Tuesday, April 9, 2024

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 492: THE BLUE DEATH KILLER

(Big Shot Comics 006, 1940)


Someone is killing old policemen! And furthermore, they're doing it in such a way that their skin is tinted blue as they die! Unsurprisingly, this ends up being called the Blue Death. But Who is administering it, and why?


It's a short story, so we find out pretty quickly that the culprit is one Doctor Swanson and he's getting revenge on the eight police officers who arrested him twenty-three years earlier, using special arsenic/ phosphorous/ radium darts. What was he arrested for? What is he a doctor of? These questions are not answered before he is killed in a shootout with gunslinging District Attorney Tom Kerry.


Spotlight On: the article on Swanson's initial arrest including the partial text "... throat cut... eyes... gouged out... tongue... pulled out..." It really was a heck of an arrest.

JUDGE AND JURY ARRESTING OFFICER REVENGE KILLING SCORE: 3/8

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