable or
other ame was Charlie* .
any details concerning him
Mrs Kovacs first
1

Sicne shortly after the birth of her son we

*

prostitution we can s assume that the addi^

arrest on charges of , p
what necessitated
been
tional cost of keeping an infa to whether the above
perha as
this new occupation and ,
which Sylvia Kovacs
ntinent and cruelty
factors were the cause of the
showed to her son as he grew o
ioy was admitted into care
after vi-
In the July of 1951, t blinding
n the street, partially
ciously attacking two older bo
one of them. When questioned, acs refused to talk about what had
caused him to attack the boys, it must be presumed that it was an
unprovoked assault, Mere: investigation of the circumstances
the boy lived in revealed was regularly beaten and exposed
to the worst excesses of <
:ut£s lifestyle, and it was decide to
is admitted to the Lillian
Charlton
place the child under can he remained until 1956,
Home for Problem Children n New Jersey,
where
was intelligent and stable enough to func-
when it was decided that !

from
tion in normal society, ring his time at hte home, removed
Kovacs did very well at schoolwork,
his mother's negative inf ence,
literature and religious ed-
excelling particularly in the fields of
uscation as well as possessing an impressive .

si

qymnastics and amateur boxing. While quiet and

shy, especially with women, Kovacs was
capable
of long and well-reasoned conversations with h
classmates and instructors, and struck most pe
as a serious 1 OR PH03
^i^^thdrawn CHIUS1

aside, it is clear that his

of his mother remained undiminished. Sho
before Kovacs left the Charlton home in
i

news was rece*. — —

ived that his mother, who h
made any attempt to contact her child and who ha<
continued to become further involved in the worli
of small-time vice, had been murdered. Her body
had been found in a back alleyway in the South
Bronx, the cause of death being the forced ing
e st ion of Dr a no ^cleaning fluid, A man named
Georg
Paterson, Mrs. jfnvacs* pimp, was later charged
 < , l ,

tate Psychiat
r,c Hospital
Branch
news was b
*a
'Good •
ter K °vacs
esidence ln s
the f ?l
tv^; fc
this
then aged si
m l0yment
3n h
h
in a me
t

Lai
or a r
Sr eS ° f
*o
sm
'
tcs lef t
a parp
nt ly re caDH ^ a P a ^tments
a K f l
he
j
duaJ Ufe garment
*
f
ui «
the
bet we ft mid*
j:iSi1 eVlde
-3
nce
en t and
fh? ex tsthat gives
troub led *£;
5 3 ®°me Police a cle^ 6c insight
pro Pl>et-e off 1Cer s have
last"*
Veral years -doom sandwieh-b,
5U t as oard man
?SS ff
'. lf an y- this
'
Kovacs reifuses
i dot provable to di*
t

gh i
90 1 hi
nave been »w? "«te rii i rela
at such
an ear- «
Jno to his
?''«? dcrim, piwt,ocopies ear
, at the of
?«
SJ"' trans o 7 „ Chari
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ONE AM

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choked on 'ece.
,
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of her throat. her tried to fish
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,d in her m
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throat. was like he had his
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the house was get a doctor, so
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I

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towards me down the
dark
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around thei nfeet uontethi
and underwear t, ,and I looked
and stuff. down and j saw it
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feelings when I towards me. and then
woke up. Dirty f ee li
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OUT YOUR OWN EQUIPMENT, it ^ THAT. ~jt SURPRISED TO FOLLOW HIM INTO
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s it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe

E and catalogue its peculiarities in such minute detail, that it

becomes invisible? Is it possible that while fastidiously calibrating

the span of its wings or the length of its tarsus, we somehow lose

sight of its poetry? That in our pedestrian descriptions of a

 1 ] V.\ /Ji marbled or vermiculated plum-
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£f the sensibilities of statisticians and dissec*

tionists, we distance ourselves increasingly
-*X%f from the marvelous and spell-binding planet of
imagination whose gravity drew us our studies
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the first place.

This is not to say that we should cease to establish facts and to verify our information, but
merely to suggest that unless those facts can be imbued with the flash of poetic insight then they
remain dull gems; semi -precious stones scarcely worth the collecting.
When we stare into the catatonic black bead of a Parakeet's eye we must teach ourselves to

glimpse the cold, alien madness that Max Ernst perceived when he chose to robe his naked
brides in confections of scarlet feather and the transplanted monstrous heads of exotic birds.
When some ocean-going Kite or Tern is captured in the sharp blue gaze of our Zeiss lenses, we
must be able to see the stop motion flight of sepia gulls through the early kinetic photographs of
Muybridge, beating white wings tracing a slow oscilloscope line through space and time.
Looking hawk, we see the minute differences in width of the shaft lines on the
at a
underfeathers where the Egyptians once saw Horus and the burning eye of holy vengeance
incarnate. Until we transform our mere sightings into genuine visions; until our ear is mature
enough to order a symphony from the shrill pandemonium of the aviary; until then we may
have a hobby, but we shall not have a passion.
When 1 was a boy, my passion was for owls. During the long summers of the early fifties,

while the rest of the country was apparently watching the skies for incoming flying saucers or
Soviet missiles, 1 would hare across the New England fields in the heart of the night, sneakers
munching through the dried grass and bracken towards my watch, where I would sit peering
upwards in hope of a different sort of spectacle, ears straining for the weird scream that meant
an old bird was out combing the dark for sustenance, a mad hermit screech, glaringly distinct
from the snoring hiss of a younger owl.
Somewhere over the years; sometime during the yawning expanse between those snug years
in the afterglow of a war well won and these current times, huddled in the looming shadow of a
war unwin nable; someplace along the line my passion got lost, unwittingly refined from the
original gleaming ore down to a banal and luster less filing system. This gradual tarnishing had
gone unnoticed, unchecked, finally calcifying into unthinking habit. It was not until compara-
tively recently that I managed to catch a dazzling glimpse of the mothcrlode through the
accumulated dust of methodical study and academia: visiting a sick acquaintance at a hospital
in Maine on behalf of a mutual friend, walking back across the shadowy parking lot with my
mind reduced to blankness by the various concerns of the day, I suddenly and unexpectedly
heard the cry of a hunting owl.
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It was a bird advanced in years, ils shriek that of a deranged old man, wheeling madly
through the dark and freezing sky against the ragged night clouds, and the sound halted me in

my footsteps. It is a fallacy to suppose that owls screech to startle their prey from hiding, as some
have suggested; the cry of the hunting owl is a voice from Hell, and it turns the scrabbling voles
to statues, roots the weasel to the soil. In my instant of paralysis there on the glistening
macadam, between the sleeping automobiles, 1 understood the purpose behind the cry with a
biting clarity, the way I'd understood it as a boy, belly flat against the warm summer earth. In
that extended and timeless moment, I felt the kinship of simple animal fear along with all those
other creatures much smaller and more vulnerable than I who had heard the scream as I had
heard it, The owl was not attempting to frighten his food into
were struck motionless as I was.
revealing itself. Perched with disconcerting stillness upon its branch for hours, drinking in the
darkness through dilated and thirsty pupils, the owl had already spotted its dinner. The screech
served merely to transfix the chosen morsel, pinning it to the ground with a shrill nail of blind,

helpless terror Not knowing which of us had been selected, I stood frozen along with the
rodents of the field, my heart hammering as it waited for the sudden clutch of sharpened steel
fingers that would provide my first and only indication that I was the predetermined victim.
The feat hers of owls are soft and downy; they make no sound at all as they drop through the dark
stratas of the sky The silence before an owl swoops is a V-Bomb silence, and you never hear the
one that hits you.

Somewhere away in the crepuscular gloom beyond the yellow-lit hospital grounds I thought I

heard something small emit its ultimate squeal. The moment had passed, I could move again,
along with all the relieved, invisible denizens of the tall grass. We were safe.lt wasn't screaming
for us, not this time. We could continue with our nocturnal business, with our lives, searching
for a meal or a mate. We were not twitching nervelessly in stifling, stinking darkness, head first
down the gullet of the swooping horror, our tails dangling pathetically from that vicious scimitar
beak for hours hefore finally our hind legs and pelvic girdle are disgorged, our empty, matted
skin curiously inverted by the process.
Although I had recovered my motor abilities in the aftermath of the owl's shriek, I found that
my equilibrium was not so easily regained. Some facet of the experience had struck a chord in
me, forged a connection between my dulled and jaded adult self and the child who sprawled in
faint starlight while the great night hunters staged dramas full of hunger and death in the opaque
jet air above me. An urge to experience rather than merely record . .

