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and willowy avenger of the night...The Whisp!
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in a bind -- literally. Dixie had stumbled
upon Professor JERRIES sinister
plan to hold the city of AIX and 2g
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struggled to get away from the mechanical simian! Clunk! Clak!
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ran into the Professor he had a BEARD and seemed
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fisherman saw
this, he was sure
he was to meet with
disaster and death.

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me your pledge. Don’t betray me.”
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and when he pulled, he.
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These men are all

wanted war criminals.
Theyre pretty biq names.
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retrieve intormation
rem them?

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your passport. Hf you
can just aive me
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of your city and
offer them to him...

So I found myselt’ on a_train

to Czire to meet her.

and he will give you enough

to make you rich.” I have the
perfect agent
to send along
to Cairo.
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do today. Please...
just a break
until tomerrow.

IT have much
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you can continue
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te of your
beloved
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amusement,
nothin Ou
can a 4 “me,
sure..but® my ‘
contact...Mattie? A
She's beyond your
reach now.

ae all i
I was watchin
Mattie dance the
fast Night. ust Icke

me was
ditterent.

! Something
wasn't riaht. |

Her =
movements |
were. ;
_ strained.
Et wasn't
her normal dance.

Her hips...
 It was
communicating
one thing
to the
' gudience.

tt was
desperate.
And then... ee I understood,
a Bi ve Y ¥
ve BC) 9 my)
 extra smoke pellet |
inte the incense burner...

We didn't qo back
\ to her room.

101
But we were aone. Nee
Together. Ft tinally happened
We had escaped. I planned her...
our.,.escape to the last minute. \
Every detail accounted for. MWN \ A
‘f
WANSAaa
N

I planned ZF |
the rest ot her
escape precisely
and to the
minute.

102
 but no :
fone will
| have her
ats aqain.
 I'm pleased that that your plan to
you think your have Mattie
intormant has extracted was
escaped...
dolproot.

Perhaps I will aive

you 2 break. No
mere torture Lor you.
Instead let me
tell you a
tale...

I'll tell you the tale ot 2 plane )

I a )

you had ready to pick her up

in the desert.

t,
1
}
i
'
4
 I'll tell you the tale of the
driver you hired to take her to
the plane no questions asked...

I'll tell you the tale of a double

agent that returned to her
=a eae aye your orders
or 2 orgotten item.
And how she met our
best assassin on
the staircase,
108
109
 I have a codebook...
it's aot everything in please...
&...0N my apartment...
under the middle rug
in.a hidden area
in the floor...
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er Aea

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ae

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——
ae
py a
'
 “If you suffer injustice,-save yourself,
and leave the house behind to mourn ~
| yzats builder. ai 3 <

“Your country you'll replace by another.

But for vourself, you'll find no other self.

Are you okay?

dust ina
daze...didn't
see YOu.

“Nor with a
mission trust
another man,
- for none is as
loyal as you
yourself.
 “And did the lion
not struggle by himself, |
He would not prowl
with such a mighty mane.”

—The Arabian Nights

119
 BS“3
ayCc
haat

£ % yY Y
+ =%

120
 I really spend the days watching people. Or maybe I'm spending i
the days evaluating how and why I watch these people.
ssi a = =| oon

= / —

i to say th ) 2 ante...such 2 cliché te me. Tt is what is said

though. 1 and- ather took me to the top of the Ex Lo!
Tower. My @rar re. that was some twenty years 4qo.
a

y The most vivid memory

y I have 2 that age:
y My arandtether
taking me on the
itrain to Paris.
We must have
i stopped at
fevery 2.
§ boulanaerie
Btrom the
 rd eat ct arid when I'd tinish. et,
wed stop at the next boullangerie .
and he'd buy e.
me another.
_ Every visit
to my
arandp rents
house atter,
he'd have
a pox
those
- chocolate
animal
cookies —
ee
r me, -

) grandparents’ kitchen I 28
pott Na an ant on the ‘kitchen ae:
beet
"yee ‘
) the esa
peda
My arandmpther asks me whet I'm dona and I PSY say a oe
In So eo on the ant. I don't want to lose ct. My eyes xs
start to water and then dry out. Den't let me lose ct. I'm atraid
to blink as I track t# across the cold white tile to the back
door and out onto the back porch. He's moving ast.

