"About Two Hundred Yards Away He Saw a Puff of Smoke Between Two Pine Trees"

REVENGE invades the comics with . . .

"The Hunter."

By Earl(e) Basinsky (1921-63; Wikipedia HERE and Mystery*File HERE).

First appearance: Don Fortune Magazine, November 1946.

Short short short story (2 pages).

Online at Comic Book Plus (HERE; select pages 36-37).

   "The forest would conquer. But best of all, he could tear down the fence, that hateful barrier to his freedom."

FORGETTING something important is merely an inconvenience, but forgetting something of vital importance just might get you killed . . . 

Main characters:

~ Lester Hacket ("lay on his stomach, sighting down the shiny barrel of his rifle") and Devers ("appeared at the corner of the cabin").

Typo: "with hard figures" [fingers].

Resources:

- Our author also wrote another story for the same issue of Don Fortune Magazine, "Knife Act" (HERE; select pages 23-26).

- The FictionMags thumbnail about Earle Basinsky, a protégé of Mickey Spillane: "Born in Vicksburg, Miss.; served in USAF in WWII; then lived for a time in Brooklyn where he wrote with Mickey Spillane, before returning to Vicksburg to enter his father’s printing business."

- And the FictionMags list (ss = short story; na = novella):

  "Killer’s Choice," (ss) Vic Verity, May 1946

  "The Broken Window," (ss) Manhunt, February 1957

  "The Prison Break," (na) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, October 1957

  "Decision," (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine, March 1958.

The bottom line:

Unless otherwise noted, all bibliographical data are derived from The FictionMags Index created by William G. Contento & edited by Phil Stephensen-Payne.

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