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had been rekindled within me, prompting the Ihoughl , f j / I
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processes, the self-evaluation that has led to this current \ / M/ii /a /
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the same transforming magical light that had V^' - 1
favored them when I was younger. A scientific understanding of the beautifully synchronized
and articulated motion of an owl's individual feathers during flight does not impede a poetic
appreciation of the same phenomenon. Rather, the two enhance each other, a more lyrical eye

lending the cold data a romance from which it has long been divorced,
immersing myself avidly in dusty and long untouched reference books 1 came across
forgotten passages that would make me almost breathless, dreary- looking tomes that would
reveal themselves to be treasure houses of iridescent wonder. 1 rediscovered many long-lost

gems amongst the cobwebs, antique and functional stretches of descriptive prose which
nonetheless conveyed the violent and terrible essence of their subject matter effortlessly
I stumbled once more across T.A. Coward's engrossing account on an encounter with an
Eagle Owl: "In Norway ! .saw a bird that had been taken when in down from the nest, but it not

only assumed he typical terrifying attitude, but

I made frequent dashes at the wire, striking with
its feet, It puffed its feathers out, framed its head in its wings, and fired off a volley of loud cracks
from its snapping beak, but what struck me most was the scintillating flash of its great orange

eyes"
Then of course there is Hudson's accounl of the Magellanic Eagle Owl which he wounded In
'

Patagonia: 'The irides were of a bright orange color, but every time l attempted to approach the
bird they kindled into great globes of quivering yellow flame, the black pupils being surrounded

by a scintillating crimson light which threw out minute yellow sparks into the air," In long-

buried words such as the foregoing 1 caught some of the searing, apocalyptic intensity that I had
felt in that wet hospital parking lot in Maine.
Nowadays, when 1 observe some specimen of Carine noctua, 1 try to look past the fine grey

down on the toes, to see beyond the white spots arranged in neat lines, like a firework display
across its brow. Instead, I try to see the bird whose image the Greeks carved into their coins,
sitting patiently at the ear of the Goddess Pallas Athene, silently sharing her immortal wisdom.
Perhaps, instead of measuring the feathered tufts surmounting its ears, we should speculate

on what those ears may have heard. Perhaps when considering the manner in which it grips its

branch, with two toes in front and the reversible outer toe clutching from behind, we should
allow ourselves to pause for a moment, and acknowledge that these same claws must once have
drawn blood from the shoulder of Pallas.
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the sodden DEAD, DOMINATING
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HEAVEN, wheSE ONCE TERRIBLE HEARD THAT SLOT -FACE
we All LIVED and NQIGE-
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DIED, SENTENCED
,
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Eleanor Farjeon
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Thursday, October 3tst, 1985

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No, 21

FRONTIERSMAN
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HONOR THE IS LIKE

HAWK: SOMETIMES IT
MUST GO HOODED

Hector Godfrey, Editor

Util) . pride, our sense <1

with the world so enduring were

the eleventh hour,
Armageddon, it « of freedom as Pa
;
the brink of Red
should rally around the Alamo, or th,
we as a nation,
mh ,.L that are closest to the great, not. And yet. its*

beating heart of this in the dire adver

d-white-and-blue
hope and our and den
ridicule
red country. They are our
urge our people made America w
no. the legends t hat
crisis
even in times of deepest
our sense of national identity!
. .

NEW FRONTIERSMAN
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 NEW FRONTIERSMAN Thursday. October 31st. 1985

onor is like dares to tread where the wimpy and useless

Wgm WHO THE HELL DO
JfrilKY THINK THEY ARE?
any citizen who has been watching the
|g|||^stands over this last, unbearable month,
Mere can be little doubt who I am referring to.
Wn the current edition of pseudo-intellectual
f Marxist-brat rock-star monthly Nova Express,
cocaine -advocating editor DOUGLAS ROTH
makes a vitriolic and unfounded attack upon the
tradition of the masked lawman in our culture
ami attempts to stir up old prejudices and
hatreds into a bloody wave of civil disorder
It is hardly necessary for me to remind read-
ers that in a previous edition of his inflam-
matory publication, Roth had spearheaded the
cancer-smear character assassination of Dr
Manhattan- This wild and hysterical attack led
to our country^ greatest tactical asset leaving
this world for self-imposed exile upon another
Ultimately, it may lead to searing nuclear apoc-
alypse or our subjugation as a nation beneath
laws laid down by the spineless dupes and fellow
travellers in our judiciary forbid it to.
What about the Boston Tea Party? What
about the spirit of the Lone Hanger? What
about all those occasions when men have found
it necessary to go masked in order to preserve
justice above the letter of the law? Nova Ex-
press makes many sneering references to cos-
tumed heroes as direct descendants of the Ku
Klux Klan, but might I point out that despite
what some might view as their later excesses,
the Klan originally came into being because
decent people had {jerfectly reasonable fears for
the safety of their persons and belongings when
forced into proximity with people from a culture
Far less morallyadvanced.
No, the Klan were not strictly legal, but they
did work voluntarily to preserve American
culture in areas where there were very real
dangers of that culture being overrun and
mongrelized. Similarly, during our perfectly
justified retaliatory bombing of Beirut in 1979,

the cossack boot of the U.S*S,R.
Nova Express, heaping libel upon libel, has
followed up this potentially catastrophic feature
with an article in its current edition that
tempts to draw tenuous links between recent
news items involving former masked adven-
turers and work them into some wild -eyed con-
spiracy theory, apparently forgetting that most
11
of the “news items involved were generated as
u direct result of Nova Express and its irrespon-
sible scaramongering! Roth refers gloatingly in
his article to the fact that back copies of the New
Frontiersman were found in the rented apart-
ment of captured vigilante Rorschach after his
1
arrest, citing this as “proof of the aforemen-
there wen: many of our so-called fair-weather-
friend European allies who were bleating about
supposed infringements of international law.
at- Yet what are laws made for, if not to serve
mankind? And if those laws through unfore-
seen circumstance become no longer applicable,
is it not more noble to follow the course of right
and justice; to serve the spirit of the law rather
than its every dot and comma? In my book,
anyone answering that question in the negative
is someone without the moral backbone neces-
sary to call himself an American. In the case of
the Nova Express articles and their per-
petrators, 1 would go so far as to call such a
denial of lime-tested patriotic virtues as being

tioned hero’s poor character He seems to sug- most definitely A NT -American.

I

gest, with typical pothead disregard for logic,

CGKED-OUT COMMIE
C0WA*||S
that Rorschach must be bad if he reads the New
Frontiersman while simultaneously implying
,
I’vehad it up to here limc vie
that the New Frontiersman must be slightly
commie cowards, .
*
stands to ben-
disreputable if someone li ke Rorschach reads it! oursc vesj
started to ask idicu ii n g C »S
The overall effect of the piece is that of a snotty-
nosed and unsubstantiated attack not only upon
efil most from Nova
f *^L uent aubver-
American legends a •
nat j onaj morale;
this paja r and upon the individual costumed
j
undermining
sion and the on i y benefici
adventurers themselves, but also upon a whole
communism'
American institution! Who the hell do Roth and ^ause^ of°international
his cringing staff of pinko sycophants think they
Should we not XoTs fundin
Sg^jZ**~~****~ coivV

RIPPED OUT GUTS

The institution that Both and his cronies are
su casually ripping the guts out of is that of
hooded justice, of a force for righteousness that

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NEW FRONTIERSMAN
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Thursday October
.
31st. 1985 NEW FRONTIERSMAN 3

As we see if . -

NOW, I
QVVEY /
KMOW
VHERE VOU
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I WANT UFF 1

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A FAIR M DA-
ANP 2AT S r

Hr* VJPE AhD

FIGHT! ze
in
FRONT v
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THEVA
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Honor fs //fce . .
.
fconf.)

clothing that findsits way onto our newsstands

ouch week? Regular readers will know that I

have already voiced my suspicions concerning a

red hand in the denunciation ami subsequent
exile of Dr Manhattan (see A Sunday 20th
October: “Our country's protector smeared by
the Kremlin") and w ill no doubt join me in per-
ceiving this renewed assault by Nova Express
upon our traditions and values as further proof
of where that magazine's interests lie: Due
Hast* and don't you forget it

Hector Godfrey, Editor

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NEW FRONTIERSMAN
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careers and reputations behind them?