3 Cane ~ so I Lulow the ant te the “back porch

2 aera edotofa tt crawls down, the side ot the
Ou ate he cant ia him mae.

“i
| re
mal a

—-Briet # my ‘-year-old ie Londen eI can run Own the oe

stairs aS t enough to meet the ant at the sidewalk, ss ie

: oad front door and stop. ae

 ‘There's another ant on the kitchen tile and he's heading to — J
the dining room. It's hard te tind the little quy over the Rersian, rug
| under the dining om table. The room cs 4 ed with grown-up leas.
m 6A black torest of trousers and stockings. I wend and wind my
| way between and areund focusing everything I ‘Ve. aot on that ant. |
yt yi f

4 Boas oe 5 Cero ees e care

The people in the dining reem are here for my randfather’ Ly :
funeral. A heart attack, I remember that. But Hs funny how —
_, that ant's journey seems so much more vivid now to me, The a
: funny thing about ants cs that they seem to move . ith so much
more purpose than these people I watch, So much taster. The |
people on the street just seem to amble along, No urgent
ee mission,
No Purpose. se
of

ds me into my grand
tram rua to hardwood to
the arain +' the
or e
wood,
ee
each sma
oe
 a ted ae the bed
ed a little in the middle trom his |
The ant came out on the other side
the: be z a an eye en ct as ct went —
IT pulled my leasaefrom under es
ach the 3 the chair.

1y on the chair. And the ant went under 5

eel the presence ot my arandtather's
strange as I touched his hat and lte 7
en a millon times and never touched. I 1
£6 being hea than Ioe ‘

A rhel it
a up I Said por ;
re aeaalinee The smell.I'd

or 2 hua. M
against aS aria:I
the rouah stubble ot
his neck and the
barber in his hat
inside rim et
; oe et.
 ch box. of anna 3
——— cookies oe! his het §
= j = SE SR ge
ie ag

& yy

p ie a.cog that lebtle 24 Tt”

pole Ha saw z ve on ‘ins nee
 oe

‘ee; ie j — A we
SEY
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you doing?! !

We have no You need to I tell you and you do

= money! \ be out to work more... ever) lesst!
: : : k Lom there! ., - k

you start
dropping
ee pants
or the
Germans?
What are Y

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YU THINK # ep De
hres YOU WANNA
GOTTA 2 GET SHIPPED
TEE
BO Foe
afe |= |
AL
MONEY.
WaaNas
HEM KBALITS
12, NEE

I hate
you
Riérre.
 = Elite ~
> German —
tanks hidden
behind
Hill 22.
Vulnerable
to attack
from the
south.
my

Send armor to attack

immediately. —
y
| The girl TT ee rom The Farm. Tes where they
neta ae ofus.
eG even sure 2 where ét is.
#
4
eee
ee
™~ Coane the
€ United States.

T SOT her eyes. Filled oa eS

er sadness.
 Sets * x “ 3 ss
Be ne :

Fone of: the tests was to

retrieve a letter without
| breaking open the envelope.
, real stumper.

os
we
cs
er

&
So

[She really lost herself in the ras! lee

oe
ake
training. am
I. quess (3 ieas

“_ fthats :

‘believe*
{too |
CON
ara
ae
Poe
Be
1*
aR RS pies!

us out of a plane over

& Europe like seeds planted
in terecan sail.

—/~ seeds take I

think, despite my
pie Pots to remain
we optimistic about
wei my chances.
ty 3 i) S A Ay) i. 3 aSvo +»
the odds gre...
 a as \
TT }i a he
b
if]d
ae
)
j
 up in this sunny ¢clear-aired werld and
it's completely dé terent.

: rad war hasn't. touched this

a part ot! the country and it
oe just seems likea
=4 ditlerent world ©
: bis Bae There are\\\ <
| no deadlines. No ~\\
4 urgency, No fies.
os | No
hone worries. No war.
fee sers :
ee

ee
sees
ome
I think ee my mission. To in¢tittrate, to tind other
contacts. Intormants. People on the inside. =

But now I find myself’ wethout

a boss. No instructions.

rom telling mysel that one perso

be makes : dhe ence to
tellona myselt that one
won't be missed. Some o
lus are at the ae
ae history and some ot us
are the scenery...
“ ees

Toh Ss
nistery
qoes
tj
by.

