(Pep Comics 001, 1940)
Inspector Bentley of Scotland Yard is an investigator with the same case profile as the Scooby-Doo Gang: he regularly encounters the supernatural in the course of his job and day-to-day life and just as regularly exposes them as guys in masks and so forth.
In this case, Bentley is taking his evening constitutional when he interrupts an honest-to-goodness werewolf attack! He even breaks his signature weapon, his cane on the thing's head!
Taking the victim - Brenda Joyce - home, Bentley meets her godfather/guardian, Sir Rupert Napier, and learns from Brenda's own occult library that the creature he had faced was the fabled Mayfair Monster, a local legend presumably from before Mayfair became an upper class neighbourhood of London.
Bentley's suspicious are raised by some squirrely behaviour on Sir Rupert's part and he engages in a bit of subterfuge whereby the "Brenda Joyce" sent home to convalesce is in fact Bentley in a wig. Sure enough, the Mayfair Monster makes a repeat appearance in Brenda's bedroom that night and is swiftly subdued and unmasked.
It's certainly a convoluted way to murder your own ward for her money - I suppose the idea was to establish the existence of the werewolf with the very public first attack so as to have a ready-made suspect for the eventual murder. But why wear a monocle under an iron wolf mask?
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