Added to this, we must consider those
prominent people in other fields, who, al-
thoughless prominent and thus less easy to
gauge numerically, have also apparently
melted into thin air during this period, I have
on record an unusually high number of disap-
pearances from amongst the scientific com-
munity, which, although consisting largely of
semi-skilled menial workers, does include
such notable names as that of Dr. Whittaker
Hirnesse, the brilliant eugenics specialist w ho
according to his wife left the family home one
evening to walk the family dog and quite sim-
ply never returned*

prommem umuvl Odder still, and quite probably entirely un-

pearanre, no less t nan lour
connected, there is the disappearance o
figures also seemingly dropped from the face fjmi
of a person after his death,
architect recorded on the
of the earth. These included radical
same week Shea’s vanishing act reached the
Norman Leith, surrealist painter Hira Man- public awareness. Parents and relatives
ish, and respected “hard” science fiction
au- of so-
called psychic and clairvoyant
thor James Trafford March. Admittedly, the Robert L)e-
schaines, attending his funeral following
circumstances in each case are wildly different the
young medium's fatal stroke, were horrified to
and seem to allow for a simple, meaningless
learn that ghoulish vandals or practical
coincidence of human destinies Man ish
, . jokers
had stolen the corpse's head from its
was apparently suffering profound difficulties body
while it lay unattended upon a mortuary
with her marriage, making her apparent slab,
I a few tenuous opinions concern
olice voiced
abandonment of her husband and two sons mg possible involvement by black magic
somewhat less than surprising, March owed tultists, but since then no further
massive debts lo the IRS, who had frozen his has evidence
depressed and come to light*
earnings, Leith was reportedly
even suicidal during the run-up to his disap-
pearance, as was fellow missing person*
avant-garde composer Line tie Paley. As rea-
Evwi discounting this
last curiosity,is there
nobody Who is prepare
sons for disappearance, these each seem indi- look into this hi-
zarre glut 0f
vidually credible enough to make any notion ol disappea L s and‘-
see what
emerges? Can it be that
conspiracy unnecessary, and yet a doubt still our increasingly shrill
and nervous judiciary
remains: Gan four such prominent people sim- are actually afraid
;

look too far under to

ply the space of half as many
demate rial ize in thi,is particular rug for fear
of what they
months, leaving such bright and promising might Imd hidden
New there? The
Frnutier‘ttmmt repeats
it warning*
enter! and Tid-
soirireH
:
PT
p nt d aw;i
u,
.vI
lnenl Americans
rom under our noses
are beingg

New frontiersman
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DANIEL?
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OUTSIDE, DANIEL
POL foe. -

THE DARKNESS OF MERE BEING

r Ova TESUS JON,U5TEN,
! THIS AOB
TE6US, TON, YOU laurie? SUPPLY,
ejDPip &AS1AB0, ABE YOU OF COURSE I'M whatever
you.,, . AL.G16WT? NOT ALBf&HT I'M IT l&. YOU
7HBOWIN6 WP YOU KETTEB WOT
KNOW I ALWAYS
HMUC THBOW UP
WHENEVER
YOU TAKE ME
WHUCH
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JOKI, PLEASE, I WHY AS* 7 YOU

/ALREADY AND YOU JUST
T OF X MEAN,, TN/S, JUST 1
’ KNOW MY SO THROUGH THE
COURSE BB/NS HERE, IT'S ' WHY X ANSWER IT'S STUPtp e*E8v x MOTIONS, ACT iNS
IT IS HERB GIVING ME DOES AAV ^
WHEW T LEFT YOU, 1HIN& IS THEM OtflT?
ON MARS PROBLEMS, OKAY ? PERCEPTION WHEN NOVA PREORDAINED.
THAT WE OF TIME EXPRESS ATTACKED EVEN MY THAT WHAT YOU
DEBATE DISTRESS k YOU YOU WERE
, RESPONSE* . ARS ? THE MOST
EARTH'S I CAN'T TAKE YOU? J suttpetseo POWERFUL THINS
DESTINY YOUR predestin- THE UNIVBRSS
IN
ation TRIP RIGHT ''why, if you AND YOU'RE JUST
. NOW. *WgW IT WOULD A PUPPET
_ HAPPEN? FOLLOWING j"

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fPUPPETS.
LAURIE.
I'M JUST A PUPPET
WHO CAN SEE
V THE &T&IMGS .,

ff,
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WE SHALL X
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if BALCONY you can
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WHAT IF I
DON'T?
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YOU TRYING* TO
V- YOU r MO. MOT > AAaAa&U OO TO ME ? WHEN
KNOW YET. BUT IN A YOU'RE LIRE TAWS
ABOUT FEW MOMENT'S I CAN'T EVEN
Mg AND wt/'ae eoiN 6 talk to YOU, let
OAM TBLU alone debate
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THE WHAT
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DESTINV
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WORLD.

DESTINY
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LISTEN, TON, OKAY, I'LL / TIME 15 SIMULTA-

PLAY IT YOUR WAY... But NEOUS, AM INTRICATELY
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YOU HAVE TO HELP ME STRUCTURE D JEWEL THAT

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FUTURE... At A TIME, WHEN
THE WHOLE &eSt&N
IS VISIBLE IN
t
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'WHAT ^
IS YOUR
EARLIEST
MEM08V?

MUM ?MY
earliest
MEMOEY?

11
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FIVE, SOMETHIN*
LIKE THAT. I MUST
HAVE 60 T WOKEN UP
THEpe was shouting,
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DOWNSTAIRS...

"my mOM AND

DAD SOD,T
CAN HEAR ,
THEM NOW
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IS
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INHAT
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GENTLENESS BULLSHIT THAT
they PROMISE
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DON'T VCTJ WDftCy
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TV ROOM IT WA£ PARR AMD NEXT THIS SNOWSTORM BALL, WITH A BLIZZARD. I KNEW tT WASN'T
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WAS U*EA WHOLE WORLD; A UNDERSTAND HOW IT FELL
WORLD INSIDE THE BALL , , SO SLOWLY
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I FIGURED inside THE BALL
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SORT OF TIMS
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THOUSAND million SPERM vie
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WE 6 ATE CONTINUALLY
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PERCEPTIONS. YET SEEN
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MEMORIES.
DREAMS,
REFLECTIONS

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January' 12, \m
VILLAINS VIE FOR
VOLUPTUOUS
VIGILANTE explaining to do to her huWy arafwtr lQO>
Goons are going ga-ga over the hack home on the ranch 4.
*

tolsst do-gooder to pull on a tight m * *

costume and jump aboard the

Meanwhile* over with the cape and- mask
masked vigilante bandwagon. Why0
fcttlh maybe itb blouse lAts cos-
crowd, lips arc buzzing and longues arc
ojined cube is a gtW! Shapely 18- wagging about cheesecake cnmc-cnishcr
Sally Jupiter. alias the SlIJi SPF<
-
jear-old redhead Sally Jupiter
(36-24-M) has taken the alluring THE. ll seems thal she and veteran vig^
and mysterious monicker of “Silk ilantc HOODED J1STICF arc some
Spectre" as she dons the shortest ihmg and seldom out ol each
of an item,
underwear yet and becomes
trther \ company Can wedding bells be Uhj
long
ibe first feisty female to join the
far away
1
you want evidence* just look
1
1
fight against felony.
whose ami our Sal is hanging onto in the
Miss Jupiter^ agent. Mr Larry
Schexnayder, says that former recently released publicity photographs ol
waitress and burlesque dancer team, Ihe
lhai tights-aml trunk clad
Silly is such a hit with the hoods Mlnulemtn. Between you and me* your
that they're practically tripping 2c Ida wonders Does he keep that hood
we r each other in the rush to get and niHise on all the lime
1

tabbed hy her! In testimony, he pro-

duced Mr. Claude Hoke of no fixed
address, currently out on parole
Snntred dancme cheek to cheek *

after Sally, who happened to be on

Und, arrested him during an at Kln£ I ay lor Produel ions
tempted liquor »Uire mbbety
*She beaL me fair and oquarv. but j
t don't hold no grudges. She's a *
j& J c*

pretty looking young woman and Pd

Jh~. -k **. u *
rather have her take me in than two
old cops anytime * says Claude,
Zft ft"
'
'f i 7
tat
whu received a tight fine and has
J tL~L ™ri,
dUT71tJk
)/
iinre quit drinking
pumping gasoline.
and taken a job
,1 pU llPJl <rU d<
Sally, who
eventually hopes to
wove on to modeling work or 'd, /W*
Bflvics, tells llh that there is already
t movie about her life in the works
(t^ railed Silk Spectre: The
p
Silly Jupiter Story'enthuses Sally
*ind uS already in the planning
stages. I-±ro and 1 have met with
'
T^^-^ri?¥?zrc
Mr King Ikylur of Hollywood, and
rverybody^ very excited about It

we
wish spunky Sal
°r~f
I'm sure all

kick in her future endeavors, and if

the above movie Acts made, who
^ aLA ajuAIL* friUvi AA£^ /

knows^ Maybe Sally will have to

4
^Y
inpuiize a spot isJ premiere /Vx- A-frjr^P

Jbr the criminal fraternity!

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MARINE LIEUTENANT
N[LS 0I. G.BBNt"

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CWSW'*"'

Gear Misa Jupiter,

Having seen you In the rma lately, I wished to Introctiee

••If, ||y n* m- is Captain Metropolia, tind I too a* ooitumed adventurer,

with * keen interest In stamping out trip* end injustlee *hif*io«¥«r

It *ould rear Ita ugly hand. X am delighted te find that you Btmr*

thea* inrllaetioaa, S
I note ill ao from py perusal of t he presa that there ere several

other people of eur perauasion stepping forward to Jolw the struggle §

serosa Aperies, end, being a military wen hj nature end career It

struck * tnst it Pi gut he e distinct atretegl* advantage If »*rf H,

to organise ourselves Into seme sort ef battalion* ready to do eur

^
country 1
a bidding at a ecpeet'a Pet la

X suggest that "'ah a

a.
group might he aslled *The Mew Minute Mem
S'*
^

America 1
and 1 nave already devised such to a* cones
Inga an and paas-^
codes ema i
,

words and strategic exercise* that would serve ui well In our war on NS \j

if yeu are interested In this pr*p«lil, pl*>M mm through

my foraar Marina LlmtWiJit Pilioi Girdxf ,

atioaa card

is enclosed.