. So I think about the training every day.

. But every day a lettle less. I think about
how they trained us.

141
\ A Fained me to blend in. To
NYS / become part of the scenery. To
1, inaratiate myselt. To
0 become one of them.
iy)
 He'd wanted te
be a spy his
entire [ite
and new here
he wads.
His biq
opportunity.
Since he was
a kid.
ae eas
or WWI he
thought that
his chance
had passed
him up.

And as
miserable as
the next war
was there wads
a part o
him that
was elated.

He'd never
admit ct.

Probably
net even te
himcele let
alone. his wie.

His wite. One

course
412) ee Ah eS) 2)
heartbroken.
why he thought b years as 4
his dream tle clerk...
career in
esplonige
would pass
 Once in a (Letime.
They finally needed
him. A job’ only he
was suited tor
they said.
4

Dropped right inte the heart of the enemy camp. He

was a natural. They were convinced that the ene
: would be completely Bot d.

They dressed him...

outtitted him wth
his secret codes.
A weapon. A new
watch and 4
Newspaper.
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Germany Fi

We have an
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I'M HARP
as VOU
OTTA
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Mig

&
Fs
&

aso
5aS
i

paneer

ae

do this any- You're

mere. Can't gonna do. :
you see I'm what I say. sf
miserable?! You hear? Alf.
spies dre wh
 No evidence yet.
Request fake
passports for
myself and
subject to
entrap the

151 A
152
 I'm German counter I've got
intelligence but just passports for
lester! us. Me and
you..l Car...
I was
assiqned to
you but
T can....1
hwant to

lyeona in my
reports...

Help me get this bedy This uy) I'm sure

closet. You've ia was 2 test. The Brits
reall yar are watching you.
if lubbed it SS!
up this
time... some
News—
(

Ney Papers
155
 LOCATED Bey
ROOM #2
“

“i

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oS,
2
6
a
es

Which side are

you or. Tell me!
Testina us Must be
buggin’ the
place too,
eh? That
you too?
Well...

you aet.
[,

ek
Looks te
like we Nea Well, 4Pipe
Hmm. ae pus be Whe should
at ae?

ay this week.
enemy agent.

GERMAN
AGENT
LOCATED
IN BOOM
Are you sure? She's wand she's
a loose cannon pricey...
and her loyalties
; areé.,, suspect...

be ,
caretul.

. 158
 I've been.
lyena in m
reports....l ve got
passports tor us,
I was assiqned. Me and... yout
te you but I CAN WE CAV)
c4an..t want to:

4 A/f\ Ya’ shouldn't be’

Have you seen eed ae talking te that
old Mrs. Dallowag UA V/ : A i old baq anyway.
upstairs? That hag will
She's usyally blow yer cover
down tor or sure.

morning ted.

help me
clean the
closet...

™
You all right
son! I think
itis over...

Anchovy. Uh... that's

No kidding?
what they call me
Suprised they
anyway. Real name's
fet 2 colored
Anthony Vallerca. I'm
uh.. the writer
fella do that!
No offense.
of’ that Whisp
. spin-o That's 2 popular
strip, chum!
strip — you
MA know the My old lady rf
reads the
Zac) airl and the
robot? Wel|
: I..and I just
“started a
r Welt,
waetll she
hears this! /
 Welf..[ mail in the, strip and the ie
don't make much ¢uss. Not sure d Naw!
shirt. Just a torn
You should
the editers there even know whe see the other
I really am te tell you the ellas!

TE you run ct back

to the mailbag for me
I'll let you take 2 peek.
His 2 week fate...

THE ONLY COMIC

STRIP CREATED
IN THE
RONT LINES} 7m
I ask the German interrogator to reach
one of my cigarettes for me. The least
he can do really. He’s had me in his
torture cell for a week now and still
hasn't gotten it out of me.
I’m surprised really. I haven't had
any training in espionage but I can
keep my mouth shut that’s for sure.
He slips the cigarette between my
lips and even lights it for me.
What a courtesy. I'd spit in his
eye if my mouth wasn't so dry.

