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[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Halloween week (true cime)

From Journey into Mystery #2



Art by the great Gil Kane.















...and it's downhill from there !!

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[robogeek.insanejournal.com]

I remember this short story!

It was reprinted in a Ripper-themed anthology (called merely RIPPER) back in 1988. Never knew it was made into a comic....

[citygod.insanejournal.com]

Interesting indicia on the first page: never heard of "Magazine Management Co." before. It was a subsidiary of Marvel?

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

By accident (I think) they made a strange little time-slip adapting this story.

"Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" was published in 1943 (even says so in the first scan); the last murder attributed to Saucy Jack was 1891 (and disputed-- the ones they know for sure were in 1888). The original story kept the roughly 50-year gap, and it was Sir Guy's mother that was killed, not his girlfriend (which makes sense, if he's a passing-middle-aged fellow in 1943). Bumping it up to the then-current 1972, while
allowing Kane to draw some nice modish fashions, really makes things weird, unless Sir Guy was implying that his girlfriend's death was a murder that actually should be attributed to the Ripper rather than just a languishing cold case.

I'm picking nits, though; the story's well-laid out and nicely drawn.

Robert Bloch had something of a Ripper fetish, BTW: you can read about the stories he did about ol' Jacky at http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-bloch.html. (Star Trek fans will remember "Wolf in the Fold".)

[wizardru.insanejournal.com]

So I'm curious....how is Jack so young? Is he some sort of supernatural vampire, like Sir Guy suggests?

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Yes, that is the idea of the story.The ripper just jumps from body to body to escape and start over again.

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

That was one of the strangest storie of the old Trek'. I didn't know he wrote it.

[cricharddavies.insanejournal.com]

He wrote three -- "Wolf in the Fold", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", and, seasonally appropriate, the Halloween episode "Catspaw".

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Catspaw was the one with the little pipecleaner aliens at the end ?

[cricharddavies.insanejournal.com]

Ayep.

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Any idea who wrote "requiem for the Methuselah"?

[cricharddavies.insanejournal.com]

Jerome Bixby; he also wrote "Mirror, Mirror", "Day of the Dove", and "By Any Other Name".

This is all on Wikipedia and the IMDB, you know.

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, but that would mean I would have to look it up :)


seriously the Halloween season has exhausted this mask-maker.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

There's an inaccuracy here - the actual text of the Ripper's message reads:

I'm not a butcher,
I'm not a yid,
Nor yet a foreign skipper,
But I'm your own light-hearted friend,
Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.

'Yid', not 'kid'.

[cricharddavies.insanejournal.com]

Given that "yid" is a racial epithet for "Jew", it should not surprise that they changed it for a comic book published in the 1970s.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

I just think if they're going to include the note, they might as well do it accurately - I'm pretty certain that 'kid', in Victorian times, still meant exclusively 'young goat', rather than also meaning 'child or younger person'. It's a pretty glaring anachronism, and the note is unnecessary in the first place - as best I can tell, it doesn't affect the plot in any way.