1 look forward very sucn to hearing from you*

Yeur m a turned Cemrede la the oampaigp s gel net crl

Captalp Metrepelli /
 February 3rd, 1948
Dear Sally,
Haven’t been in touch lately because 1 thought you should
have time to get over poor Bill's funeral. However, there's things
that need talking over *

Nelly called last night, upset over yet another tiff with
H J
. , Those two are getting worse. The more they row and act like an
old married couple In public, the harder they are to cover for* I

know that you've provided a pretty steady alibi for H.J. up to now,
and that the publicity we got from that hasn’t exactly hurt you either,
but it can't last much longer Nelly $ ays he's always out when Nelly
*

calls, out with boys* and apparently there's a lot of rough stuff going
on. One of these punks only has to go to the cops with a convincing
story and some convincing bruises to back It up and it would be the
Silhouette fiasco all over again.
t honestly wonder how long it can last. Lewis is drinking
harder all the time, and has been very low since the thing with Bill.
Mason is a big bouncy boy scout, same as ever, but with Nelly and H.J.
acting up it's a pretty sorry spectacle at the meetings these days.
Maybe now is the time to pull out and cut our losses. We’ve made
quite a sum, you know, and I’ve often talked about a place out west
somewhere maybe now's the time we could take It on as a viable partner-
\

ship proposition together? Anyways, at least think It over.

With fond regards.

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PROBE PROFILE SALLY JUPITER

an interview with a forties glamour girl and the seamier side of her
crimefighting career

PROBE: Sallv. how much it was, I'm justsaying that we all its like what if, y'know? Whal if,

would you say that ils a sea knew; and we knew she wasn't moment maybe really
just for a ,
1

thing, putting on a costume) the only one, and we slung her did want mean, that .1
SALLY: No. I don't . . out just the same. When she got doesn’t excuse him, doesn't ex-
We]I let me say this, for m<\ it
n murdered like that I mean, 1 cuse cither of us, but with all that
was never a sex thing. It was a never really liked her Ursula, douht, what it is lo come to terms
money thing And think for ] Was that her real name? I didn’t with it, I can l stay angry when
some people it was a lame thing, know that. I didn't like her, but I'm so uncertain about my own
and for a liny few, God bless throwing her out We feelings , ,

em, thinkit was a goodness shouldn't have done that feel

PROBE;
I I

You’re retired now,

thing. I mean, I'm not saying it bad about that.
and seems your daughter has
wasn't a sex thing for some PROBE; On the subject of the
it

been groomed to follow m your

people, but, no, no. wouldn't I Mmutemen. jn Hoiks Masons
footsteps. Having seen the life-
say (hat’s what motivated the autobiography , .

style for yourself, how do you feel

majority SALLY; U h - o f
Here it
about that?
PROBE: 1 here was Ursula comes,
Zandl, the Silhouette . PROBE: he alleges that SALLY: Mm, That's tough I

SALLY: Uh huh. Well. you were sexually assaulted by m a lot of ways,

guess, it was me
sooner or later, okay, thals going the Comedian, who, as you who pushed Laurie, that’s my
lo come up, so let me deal with know, is still active You've never daughter, pushed her into this
that Kirs l off, I didn't like sard loo much about this incident line of work 1 know that

her as a person I mean, she was yourself .

when she's upset about something
not an easy person lo get along she always blames me for shoving
SALLY: Well why break d
her into such a weird career, hut
with. But, when the papers got lifetime's habit?
hold of it, her being a— wha! is
PROBE:
underneath somewhere, I think
it — a gay woman they say now
upon that?
You won't comment she secretly kmda likes jt. She
adays, when that happened, f likes to hitchabout it. hut what
else would she have done? Been
thought was wrong. l1
mean, I SALLY; l Look, [ don’t
Laurence, who was my first hus- a housewife? Got a job in a
bear any grudges That's all l

band. he got everybody to throw know should, everybody

bank? So she didn't have a nor-
I
tells
her out ol the group to mimmi/r me mal life What’s so great about
1

I should but look ,

I don't
the PR damage, hut .1 have to justify this, okay? Its just
normal life? Normal life slinks 1
mean. I voted along with every that nothings that simple* not
You tan ask anybody! No, no,
body else, but of course, I'm her mother, gel
, well, it even things that are simply 1

wasn't fair, Jt wasn't honest. I awful You know, rape is rape worried aboul hei But m the
mean, she wasn't the only gay and there’s no excuses lor it, ah end* l think shell see what it was
person m the Mmutemen Some I gave her. think she ll start to
I
wluteiy none, but for me, felt [

professions, don't know, they see her life next to the lives of
( . t felt like I'd contributed m
attract a certain type some way L other kids and she'll start think
that misplaced
PROBE: Who else was gay? guilt, whatever mv analyst said*
mg in terms of what I saved her
SALLY: I'm not naming any- from instead of what 1 con-
I really felt that, that I was some
body was a couple of the guys, how demned her to
It as much blame for
to
and they're both dead now, One for letting myself be his victim not PROBE: You think so?
died recently. I'm not saymg who ma physical sense, but but SALLY: I hope so.

you knou\ rape is rape and there’s no excuse for it absolutely

none hut for me, l felt l felt like I'd contributed in some nay. ” . ,

mom. umuftLH mt,

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y/tTH DAVIDS TOWN CAPTURED, He COMFORTED THE WEEPING,
WHY WOULD BRIGANDS ALLOW HYSTERICAL WOMAN, AND MY
THIS SCOUNDREL FREE PASSAGE HEART GREW COLD WAS MV
FOR HIS MIDNIGHT TRYSTS ? f WIFE COMFORTBO g EFOSE
HAD HE COLLABORATED t / HER EXECUTION, WHILE THIS "

" COLLABORATOR AND HIS

J RECOGNIZED THE MAN: A PIRATE MASTERS SHEERED 7
MONEYLENDER PROM DAVIDS -
The RIBALD 1
TOWN L A UGH IN G, HE WALKED CHUCKLING
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CEASED', report aav J ear hot
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Screaming my hatred, j
RUSHED DOWN THE NIGHT SLOPE
TOWARDS THEM, BUT ALL THAT
ESCAPED MV UPS WAS THE
BLACK LANGUAGE OF GULLS.

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THE ROCK,
MV hand
FELTHUGE
DEPORMED
STARTLED,
THEY
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EXPECT THIS
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TDOOMSDAY, LIKE T
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f SCALED THEY'LL DROP The horses watched.under- REVOLUTIONS- T MEAN,
I IT TONIGHT, OATHERfM
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k FOR TROUBLE-.. * no Ml STAKIN' a
,

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HER WINDPIPE. A BUCCANEER'S
WHORE DESERVED NO PITY l
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TREM BUNfy, BARELY SUPPORTING
ME IN THE FOAM ABOUT MV
ANKLES/two WORLDS LAY Ended
RATIONAL. SEEKING VENGEANCE,
NIGHT I TURN THIS
UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE
TO MY ADVANTAGE ? AN IDEA
, BLOSSOMED, PLAUSIBLE , s\
TEMPTING

thebe
now,weve . ^
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WORLD HOW DOES WORLD ? WE'RE JUST SAW " I RODE BACK-
K THAT rt>E A STRIKE NO WAV LEAVING a TOLD WA SOON SOON J
YOU 7 ^ JOSE y eo r a WOULD VENTURE
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GIVE “EM THE t FEAR ME... /

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This COUPLE LEFT DAVIOSTOWN

UNHINDERED, DESPITE THE PIRATE
The notion '
SENTRIES THERE MUST BE
FASCINATED me.
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AND YET TERRIBLY
—— i —m
THEY'D BE ALLOWED BACK, ALSO..
*>m
CONVENIENT.- Teo to her saddle, she
LOOKED QUITE NATURAL.
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SHOT
THIS. YOU MAY AT. PRESS GAVE
HAVE HEARD KILLER'S W/(Mf AS
AMBULANCES /SOY VICTOR
HOPEFULLY,
LUCKIER

SOMEBODY WON'T INSULT YOU BASTARDS' I BOY

KNEW ROY LEGENDAG VA OffINKS YOU SELL ME
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BOON HIRED
HIM
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^ IS THIS ? ^
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WITHOUT
don't
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WITH CASH, ONE WITH
INSTRUCTIONS T HAD TO
FIND A RELIABLE CONTRACT
HTT, &IVE HIM BOTH
NOBODY MENTIONED
VE/OT !