He yells at me one last time to talk.

I know enough now not to smile or
make a joke. It took me a few
fingernails to figure out that he
doesn’t like that.
I don’t react so he keeps
yelling and I let him. Drawing in
a deep breath of the terrible
German brand cigarette. He
shouts again and I flinch. He
wants the secret messages I
was supposed to be taking back
to England. Well, he probably c
could have had them but he took.
Muriel away. What worse could -
he do to me? -
 He had the only card he needed ia
_ make me hand over the secret
documents and he didn't even
use it. Just killed her. So I'll be
damned if he’ll get anything out
of me. And then it occurs to me.
I'll have a little fun with him.
“Sure,” I say. “T'll tell you
where the stuff is,” as I kill time. |
Suddenly his eyes light up and
I almost laugh.

Almost.
So then I start to talk. I
tell him everything. And as I
tell him I watch his eyes. I see
them turn from bright to dark
and angry and then I do laugh.
I let the cigarette butt drop
from my mouth and close my
eyes and wait for the last word
Tll ever hear.

Fire.

j My last words describe Muriel.

Muriel and I in occupied France
and it was perfect. I met her at a
café and we both knew it was right.

In one night we found out everything

about. each other and I found out
she was part of the French
Resistance. I didn’t care either
way but I was sick of smoking
the terrible German.
cigarettes so I was on her side.
I wasn’t complicated and neither were we. Most of the
time we spent was trying to drown out the sounds
of the war by watching jazz bands at The Hole
and listening to records. She didn’t talk
much about. her work and I didn’t ask.
She didn’t involve me except
the one time. She wanted me to carry
some secret papers to England with a
fake passport. Sure. I'd -be back in a
couple weeks and we'd continue.
Until the Nazi’s men broke our
door in.

Yes. She asked me to take the coded

messages and I did. But where to hide
them? Wouldn’t I be searched if I was
caught and executed as a spy?
And the messages discovered? She
already had it planned out.

The secret messages rolled around an awful

German cigarette. Who really smoked those
anyway? And who would ask to bum
one from me if they saw me carrying the
pack? It was foolproof.

The cigarette butt falls from

my mouth as the firing squad -
opens fire.
We need to find this Sharlenk. Supposedly
the best assassin and operative in Europe.
However we don't know how to contact her
as she seems to be very slippery. She has
loyalty to no nation. She has worked with
Germans, Italians, Americans and British.
She has yet to work Lr the Russians
and we
need
her.

: x So, I'm leaving ct te you to

There is a German sniper contdck. ihe tha” calves
working our front lines ;
\‘ this Ge e care
rman taken
and none our agents can
ind him.

Sharlink's methods are inscrutable.

She is an eniqma to our intelligence
section. Everything we and every other
alltced government has on her is in this
tile. And Fi be rank wéth you. Your
chances aren't good, The last two
agents we had contact her
ended up dead. And we're
 Et was
| pretocel 1 | aeFe \ followed to Zeni see
notEDollowed? eg «the letter. | the hfe...2

suspect she
harbors

resentment
towards
the Busséan
government... 4
ae so please
So 7mheels fy %

— aloud &
: youd [cke.

¥
Yes, ee
ey rs
ba tee Nees y

I was on the front you

know? Just a grunt —
doing what I was told
when we found the...
well, when we Bilge
found the body.

Not a body so much

but kind of, uh, pee
A leg. An arm.
And a uh, torso.
a
 ~ e Romres anes WR AEN ea
5 Rs ae Sees
eee

I didn’t find it. No. Just heard about

it from the Lieutenant. It was in the
| aptain’s-quarters. Can you believe it?
The oe ase-bed someone said, but
pois battle- ready
battalion, through
_the Captain’s
ersonal guard and
ied these...pieces
to his room
him all cut up, Well,
apparently she doesn’t
believe in paper and ©
pencil or radio and :
telegraph.
She cut a
message into this
body.

Parts of it on the
torso, some on the ©
leg and a little bit
| on the arm.

