Here's a true tale of cold-hearted killing at Christmastime...
...that was told twice in graphic form in tales only a year apart!
Both the writer and artist(s) for this never-reprinted tale from Superior's Dynamic Comics #21 (1947) are unknown to this day.
A year later, penciler Gene Colan and inker Sy Grudko retold the story in Atlas' Justice Comics #4 (1948)!
This wasn't exactly a "hot off the presses" story...even in the 1940s.
The murders had occurred in 1899!
Maclean's, the Time Magazine of Canada had run the story as the premiere entry of a new historical series about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (aka "Mounties") in 1930, renewing public interest in the murders!
Here's a LINK to that issue!
It's likely the editors and/or writers of both comics came across the story while researching potential plotlines for their true-crime comics!
Bonus: here's a LINK to a recent article with a lot more info that wasn't available to the writer of the 1930 story!
Here's a LINK to that issue!
It's likely the editors and/or writers of both comics came across the story while researching potential plotlines for their true-crime comics!
Bonus: here's a LINK to a recent article with a lot more info that wasn't available to the writer of the 1930 story!