SOT OFFERED
the errand ey
MY tfOS5, FREI6HT
CO-ORDINATOR
AT PYRAMID
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HELL Tr

PUNNO. I TOOK
W
THE JOB, LOT OF T
OTHER SUVS
WERE SETTIN'
SOME ACTION I
FIGURE WHY NOT?
NOW EVERYBODY'S
6E TTIN RILLED,
'

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NIGHTMARE A

ALL THE OTHER Vf Mv gOSS,6UY SEE, I UNOERS TANO, YOU

FREIGHT HANDLERS T SAVE ME THE GiJYS ARE PISSED.yOUR
WHO WERE IN ON r ENVELOPE S, HE OWN PEOPLE APE THREATENED,
THIN6S. SUPPOSED TELL UNDER THAT'S UNOERS TANOA&LE
To BE ACCIDENTS , Slitr swear not ‘til t saw,
OVERDOSES.,. CHESS ON THE NEWS . 1
BULLSHIT' DIDN'T KNOW VEIDT
WAS THE CONTRACT.
'
SOME'
THINS
BOTHERING
YOU, SON

NEVER CROSS
owe o' you Wr : l knew
PEOPLE NOT W
IT! I KNEW
KNOWINGLY f YOU'D V/CT/MOE *ve
i
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WEARING A KNOT DOESN'T
M6 AW T‘M connected
WITH THAT STUFF
LAST N/GHT. LOTTA
k PEOPLE DRESS LIKE
MAN. A

PROTECT YOU ? u
UEABD THE BECAUSE YOU WERE ' HOPE
NEWS SlAmiNS UNAWARE WHOSE THAI THOUGHT
THAT MASON EXECUTION YOU WERE COMPORTS
GUY '6 MURDER ARRAN SiNE ? , YOU WHILE
ON KNOT TOPS, WAITING
thought 'Suit' MAYBE PERSON for AY TO
UKE THEY ARRANGING YOURS L. FALL
Evcas>£'. POESNT KNOW
HAGGLE U$ EITHER. NOTHING
PERSONAL, hEHN ?
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TELL ME WHO 'T KNOW,,, TELL THEM THEY'RE TAKEOUT THIS
P/D JT,V0U &HUCH,.,6AN6. .
DEAD' you KNOW ENTIRE
SLIME 'WHO KiOS SAWdtANe HOW MUCH PIRE RAT HOLE
MURDERED CUNNIN& POWER I HAVE NEIGHBORHOOD !

HOLLIS ? AWAY.., R.OATIN& OUT r ouohtta,,,

ouenTTA break
YOUR NKK,
YOU,., YOU.,

YEAH, AMO W-WE MUST HAVE MISSED

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HElL, HOLLIS MOT IMPORTANT EMOU6H
let's CM FOR REPEAT BULLETINS.
SET OUT CHRIST, TU$T SOME- SOME USE
OF WAM , LESS OLD 9UY
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THIS AND
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SUGGESTING THEIR Cl&HT MIND
IN
AT BY COULP TAKE COMFORT
FINDING MASH FROM UH ,
...

RULER, CAN
HAVE REVENGE YEAH, OKAY
FOR MASON'S THANKS, RORSCHACH
DEATH REALLY THANK YOU
MEANT TO
COMFORT
YOU
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VERT PARK DOWN HERE
WHAT IF SOMEONE "
Should discover us'?

"RELAX EVERYBODY'S
UPON DECK FOR THE
EVACUATION PARTY
ONCE THE LAST OF THE
Equipment's aboard,
THE SHIP'S READY
TO PUT OUT

HOW ABOUT YOU ?

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REALLY HA HA HA HA
‘
ENOUGH TO VANISH AWP FORGET CAPES' J"W1 CONTENT TO BE A
1

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FINALLY OFF THAT ISLAND .“
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ordinary secrecy ..

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TONIGHT
THIS PLACE AFTER ALL THESE like your swiPwaecPED
MONTHS HELL, T SAW WORM *VEAH ,.AndT KNOW WjHKTHAT VOYA&ER y DID HE ESCAPE
Lfc'ITH And LiN PA LEV UPON GEMff TfC/ST&a v, FUSUESSErtx p F//S ISLAND?"
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BRAIN MAKING THAT GOD-
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1 .HEY., FEEL
THAT * WE'RE MOVING *

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max, please, at least let me
PUT DOWN MV DRAWING
EQUIPMENT THERE HOW'S TM4T 7
.

MMM MIRA,
MEETING YOU
MAKES UP FOR
EVERYTHING
we'll FIND
SOME PLACE
TOGETHER
and ...

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- PIGGING INTO
I MY p *'
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IT IS ICAW'T WAITjJUTIL WHAT'S THAT
A HOTEL ON THE MAINLAND SOME COUNTS*? LET
AFTER years with that feiwpA MF S0E THAT.
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IMPATIENT- ^ TABPAUUH
MAX, FOR SODS ^
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ON Mg'. THE CBEW
must ws/r THIS
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WE MJ6HT NOT A
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.

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f KNOW DELIVERY
COMPANY BEHIND VEIOT 1
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MURPBR SIP ACCORDING I'D HOPED
to YOU, ALSO OWNERS OP ADRIAN Ml 6WT
DIMENSIONAL DEVELOPMENTS. HELP WITH
THUS MAYBE BEH/nO - THAT A
\ MANHATTAN FRAME.

WATS
THEIR
ANGLE?

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SELF, PRETENTIOUS CURVE LIKE ENVIRONMENTAL DECLINE ..." OBVIOUSLY NOT
EGYPTIAN TRAPPINGS, THAT IT '5 AMATEURS'- ENGINEERED
IMPRESSIVE SALES
J
EITHER HiS MULTIPLE crisis MASK RULER CAMPAIGN,
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INCOME converging WAR INTO BARGAIN
HURM NOT
MID fQDOS. ^ VERY COMPETENT. VERY ,
CAREFUL DIFFICULT
SALES CHART f OPTIMISTIC QUARRY,
WHAT IS CRISIS ARRIVES
IT DECADE EARLY
UNLESS WE
GET LEAD ON
PYRAMID ,

. DELIVERIES I

NEED
DIRECT ROUTE
TO PEOPLE
BEHIND
PYRAMID,
INDICATION
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AND JACOBI'S

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understand
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APOCALYPSE
death and
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war already IV
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WORL0- BELIEVED
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INCOMPLETE- DO HERE HR E THE
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TH 0 U 6 HT I'D
FOUND YES, I'VE FOUND STUFF,., I
SOMETHING SOMETHIN*,.. CHECK OUT PYRAMID DELIVERIES
-? THINK IT'S ON HI* COMPUTER AS PASS
ROffS-LHACH, ADRIAN WOR D I TRIED GAMES 65 :

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THE E&YPTtAM NAME FOR
IN BAD 7 ROUBLE 02 YMANQtAS.
THE PEWbOKl BEHIND
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AM I 1 DIMENSIONAL
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than the lifejacket
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we WILL
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soon .

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pa&TeR Twan '
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TRUTH ; WWaTfiVPR PR8CISe
noTURE of this cons Pi ROC Y,
THIS LOST enrpv QDRi an vbiot ResponsiBLe.
will Shortly moil
TO upnaL ro on ly
people can trust. Have pone
gesr to
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we Beuieves
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support ano nope worlp Twe shadow now
Survives Lons enouow for WITHOUT COtAPLOfTlT
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ceee FROM
COMPROMISE...
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WE DIDN'T ASK FOR aHEAD , DA ViDSTOWN
NO WAR THERE'S NO GOIN’ DOWN LAY SLEEPING, LITTLE
GODDAMN JUSTICE IN THE ORDINARY
-
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A TURTLE WITH
NO SHELL HE'S
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THE NAKED
\
MONEYLENDER
TO THE COLD
SURF, I LED
THE HORSES
FROM THE
BEACH.

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CQHPSe’S CLOTHING, SUPER 6UYS TRIED 1
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LOOKIN' OUT A RUSH .

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HUH i CRAZY ME, '
JUST A
sazette,
I ALWAYS PIN PLEASE NO
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STUFF

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LANES , J SPIEO \
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UNMOVING POEM V
OF A PIRATE
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THE LOVERS' UNUSUALLY 1
I HELD MV i EARLY RETURN FROM. THEIR
BREATH.,. Jk ASSIGNATION, THE SENTINEL
SAID NOTHING, PERHAPS
ASSUMING WE'D ARGUED.