Took thecr ota pales a week to Yeah. Not the shortest message. You
cue decipher |
the code, even. Well. know? Usually you're writing in code
: ane that
en rage: = you want to keep it short. To the point.
%
Less encoding and less decoding. Not
her. No. Took her a body and an arm
and a leg to encrypt that message.
= ‘anyway. spares
Ir Never seen anything like = __
ee se 2: it. Well, that’s what I
heard anyway. But
the Captain
was gone a week .
The message was after that; that’s
in code. And it for sure. No one
was a long one. seen him
Over 100 since.
characters long.

= ioe
; . 5 : ; . . ae bee

The message? Oh yeah. a A

_ Found out later froma ae eee ae
paddy of mine what 5 = ese a
it said... “I’ve discovered_ oe. ce ae
the traitor. It is the Captain. a — rseee Se
‘Mission accomplished. I |is a eesSsaniien
ee %

— Pye immediately.” oe oe oe
So I walk into the Café. It’s our
rendezvous point. Every last
Wednesday. of the month at noon.
So Francois walks in — what? Yeah.
Francois, I know. Anyway, he walks in :
like normal but something's wrong, I can
see it in his eyes. He doesn’t say
anything and I know something
is terribly wrong. But he sits down
and I think, well, it’s not urgent.

Whatever it is we can figure it out. Is

his cover blown? Well, we can get him
out. There’s always time. We can move
on it. We'd been setting up the resistance
in Paris since Poland, you knew? We
saw it coming and we were ready.
Ready for anything.

Well, he looks at me and it looks like

he’s about to cry. “What is it?”I say.
But I can tell he is having trouble
talking. I ask him if he was caught and
he says “not really, I don’t know’? And I
know he’s been compromised and then I
just want to get out of there.

But I wait a minute. He’s my friend.

We were in it from the beginning.
Then he tells me he’s not sure what
happened. He went to sleep at the
safe house and then woke up ina
basement room tied up. He was
expecting to be tortured or killed but
he wasn’t. He saw nothing — just
shadows on the wall. A woman he
thought because of the hair. Long
dark hair. Unusually long hair.
Anyway, he blacked
out or maybe
chloroform. He .
couldn’t tell. But
he woke up in
an alleyway
in pain.
 eae Tae ee igTea t
5 2 ‘ z
Be ie
%

He pulled up his shirt and saw about

__50 or 60 stitches in his belly. He
wasn’t sure what day it was but
went back to the safe house and
realized it was Wednesday. Our
meeting day. He had just enough
time to get there and so there we
were. “What happened? Whattaya
make of that?” he asked me with
tears in his eyes. He was desperate. _

At this point I’m looking —

around and realizing that ’'m—
sure he’s compromised and now
I probably am too. That’s when -
T notice it. On his neck nearly
hidden by his collar. “What is
that?” I ask. “What?” he says.
On his neck. He pulls his collar
back and I see a tiny red scar
on his neck, Just about the ~
size of a franc. A fresh sear,
like somebody just took a
pin and seraped into his skin.
It was an “S”, It took a second
for itto register. dust a second.
Re eo
Re area ne
wes es
ee hee

An § carved onto The Germans: Shek me in for

his neck? He questioning and drove me by.
looked atme and — - the café after I'd recovered. ©
felt his neck and I The bombin Francois’ ee
knew it was over. took out th whole café,I
I got up and started . ended up -
to walk away. Trying not oe glass ir
*~ to panic. I got to the door
when he doubled over in pain
clutching his stomach. And he
screamed, 1 . recovered
_ figure out
That’s all I remember. ‘FrancoisBee

an T ended |
upfii pping id
The Germans had me. '
-outa I do? That’ all.

ea ae!
at eee
Y
-Had no idea it was her. Just another in a line of women that the
higher-ups would send me. I guess she got what she wanted.
Should have been more cautious I guess.

I remember the scar though. A thick ugly scar from the corner of her
mouth up to her temple. She hid it well, the hair cut in just a way where
you couldn’t see it unless you really looked. I asked her where she got it.
“Shark bite,” she said. That was it. I think I langhed. Don’t think she
liked that but the way she said it, it just seemed ridiculous.

But when a woman comes in that’s supposedly recommended by

the Fihrer...I don’t know. You just don’t ask that many questions.
Anyway, it was one night. She came in and that was it. Gone in
the morning.

Guess she didn’t think it was funny. Woke up the next morning with her
on top of me. Took my eyes out. I still wonder if maybe it was ordered
from higher up. But who knows?
The war’s over for me. That’s it.

