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Next to "Vampire Flies" , "Demon Flies" ranks right up there with some of my all-time favorites whether I first saw them in EERIE Pubs or HARVEY .

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Very nice collection of stories under one cover here! All were a well written& illustrated fun read.

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE:  A Spool There Was
Down To The WIRE   (5 of 10)

An agent who has stolen important secret info was caught & killed, but not before hiding it in such a way that the police of that country has been unable to find it, despite an intensive and still-ongoing search. Dan's mission is to retrieve it, and he decides to send Rollin & Cinnamon on their own to do so.

Richard Devon (MAGNUM FORCE) is "Inspector Gulik", the angry, hard-nosed officer in charge of the search, who at one point decides to bring in an entirely-new group of officers to search the area with fresh eyes. He and his men are increasingly-suspicious of everyone, including the "Armenian" recently hired at the fishing shack, and the glamorous American fashion model & photographer who is repeatedly asked for her permits, papers, and explanations for what she's photographing and why.

The most interesting part of this episode may be the hour-long audio recording made by Rollin & Cinnamon portraying two people who have been romantically involved in the past and seem to be starting up again. This is played while the police are bugging her apartment and listening to every word said there, while Rollin is actually out looking for the info, which was apparently recorded on a wire reel, as he also tries to avoid getting caught or shot by the police. From the start on this series, there was always an undercurrent of Rollin flirting with Cinnamon, but in this episode, one gets the impression that he's been getting further with her the more time goes on.

Another subplot involves a different set of agents from some other unspecified country, who are also trying to get their hands on the info. This gives Rollin a chance to show off that in addition to his other skills, he's also quite good at hand-to-hand fighting.

Ben Astar ("The Moldavian Prime Minster" on BATMAN) is the angry "Diplomat" ordering Gulik around, and the one who recognizes that the voices on the recording they wind up finding do not belong to the people they should.

Michael Shea (brother of the more-famous Eric and Christopher) is "Pieter Stakovar", the young boy who unknowingly picks up the wire to use as his fishing line.

This was the 2nd episode so far where Steven Hill only appeared at the beginning, but the first to not feature either Greg Morris or Peter Lupus!

Hell, I'm  Australian and I'm sure that if I talked Baseball with an American, I'd be out of my league.

Pun intended or not? 

It is odd that she had to learn their language before she could teach them English. Given how advanced the planet supposedly was it's odd they would need an earthling to teach them English. Couldn't their scientists have studied radio and TV broadcasts to learn English, and other languages? 

As a TESOL teacher > no if's not essential to learn the other language, except if you are going into their country to teach, you will need it from the time you step off the plane. It certainly helps you to understand the mindset. Other languages often mean another way of thinking.
Radio ? If there are no visual cues, that would just be noise, so no help there.
TV would help but - if you were picking them up from space, you'd get world broadcasts. Would you really understand you were listening  to many languages? What if they had no concept of comedy, and they certainly would have no viable references.
How would they decipher - and here's just a few - The Addams family, Bugs Bunny, Anime, Monty Python, The Batman TV show or -hell- Friends or Seinfeld? Baseball?  Hell, I'm  Australian and I'm sure that if I talked Baseball with an American, I'd be out of my league.     
The idea of running into an alien race who picked up the language from listening to TV broadcasts is just Science fiction shorthand.   
cheers!     

I'm hoping to be able to scan 'The Angel Brigade', which may shed light on what the Green Skeleton really is.

I know that issue 3 was reprinted in a second Green Skelton #1.

There are two other Green Skeleton reprints - an unknown issue was reprinted in 'Giantsize Adventure Comic' #2, and another unknown issue was reprinted in the UK in 'Wonder Comic Annual'.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to those three reprints.

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The Crimson Comet #13

Crimson Comet story

Not bad.

I did wonder why the author used Neput which is similar to Neptune. What are the names of the nearby planets they conquered? Pulot? Unaro? Naturos? Jetapur? 

It is odd that she had to learn their language before she could teach them English. Given how advanced the planet supposedly was it's odd they would need an earthling to teach them English. Couldn't their scientists have studied radio and TV broadcasts to learn English, and other languages?

The height of the invaders seems off, some panels indicate they are around half the size of a human, but its also stated that they are 7 inches high, as if the artist didn't really work out how big he should draw them in the different panels.

Was that supposed to be President Truman?

So was all of Neput destroyed by one hydrogen bomb, or just the main city?


Fearless Ferdie in Hollywood

Okay, but nothing special.

Great idea, SuperScrounge. I sort of did that with the comparison of the Australian and American Catman a while ago

I had forgotten the Catman comparison, which is odd since I don't think it was that long ago.

And extra Brownie points (or is it Cub Scout points?) for reading the origin story. That's going above and beyond.

Well, having the name Bikini and the Captain Marvel style power made me wonder what his backstory and powers were. So I looked.

I think in the US Brownies were the group for young girls, while Cub Scouts were for young boys. Not sure if they were run by the older skewing Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts groups. I didn't belong to any of them, although I was in 4-H and participated in a few county & state fairs through the years.

Quite odd. Disappointing., Takes 17 pages for the 'Green Skeleton' to appear and then with absolutely no explanation.
But thanks Dan.

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There is actually a Sam J Glantzman story in this book. That rates it as far as I'm concerned.
He did a number of stories for this title.

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