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The womans ALINE 'S 3 spurred THE r i-iE t , V 'KNOW, FIGURATIVELY
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STUPIDLY NO FROM WORK WHINNYING , up IT
LIVING TONISHT.TO UNNERVED BY Ain't THE
COMPANION DISCUSS DEATH'S SCENT. End O'
WAS EVER SO THIN6S NOW TOWARDS THAT THE
A SEESABLE, ,
SHE'S PISS EP inevitable WORLD
'CAUSE THAT CONFRONTATION
CLASHES WITH
Ml , PALE HORSE ‘5
JOEY. WOW'S
5
MADISON
THINGS

T>£AR GOD, LET ME ...DELIVERED AT LAST

HAVE VENGEANCE, THEN INTO THE HANDS OP A
- DIE SWIFTLY... y HIGHER JUDGMENT.
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MORNING,
nae TREAD
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FROM 4 SOM OF OWE ABOUT FILE ' AND THIS PAPER SORT IMS TUNK MAIL WE COULD
,

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TOWARDS
CUFFS... j

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don't wish to
WITH
\
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BUT SHOULD PERN APS
Poll up sharply
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I'M TRYING
T'M TRYING TO
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SERIOUS LANDED . NOTH INS T HOVERStKEG THE
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you NIGHT POLICE j 6IVEN A FEW WITHIN TWENTY
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HOW BAD IS
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Angela Neuberg
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Dear Angela, , .
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our current magazine and bill

Enclosed you'll find a representative sample of
board advertising, promoting Nostalgias
adjusting her stocking being overtly erot-
The sexual imagery is obvious, the woman
models for
ambiance to avoid offense. In our choice of
1C> yet layered with enough romantic
models with a slightly androgy-
the Nostalgia ads I note that we have consistently chosen
is to afford us a window into the gay market-
nous quality to their beauty, which I presume
for Nostalgia aftershave. This is dll vel
place a tendency more pronounced in the ads
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good, but it avoids the most significant element of the Nostalgia campaign:
and
an
In the soft focus imagery and
romantic atmosphere, the advertisements conjure
that the success of the campaign is directly
me
idyllic picture of times past. It seems to
or more,
that has endured for the past forty years
1 inked to the state of global uncertainty
the future unlikely,
in an era of stress and anxiety,
when the present seems unstable and
and withdraw from reality, taking
recourse either m
the natural response is to retreat
of a half -imagined past.
fantasies of the future or in modified visions
relevant and indeed successful in a
While this marketing strategy is certainly
begin to take into account the fact that one
context of social upheaval. I feel we must
endure indefinitely. Simply put, the current cir
way or another, such conditions cannot
won t
immersed in will either lead to war, or they
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Constances out civilization finds itself that

endures contend a
plans became irrelevant, if peace * J

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necessitating a new image for Veidt cosmetics,
new surge of social optimism is likely,
eared to a new consumer. ^ ,
line
will begin to phase out the Nostalgia
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a new
though they be, and replace them with
ladies- and men's cosmetics, successful
our anticipated target group. This new line is to
that better exemplifies the spirit of
imagery associated with it will be
controversy an
be called the “Millenium- line. The
Utopia, a whole new universe of sensations
modern, projecting a vision of a technological
and pleasures that is just within reach.
launch in the summer, and would appre-
I would like the new line to be ready for
could be assembled for my perusal and comment
ciate it if some dummy ad copy and artwork
sometime before Christmas.
forward to working with you on
Anticipating your cooperation, and looking
We must have lunch soon.
one. My fondest regards to Frank.
Love

Adrian Veidt
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VIEWING IS SEEMINGLY SIMULTANEOUS INPUT
anticipated &v burroughs' ENGAGES ME LIKE THE
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subliminal hints of
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MEANINGS COALESCE
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WORLD OF EXOTICA, BEFORE REVERTING -I’.
GLIMPSED ONLY TO INCOHERENCE-
PERIPHERALLY.

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EL USIVETHESE
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PHARAOHS WAS RESTORED."

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TO DIE OFAN INFECTION, AGED TO COMPLETE AMERICA, X ME WAprNG THROUGH POWDERED

.

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MONOPOLIZED EVIL was (TSBLP
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RESEARCHING 1 Aw OPERATIVE RECO&NiZtN& VLE, *^ I STUDIED HIS
MY MASKED SOVEG^MEnT' UNEARTHING
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1

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WALLS OF WORLD FREEDOM "
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AS THE
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OF WORLD tyranny,
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problems, T'd
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.

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MORTALITY, NiZEDTUZ FRAGILITY MISSILES MAKING THE POSSIBILITY!
,

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LEST their OPPONENTS
V
Y SHOULD OVERTAKE A
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their WEAPONS, AFRAID
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,

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COMPUTERS MATHEMATICS
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a practical
solution at HAND,
what USE WAS
WOULD SF IT UP, THE BfUJTE FOWf/i
.

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TO SPEND UPON
INVOLVEMENT, SITUATION, ITTO SUDDENLY USElESS /a IMPLEMENTED ,

SICK AND the spectre of SOONER NOTICE THE

LESS, ON ACCIDENTAL OR LATER L PERILS Of the
CHILDREN
EDUCATIONS
APOCALYPSE
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ARMS EXPENDITURES BOOSTED ACCELERATED HE SOMEHOW /THIS LEFT ^
INTERNATIONAL LENDING TWI 5, Though SYMBOLIZED M AW r T POPE / TEN VEARSTQ 1
RATES. TO REPAY SOAPING LESS THAN VOU'P IfWD'S PROBLEMS Saw that '
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DEBT INTEREST. NATIONS nuclear IMAGINE ANY AS TENSIONS ROSE, &V THE LATE AMD REPUTATION
LIRE BRAZIL LEVELLED POWER Significant THE elevation seventies TO SUSTAIN! Mg
THEIR FORESTS PROVIDING POWER IMBALANCE OP COSTUMED IT WOULD
.

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GRAPE
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waste V NEED A
sesame
mandatory

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ATOMIC DEADLOCK
GUIDED US DOWN-
HILL TOWARDS
ENVIGONME MTAL
RUIN.

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m
THE SAStC- PATENT 1 r PREPARATION FOP THE
FOR PUBLIC SPARK PAY WHEN I'D ASSUME THE
HYDRANTS, t FINANCED ASPECT OF KINGLY RAMESES
DIMENSIONAL DEVELOP leaving Alexander the
MENTS WITH the adventurer and hi 5
V
.

PROCEEDS V j

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TRAPPINGS TQ GATHER
Dust ~^B
a

each STEP HAD

TO gE TAKEN
CAREFULLY,
CONSTANTLY
T THE BA&TM.
HUMAMfry
all WFVe
KNOWM ..
THE WORLD'S
PRESENT WOULD
END. ITS FUTURE
even our past
WOULD BE
CANCELLED OUR
STRUGGLE FROM
SAVE Pdf
WHOSE NAME
NI)CDM,
ADORNS A PLAOUE
etc WARD

striving TO keep IMMEASURA6LY THE PRiMAl OOZE UPON the moon, no

IN MIND THE VASTER EVERY CHILDBIRTH, HUMAN VESTIGE
ENORMOUS SCALE *EN& Of THE WOULD ALSO EVERY PERSONAL . WOULD REMATM j
OF WHAT the VANISH SACRIFICE REND-
AT o ERED MEANINGLESS,
leading only to
DOST TOSSED ON f ruins become ^
the VOID-WINDS SAND, SAND SLOWS
AWAY . ALL OUR
RICHNESS AND
color and beauty
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IF IT HAD
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HP WORLD J'D TRIE0TOSAVE
BEYOND RECALL WAS
V Anp PROM THE PECKS Agove
a cheer went up, gam gross
LOST T
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\ MUST T DWELL. - AFPRONTtNS HEAVEN /d

SNAKED F people
SEE,
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SPLUTTERING <7L/r AND
GRAggED MAKE
l CONTACT

W THAT'S WHY
THERE'S THIS
COMMOTION/
ALL THE TIME/
THIS CONFLICT
PEOPLE DON'T
CONNECT WITH
EACH OTHER

LISTENjWHEN MV ROSA MY NAME'S gERNIE ? SHORT WELL, SURE

THAT PIED,MOST OF OUR FRIENDS BERNIETM HERE FOR BERNARD ? ~ SO ? AIN'T TM BUT ...
AIN T 1

WERE HER FRIENDS THEY -

BECAUSE MV WELL I'LL &E NO ftl& DEAL, y
the STOPPED CALLING I TOOK MOM'S WORKING HORSEWHIPPED! (.OTTA PEOPLE ' WAIT A
powr THIS TO 8 TO MEET AN' MV SISTER, MV
THAT'S CALLED BERNARD MINUTE WHAT
N PEOPLE, V' KNOW ? A SHE'S OUT TOO, V NAME ! A MAN. DON'T THE HELL’S „
AND THESE SIGNIFY FOR J SOINS on...?
HYDRANTS
ARE WARM,
NOTHIN', A
^
vicwow’

SO... WHAT'S
YOUR NAME
WH A DP A YA
DOW' HERE

T
ST EYE, yen JUST LISTEN, MILO, YOU HELL ANOTHER.
'

FIGHT SOT SUSPENDER LEAVE WORK EARLY POR " THAT'S ^ MWOTE, wE'D
PULL THIS AIN'T youa AW A BEER WITH YOUR JOEY' THAT'S HAVE SEEN
a
OVER PROBLEM SOME SHIT Brother business ONE OF MV v <?ove
OTHER UNIT CAN l ain't &ONNA t psrveps,
l HANDLE it a INI A r TALK
. FlOHT... about lousy
TIMING ( a