Lit
 The scar? Yes. I remember her.
Came in for café all the time
but never drank it. Ordered
_ and left. Always tried to chat
| but she was really quiet.
Put out, I'd say. Told me
| the scar was from a bullet wound.

T heard it was from

being tortured in Siberia...

..touched by devils...at birth...

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For what he |\;
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/
motivated by .
ar and But motivated
theyre right. to one purpose. Revenge.

Kn : :
The torst woman te swim i durina 42 war, =<
edrrying J secret message will be me. :
 22 hours until I
reach the shore.

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192
Hans Ferdinand was
selected because of his
superior piloting skills. |

His courage
under fire is
without equal.
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4 safle il e Pee sci

| He holds record kills and |

| has never lost a plane.

His commitment to
the Reich is without
question. He is discreet
and trustworthy.

[
3) He will lay down his
ce
life for the mission
and for the Reich.
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headquarters at
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The old man in the straw

hat decided to take his beloved
pet Polly to the beach one day.

Polly was so excited she couldn't

help but flap her wings all
the way there.

Polly and the old man had a wonderful time.

Polly learned how
to play catch!

The old man played a trick on

Polly and buried her in the sand
all the way up to her beak!

Then he ran off to play with his.

girlfriend, Betsy.

Poor Polly was

all alone.

gle
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All alone, Polly decided to make some friends. She took all of the
sandwiches out of the old man’s picnic basket and shared them
with the sandpipers.

Sandpipers love peanut butter nid jelly!

we

When the old man got back he

was shocked! All of the
food was gone and the picnic
was ruined!

Suddenly, a large waved crashed onto shore— " :

and pulled the old man with the straw hat’ a a
to sea!

Polly flew after him bot”

aQ didn’t know what to do.
47
But before she knew it,
‘Polly’s new friends, the
sandpipers, flocked together and
pulled the old man
out of the drink!

Polly was certainly

happy to have made
those new friends!

And so was
the old man!

Back on the beach, the old man

apologized to Polly for leaving her alone.

Losing the food from the picnic o>

was certainly much better than :
being lost at sea!

Polly and the sandpipers

all laughed!
 off to
ere)<= Qs
4 = Uj ‘<<it} +
Y
 yelled
“All aboard!”

Polly had never been on

a train, let alone a dining car!
She had a wonderful
=~ dinner of birdseed
a " served on fine china
and enjoyed
ree y | ee the scenery out
the open window!
ra

She desperately flapped her wings

: to try and get back to her best
friend, the old man with the straw hat.
 “The train conductor and the
old man bravely climbed on top of
the racing train to rescue Polly!

Polly couldn't help but think that

maybe birds shouldn't
be riding on trains.

2
#

But soon the old

man had Polly safe
inside their sleeper
compartment and Polly
felt better. The old man
always made her feel better
and eased her fears.

Sleeping on the train was the

most fun Polly had ever had!

The next morning Polly was

served breakfast in bed! A
gourmet pile of birdseed served
on fine china!

Polly would remember this trip

for 2 long time! And she would
also remember to stay away
from open windows on high-
speed trains!
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Bay. I know how
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a Hepes

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don’t have
the courage.
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torture others,
Now myself.
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conscience he
will suffer
for his
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punishment-
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prison.”
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the life left me at that moment.

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/ J and resentment
* and will that
I've ever felt...
DiUCianebucbeaters |
out of me...

And all
that hate...

and will...

filled
up in
her_eyes.
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move and I don’t
say anything...

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appears in the with two world- — af
middle of the famous snipers
battle for running
_ Stalingrad. around
looking for
targets.

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surprised.

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shocked.

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Before she can beerwthing:
even say anything
it all pours out.
Everything.

And she asks

Everything I’ve UPI Ahb
been thinking and interrogator
feeling from the first is
time I saw her.
And I tell
her everything.

He was
a German
spy.

‘I listened as he tapped out some sort of

message. Something about radio-
controlled V-2 rockets on an island
a ee or under a
j
1 mountain or
something.

' They called him

back to Germany
apparently.

