...The final and longest story, which seems like it might have been rejected from a then contemporary Charlton romance comic. Not much is made of the titular Inspector nor having Scotland Yard backing him up.
That story is reprinted from Fox's pre-Code one shot,
Spectacular Stories Magazine #4, featuring Sherlock Holmes. Even in the original Holmes had little to do--in one of the stories he simply narrated the captions of a generic crime story. He may as well have been "Stephen Hammish" for all the difference he made.
The Code made a bunch of changes. Illicit booze smuggling became fur smuggling and the crooks' language was softened throughout. They thoroughly overhauled the main villain's last-page demise as well as removing a couple of
"AGGHHR!"s from balloons. One odd alteration: in the last panel on story page 7, the hood says, "Be a good idea if I sat down for a while inside this cafe and calm down." In the Charlton version he says, "Be a good idea if I
sit down for a while inside this cafe and
calmed down. I guess the editor didn't like the tense mismatch of
sat/calm. But
sit/calmed doesn't match either.