POLICE WHPT'S
HAPPENING'* j
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AND UNPREDICTABLE to SLATER and moloch TAKIM& TELEPORTATION retaining public
EACH
STEP WAS
V
’
FIT MY PLANS, NEE DEO
BEMOV/NS THUS
CAT&P unwittingly
EXPOSED TO 1 £DWNTA6E
OP MEW
^SS/£t£,WHY
DEVELOP ELECTRIC
T Sympathy, I
G>L*lf TWO
synchro- DIMENSIONAL DEVELOP- RADIATION, THEY TECHNOlO&V, CARS ? mv YEARS BEFORE
nized MENTS HIRED HIS PAST WERE CLOSELY 7 SESEARCHEO RESEARCHES WERE THE KEENE ACT,
ASSOCIATES OBSERVED igenetics*,* VITAL LIKE My
, < CONCENTRATING
S£ CULTIVATED AS SU3 ASTif* WA£ ISLAND, SECRCTLV ON MV PLAN
WEAPONS AGAINST Aw EAftuv PURCHASED IN
AND 5uCCE»xnANO
GAVE THEM TBLBPOXT-
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v I
CONFESSION IMPLIES
"unable to unite the world sy SLAVES PENITENCE 1 "I PICTURE HIM, SWIMMING TO
ALEXANDER METHOD MURDER . MERELV REGRET W(S THE ISLAND, DAGGER IN T££T*t.
.I WOULD T&fCK IT; Pffl^HTeN It
++
you ACC DENTAL
I
PENETRATING ITS INSTALLATIONS
towards $ai nation wnH histcry's CONFESS ^ involvement A WHAT HE FOUND MUST HAVE
greatest practical jokb COMP AS A TFRPlHt.F BLOW

that^ wuat upset

T WE
WHEN AWAKENED
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UPON HtAA:

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f
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SHIP DOCKING AT AN UN-
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twat wasn't what slake
TW0U6H \ EVBN BLAKE i
r
GUIDING M/WD, TELE- "..But APPALLED* 1
BALKED AT THAT
HOW Y PORTATION! PROVED found on the island he found w EXPOSING MY RESPONS ISIL1TY,
COULD
GENETICS
LIMITED AWVTHIN 6
LIVING plED OF SHOCK
A COLLECTION OF MiSSInS ARTISTS 7
ANP-SCIENT/S TS, WORK INS upon ™
. PL AH WOULD
PRECIPITATE
TELLINS ONLY
MOLOCH
AND TELE' UPON TRANSFER, OtL A monstrous New UFf «VfM GREATER HE KNEW
PQRTATON materialized h AH HORRORS WOULDN'T j
END WAP , OCCUPIED SPACE AMD PREVENTING ^understand A
V EXPLODED.,. HUMANITY'S
SALVATION. J

r ,„but I HAD
MOlOCw'S PLACE
&U&&ED,AND I
UNDERSTOOD
. PERFECTLY/ .

AUHA
the plan blare had uncovered
was TUIS to FRIGHTEN GOVERN-
MENTS INTO CO-OP ERATION I ,
HA HA
WOULD CONVINCE THEM THAT MA ADRIAN
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EARTH FACEP IMMINENT ATTACK COME OH,

BY 8EIN&S FROM ANOTHER W0RCO WHAT,,, j

"
r'M AFRAID The
DISCOVERY RATHER
DROVE THE WIND
FROM HIS SAILS '

"SLAKE UNDERSTOOD,
\ XAHPERFECT
INTRACTABLE
> LV. too HE.

MV PLAN WOULD
KNEW
/ PROBLEM CAM ONLY BE SUCCEED .THOUGH
V
RESOLVED 6Y STEPP!*! 6 ITS SCALE
BEYOND CONVENTIONAL TERRIFIED HIM.
SOLUTIONS ALEXANDER THAT'S WHY HE
UWDERST OOP THAT, TWO TOLD NOBODY"
THOUSAND YEAH5 A SO, IT WAS TOO SIS
L JN SOROtuM J TO DISCUSS.,,

AT THE END, HE
UNDERSTOOD.

"HE UNDERSTOOD THE

PORTENTS KNEW A ,

DAZZLING TRANS-
FORMATION WAS AT
HAND FOR MANKIND

"THE BRUTAL WORLD

HE'D RBLtSHEP WOULD
SIMPLY CEASE TO BE
ITS FIERCE AND
BRAWL INS DENIZENS
BUSHINS TO JOIN
THE MASTODON IN
OBSOLESCENCE

"
rN EXTINCTION
 HITLER SAID PEOPLE
SWALLOW LIES
THIS <S EASILY, PROVIDED
CRAZ.V THEy'CE «ys ENOLI&H
WHO'D I PLANNED to build
RELIEVE MY MONS TER, TELE-
AN ALIEN PORT IT TO A CERTAIN
INVASION

W SV THEN,
f RORSCHACH'S
“I'D hired mv own killer.
THROUGH A THIRD PARTY WHEN I
neutralized
STOlfcN PSYCH-
jw 1
f
fA ASK KILLER
HUNT NEEDED
FED HIM THE CYAN/oa CAPSULE
perhaps we realized this.
,

IATRIC REPORTS STOPPING mOWN

INDICATED “ASSASSINATION*
HISMENTAL I KNEW ONLY TRIUMPH
WITHDRAWAL HIS ERRONEOUS NOTHING NOW STOOP BET WEEN ME
THE CANCER theory placed amd MY GOAL HUMANITY'S FATE
ALLEGATIONS MADE ME gEVOND RESTEP SAFELY IN MV HANDS TELEPORTATION
IT PHYSICAL j
SUSPICION UNWORKABLE

IT WORKS FINE, ASSUMING

you WANT THINGS TO
EXPLODE ON ARRIVAL

“TELEPORTED TO NSW YOUX, NX

CREATURE'S DEATH WOulD TRIS6ER
MECHANISMS WITHIN ITS
MASSIVE VRAM CLONED FROM
, SORRY, .you
A HUMAN SENSITIVE.,. HELP I KNOW this \v you
“HALF NEW YORK" V SERIOUSLY
STUFF IS BULLSHIT, PLANNED ALL
...THE RESULTANT PSYCHIC SUT I'm STILL GLAD i THIS MAD
SHOCK WAVS KILL INIS
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WE GOT HERE BEFOREE K SCIENTIST
HALF THg CITY YOU SOT DEEPER /v STUFF 7
INTO THIS MESS

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SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN ?
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Oiymondios,
king of kings:
Look on my works,
ye mighty,
and despair!

—Ozymandias
Percy

Bysshe
Shelley
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TO INTERVIEW ADRIAN VEIDT

VEIDT: "The frightening thing

about the campaign to re-elect
the president is that in the wake
of the victory in Vietnam, I don't
see how they can fail. C.R.E.E.P.
What a terrible acronym. I won-
der who coined that one? Some-
body who watched too many
‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ episodes
in the sixties Liddy, or one
. . .

of those other Washington

humanoids.”
“Humanoids.” I’m sitting talking
with a retired superhero in a glass
dome filled with tropical flowers
and hummingbirds, while outside
the antarctic wind builds snowdrifts
against the glass. I would imagine
myself beyond surprise by this
point, yet the sudden use of such an
odd term is startling. Have I detected
a hitherto unnoticed contempt for
mere humans behind that eminently
likable golden facade? Why “human-
oids”? i put this to him, and he
chuckles.

VEIDT; “I'm sorry, it's a sort of

one-man private joke. I’ve been
referring to Nixon’s close subor-
dinates as humanoids since I
heard about the banquet and . . .

this is true, I promise where

, . .

one of the presidential aides

spilled a glass of water over Vice-
President Ford. The aide was in-
credibly apologetic, obviously,
but Ford just smiled and said
'Oh, that’s okay. Nobody’s
human.’ (Laughter ) I've called
'em humanoids ever since.”
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he laughter of Adrian Veidt is deep
and rich, filled with a warmth I
hadn't anticipated as the jet hed
irrangcd towered me gently from (fit* blank white
antarctic ski/ towards the dangerously small-
me, his
sapiens fashion. He's walking towards
sm He somimdiere between *hu kie Coogan
and J.FK.. sticking out a hand that grips mine
strongly enough to make me glad it's friendly. lie
glances towards the gymnasium windows, out
look tny black hyphen of the landing strip, set into side which a blizzard seems to be commencing
the endless park in far helou The landscape was
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expected much the same of any man who'tl nia ,
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choose to live in it A
coke joke! Adrian Veidt Ozy-freakin'-man- ,

fhe plane was met at the landing strip by three ditts himself has just told me a cake joke !
enthusiastically friendly Vietnamese men who Wtmonu-ee! We fall easily into conversation from
led me between obelisks of dark marble with roll- that point on, and after he's dressed he takes me
ing purple highlights towards the fortress domi- fora four tf h is fortress, op ulejit beyond the wild-
nating the nude white reaches beyond. est of Versa illes. Wc end up in a la rge
dreams
Servants? My liberal sensibilities recoiled at sectum of the main hall whxrc one wall appears
tin* concept with ft predictable kneeprk. Later ,
to be entirely cfWeml with 7V screens, all tuned
howrv* K on learning that the men had barn Viet- to different channels. It is here that we hold our
vtrny refugees hi danger of losing their lives in interview, (tad notice his eyes gfbm drifting
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the purges following Americas victory without across the not of Hashing images os wc speak.
Vcidt s interim flow 1 wasn't so sore. Since Ant- It 's only after I e.xj) vess worries concern in ff beak-

arctica is owned hy rat nation, the men are the- ground noise and tny reeotrling equipment that
oretically s<tfefrom cxtmdition, and their nomi- he thinks to turn the sound of the multiple tele-
nal boss them more as respected
seems to treat visions down They don't seem to affect hfs con
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friends than as lackeys. Orta inly, they them central ion tii all
seines seem deliriously happy with both their bit Hcfore launching into tny interview spiel 1 ,

and that land ford take u breath and remember why Tin here. Al-
Mr Veidt has made the effort to understand
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most lost in the cacophony surrounding the old
our culture. He talks to ns of ten concerning our Tricksters Const i tut tonal amendment scam,
religions beliefs, asking many questions." The one of America's best -respected and most consis-
man who tells me this is sincere and heartfelt in tently left leaning superheroes quietly retired
his testimonial, showing an almost fat luniy pro fnnn crimefighting to pursue a career in busi-
tcctive anxiety that this magazine should not ness When this magazine phoned him to ask
m is rep resen t h is rm ployt r. why he kindly offered to fly me up to his ant-
,