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him again.
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expecting her to = Rp snipers aren't just —/f
end it all. And I wonder “ik firing away at
, a) her as-she
Mee we Z, \ strolls away.

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2 io lane in hell. ey : = Fs e ; 2

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rifles on her back a

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That's why youre here,

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look. And I know
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second
yesterday.

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ou were
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me and f\
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anyway, but [ was sure they'd sending him te clean up atter
send .Hane . me when I : “%
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come | But you? Hal What do I care
ee about you?
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and my apartment riaged
i to take Hane out since I
i... arrived in London.
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You. know I swam across the .
know you. So now I'm just... |
I'm just at a loss, Enalish Channel te \
" aet here? oT tens

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killed my tamily.
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to motivate me *
at that point. jf
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want out. To
make it stop,

at
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understand that?

My dauahter....

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Lm only breathing te
kell this ‘man...
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agent...

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Thanks tor makina
I'm sure you're just ainless anywdu.
p Spier
doing your je.

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to pay you with. But c' you
see him..I don't know..2
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chasing him.. Something
about reckets?

The man is all I want.

The rest deesnt concern
me. Tell me new and I
won't open up
your, Qquts-
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dad? I'm
just an
enaineer.

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that woman
was just fs
recrutt...

me wha! | You
. have | ‘ane
I'll trade you
i wet E
know about
Black Maaic. |

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the weapon?
TERROR alive you
anything tor that
intelliqence...

you've
to trust
me...
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Hes ttle has run dcross
my desk in the past...
IT didn't know he
was in Londen at all.
I swear I have ne
idea where he
is now AE 3

7 I'm sure you

would: So tell me
what you know.
Where cs Hane?
Are the rockets
here? Is he in
Lenden?

Black Maaic.
We havent
heard about
that. Where's
is intel
rom.

was help
but...

EB you aive me
all you have..we can
really help you
out. Anything
you want...

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when I’m given one.

Kind of makes
it easier knowing
though.

“There isn’t a day that goes by that

G I don’t think about dying. Or sending
someone else over.

This girl’s a rookie.

Faster than me
but there’s at
least three ways
I could kill
her that she
hasn’t even
heard of.

This guy I'd probably \

just let go. Doesn't
have the heart to ,
be a threat.

If he ends up
landing at
his target
he won't
last long.
 These $ They're probably
hands... i better off out of
this world...

Even when!
forget...my
hands remember
everything...

I close my eyes and I

can still see everything
they've done.
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it's:my turn

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to see a coming.

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over 3 aba
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German Intelligence headquarters...

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my first inkling that
something is wrong.

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on the way up the back stairs.

find inside
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want.
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see her on
the ledge, I A better
see myself. version of
& s ‘f
me, a]

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that I
see death 4.
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Sharlink“the Shark’

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the rumors.
about her.

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ledge...

just like
the line
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complacency,
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action ‘

Pl: ust felt

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matter of weighing start takin
the tinal outcome some responsibiléty.
based on
inaction and
action,
Leture.

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weiah the
outcomes?

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began Leek
fcke I shoul
start taking

Code-breaking
headquarters: London |
 & This is tt. Black Maaic.

The German atom bomb

program, Location and
schematics, Everything.

The resistance might

have just turned the
tide of'-the war.

Congratulations, You
two have dene a
reat service to
naland...

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Alan. My best agent, Level-
headed and competent.

He had the mind of a

scientist but really just
wanted adventure. Travel.
Love.

His death ended up being

meaningless. We threw him
away on nothing;

Richard. The “Pipe Man”.

Psychopathic really.
Without the war I’m sure
Scotland Yard would be
hunting him down.

Cold-blooded. Also
our best assassin. But not
the best. Killed by the
freelance agent,
Sharlink “the Shark”.

Elle. Alan thought the world

of you. You might have even
been a better agent than him.

But reluctant.
And ultimately
too haunted
to be of any
use to us,

Useless after
Alan’s death.
 Matt...a mess of an agent. But ultimately
ended up doing some good.

Another agent I ended up sending to his

death. But if not in Cairo, somewhere
else. He cared too much. -

Never get involved.

Merkel. The only enigma

of all the agents I’ve
handled.

What happened? Defected?

Dead? Impeccably trained
and a perfect background
for espionage.

But ultimately he’s too good.

