Comic SUSPENSE (Part Two)

(1) "Murder Will Out."

Unsigned.

Suspense Comics Number 4, June 1944.

Vignette (1 page).

Online at Comic Book Plus (HERE; select page 25).

(Note: Minor text blemishes.)

Characters: Grimes, Laurie, and Judy.

Story: Jealousy rears its ugly head once again and there's a killing, but this time jealousy is only a smaller part of a bigger picture involving a murder plot.

(2) ". . . Moment of Reason."

Unsigned.

Suspense Comics Number 5, August 1944.

Vignette (2 pages).

Online at Comic Book Plus (HERE; select pages 24-25).

Characters: Brophy, Spaulding, two detectives, and the stranger.

Story: An employee at a large firm gets fed up with his humdrum existence and plots a way to escape, a way that could involve murder.

References: Buenos Aires (Wikipedia HERE), "pampas with gauchos and bolos" (Wikipedia HERE and HERE and Olé HERE), "the trail of the Southern Cross" (Wikipedia HERE), and the Dark Angel (Wikipedia HERE).

Resources:

- Comic SUSPENSE (Part One) is (HERE).

- A definite improvement over Charlton's Sherlock Holmes comic was Whodunit, which kicked around just about every detective fiction trope there is (HERE).

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