“Hr not one of your pop music stars He docs

is « arctic retreat where we could tumduct the inter-
not inject drugs, or heat young women badly* view in comfort. Exhaling, l press the record
Make sure that you soy that" button and begin.
Wum we mack the fortress, Veidt is still com NOVA: So, how do you got tobe a superhero?
pi eting his daily workout in o gymnasium of Won.' your parents rich? [ mean, did that give you
cost, almost dreamlike proportions, tvhere par advantages?
dll cl hors meet at infinity. Tm cordially invited VEIDT: No more than could help. My mother lefl 1

to watch while he finishes up, and as I observe me a lot of money when she died, hut gave to I it

that perfect Swiss watch of a body twirling and charily when was seventeen. wanted to prove
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circling above me in cosy defiance of gravity, off that could accomplish anything I wanted starting
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feasibility return, myself of concern for money Consequently its
There he is, right up there above me: the man. never been a problem for me To answer your
Adrian Veidt Ozymnn whoops, tlh-uh. We . question, you get to be a superhero by believing in
don V call him that anymore, do we? The mask is the hero within you and summoning him or her
gone, but as }te Loops the high bur in slow grace- ,
forth by an act of wilt Relieving in yourself and
ful centrifuge he still wears the golden leotard, your own potential is he first step to realizing hat
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and the headband, Every y t rifriend Tee had in potential Alternatively, you could do as Jon did:
the past four years has wanted to lay this guy, fall into a nuclear reactor and hope for the best,
more than dagger, more than Springsteen or t)n the whole, think I l prefer to stick to my own
f)’tMth or any of those also-rans, and non here I 1

methods. (Laughter)
tim st/u luting up at him and yes, goddamn it, I
, , NOVA: You'll forgive me for saying so, but isn't
have to goddamned admit that he looks like a that philosophy a little Norman Vincent Peale?
goddam ned god! I ran V quite believe hell submit That self realization stuff* How exactly do you
to being interviewed by someone so obviously exploit that potential to the degree that you ob-
mired in the dreys of the gent pool as myself. viously have?
. but here he comes* dropping to th(\ floor,
.
VEIDT: The disciplines of physical exercise,
picking up the pnrfde towel that I realize later is meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The
net natty the tun ic of bis costume, ami wiping means lo attain a capability far beyond hat of the t

himself beneath the arms with it in a distinctly so called ordinary person are within reach of
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everyone, if their desire arid their will are strong much good for he world as a whole. Those evils
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enough, I have studied science, art. religion and a are just symptoms of an overall sickness of the
hundred different philosophies. Anyone eould do human spirit, and don't believe you can cure a
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as much. By applying what you learn and ordering disease by suppressing its symptoms. That whole
your thoughts in an intelligent manner it is possi ( ontac-bOfJ approach to our society's problems, I

hie to aeeomplish almost anything. Possible for despair of it, It doesn't work. Maybe as a busi-
the*Vjrdinary person ."There s a notion I’d like to nessman can do more good, on a more mean-
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see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. ingful scale,

There is no ordinary person
NOVA: What sort of world do you see it being, in
NOVA: Returning to your costumed career, why the future?
did you quit?
VEIDT: There were a number of reasons, hut 1
VEIDT: That depends upon us each and every
. , .

suppose basically it boiled down to my inc reasing one of us. Futurology interests me perhaps more
uncertainty about the role of the costumed hero in than any other single subject, and as such devote l

the seventies. What does fighting crime mean,
exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a
woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does
a great deal of time to its study. Even so, tech-
nology is progressing at an ever-accelerating
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pace, and by early next century would hesitate to
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mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite predict any limitations upon what we might be
legally, have brought about her poverty? Yes, fve capable of. would say without hesitation that a
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busted drug rings and been accused of being an new world is within our grasp, Tilled with unimag-
establishment pawn for doing so that hap-. .
inable experiences and possibilities, if only we
pened a lot in the sixties. IVe also uncovered plots want iibadly enough* Not a utopia I don't, . .

by breakaway extremist factions within the Pen believe that any species could continue to grow T

tagon for example the plot to release some un- and keep from stagnation without some adversity
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ific
. but a society with a more human basts, where
of Africa, the exposure of w hieh led to the New
p the problems that beset us are at least new
Front iersmu denouncing me as a "‘Puppet of problems.
Peking” on the strength of my youthful travels NOVA: You don't think there's a possibility we
through the East 1 guess I've just reached a point may have damaged the environment beyond re-
where I've started to wonder whether all the pair, or dial we might someday have a fatal nu-
grandstanding and fighting individual evils does clear showdown w ith the Soviets?
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NOVA EXPRESS / .July 12. 1375

VEIDT: Of course. Of course I do. I'd be ignoring doing it's having a political bias. Believe me,,,
ihe facts if I didn’t accept those things as strong you have to meet him to understand. mean, I

possibilities. As i said, it all depends on us, on which do you prefer, red ants or black ants?
whether we, individually, want Armageddon or a NOVA; Uh .? Well, I don't have any particular
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new world of fabulous, limitless potential. That’s preference , , .

, not such an obvious question as it seems. I believe VEIDT; Exactly Well, imagine how Jon feels,
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there are some people who really do want, if only Rorschach, don't know very well, I believe he's a
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subconsciously an end to the world. They want to man of great, integrity, but. he seems to see the
be spared the responsibilities of maintaining that world in very black and white, Manichean terms. I
world, to be spared the effort of imagination personally believe that to be an intellectual
needed to realize such a future. And of course, limitation.
there are other people who want very much to NOVA: And the Comedian? I understand there's
live. I see twentieth century society as a sort of no love between you. 1 heard that he beat you
lost
race between enlightenment and extinction. In in combat, back when you were just starting out . ,

one lane you have the four horsemen of the VEIDT: Yes, well, that was a case of mistaken
apocalypse . .
identity and general misunderstanding. For some
NOVA; . . . and in the other? reason ithappens a lot when costumed crime-
VEIDT: The seventh cavalry (Laughter) fighters meet, for the first time. (Laughter)

NOVA: 'hanging the subject entirely do you Lis-

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NOVA: But you and the Comedian don’t like
each other?
ten to much music? wondered what your tastes I

might be, as a superhero

VEIDT: My but you’re determined, aren't you?
. * .

(Laughs) No, we’re nol great friends. It's largely

VEIDT; I like electronic music. That’s a
super heroey thing to
likeavant-garde music in
hausen, Penderecki, Andrew Lang, Pierre Henry
Ibrry Riley is very good. Oh, and Fve heard some
interesting new music from Jamaica ... a sort of
hybrid between electronic music and reggae. It’s a
fascinating study in the new musical forms gener-
ated when a largely pre technological culture is
given access to modern recording techniques
without the technological preconceptions that
we've allowed to accumulate, limiting our vision.
It’s called dub music. You’d like it, Tm sure.
NOVA; How do you
superhero fraternity?
right-wing in contrast with your
very a political difference. He sees me as an intellec-
like, I suppose, isn't it? I tual dilettante dabbling in national affairs that
general. Cage, Stock-
don't concern me. I see him as an amoral mercen-
ary allying himself to whichever political faction
seems likely to grant him the greatest license. The
difference is as simple and as profound as that
NOVA: There’s no general sense of disillusion-
ment with your fellow crimofighters, then?
VEIDT: Not at all. Some of my dearest friends are
numbered amongst them, I wish them all nothing
but luck in the years that lie ahead,
NOVA: In closing, you’ve often been referred to in
the press as the world's smartest man. Is that true,
get on with the rest of the and does it bother you?
Some of them seem very VEIDT: No, that isn’t true, but it's very flattering
own stance. I'm and 1 don’t mind a bit. If somebody w'ants to call

thinking of Rorschach, the Comedian, Dr. me the world’s best-groomed man, then hey that’s
Manhattan . , .
okay too. (Laughs) No, no, I don't mind being the
VEIDT; Jon? Right-wing? {Laughs) If there’s one smartest man in the world. I just wish it wasn't
thing in this cosmos that that man isn't capable of this one, Q

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