Too much potential to just
hope he doesn’t come back
into play on the wrong side.

Nihari
f ee ee
 Did you
] land in Spain?
 ——_

How many
agents have I
A lost?
* Tm..P'm just
 ‘see Jaggi And don\t y
worry. I dont want any part '
of BLACK MAGIC or your operation jf
 apartment.
¥ a
in London... —
a
 The apartment is
immaculate.
- Bought for a song
after the war. It
needed fixing up
after taking
_ geveral near hits
’ from German
bombs. Dust
ee
everywhere.
Mah

Buus
//

- Somehow it It will be
| survived. years
Unscathed, A before the But for
few scars here underlying now,
and there. structure every-
Some deeper can be thing
cracks proved looks
painstakingly impec-
patched over. cable.
 The biggest mission of.
the war that no one
would hear about.

er really happened. |
pees
There's no paper §
:
Ni it did. All of it. | | record.No —
ee ae ‘| 7 onetotell
the story.
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Spy.”
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on
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is @o gsccwee
se
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Paee
 The Boss thinks this
will be our last mission My gut. It doesn’t want it to stop.
\ of the war. Part of I’m addicted to the lying.
», me hopes he’s right
but another part...

The puns. The action The What will I do if the war ends?
adrenaline. My body, my | What's left for me?
mind. Everything at its |
peak and at the most
important time in.
elussotebeumercine)
aie

At the Farm. Where they

train all of the British
agents...

Do you
know
what they
call me?
Super Spy.

i \
' ar i NM to
AC Z
The Grey Sparrow
is needed at .
the nest.

Gathering up the best

of the agents at my disposal.
-~

“Did you see the...

GREEN COMET...pass
through the sky
fast night?
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g about atom bombs in Norway.

up. really sweated the details.

This stuff is in my guts. Instinct is what I operate on. The lesser agents...
~- the dead agents. They overthought everything.

n the rain comes down,

£6 ont think 31
it doesn’t think about
where it lands.
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ng gi
Explosive

Boot
Camera eka

ie buammcomeltionte
the team. es 5
5 : It'll just
with my standard _ Bee ae
4 See muddy their
issue equipment : =
but t en : s waters.

decide against it.

Every gadget
is just an
extension of
my body at
this point.

We all get the same gear but I

za : look around. The team. We take the
Sees ship and we eyeball the
3-man sul
 ny eye _ But I dont. I
as ve7 “. want them to
ee
Yih,a ais ~ 5
Tconsider . Wa
calming then (me roe (1 A ete ie ce
down. Letting : ‘
them know who

When it’s all

over, they'll
arene wianyaere)
mae
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Apparently based on one ot the
nutty ideas I put inte one ot
my comicG strips
C, 2 couple
q if years igo.
r

and
+) avy
Super r Spy .
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z
Every St
The keyword

‘word is a h oe
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io cs_ rina .
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d, E werd in th
A ae ae. then every Sth ax
e

You nave

Wonder ef L'll
Il had 2 couple
qet story
to make any -
“more strips.
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Icke we're
golden |
use 5

Bet you
never had a
suicide mission,
ee
I start the
morning with her.
 ae,

We cook, we play.
We eat. We nap.
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airl és a |
outside ff a
with her ¥ ( NGA
i Grand- Bf] t
' mother Ne | ny and I
AN SF fe 8 her
eae (aa, laughing
Bh, across
ny ‘ the
, i | courtyard.
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axe on oood. Krist
obo ther and the tire
weth his buddy trom
_the ‘house across the

' The dry smell. in tne”air.

Her dad is in the et
i i: eae ite down back
Over that Lreld ts the
tree that caught me.
That kept me here.
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_ Babbling
I don\'t think
ZS

I've ever heard in my Ie ‘e, Alleei

“Kept me Ns ths.
what 8 almost was,
oa these sounds. oe
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heel hg
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SS
U
The, training: The instine
re self-preservation. oa

| So ps don't feel the -—

AG first bullet ae through
“my cheek. —<
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cone land in
a tree next
st
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: Ee
ac neDeect te2 comes eeee. foe
back, We run th
om the caurtyare
it oe to

ae

eee
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where to go. I was atraid I
BS wouldn't be able to juhe
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