NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES "Deadly Inheritance" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Greatest Sleuth of All...

Holmes and Watson are called upon to participate in a seance which could reveal where a missing will can be found.
Traveling to Norfolk Castle, the skeptical duo join family members in the seance where a vital clue is revealed by the ghostly voice of the deceased Norfolk pater.
But the murder of one of the participants ends the session before more information can be gleaned...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had been a noted skeptic about spiritualism and paramormal activity.
But the deaths of several family members including his younger brother, wife, and son in the early 1900s caused him to develop a near-obsession with the supernatural.
Though Doyle never incorporated supernatural elements into any Sherlock Holmes stories, the final novelette of his other major character, Professor Challenger, "The Land of Mist", was heavily-oriented towards the paranormal.
Art by Frank Giacoia, with several pages penciled by Mike Sekowsky, probably to help the very busy Giacoia meet the deadline.

The writer of these comic book stories, however, is unknown.

Sherlock Holmes will return in a few weeks...

NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES "Deadly Inheritance" Part 1

Return with us to fog-bound London circa 1890...

...as The World's Greatest Detective (and his faithful biographer) once more solve the unsolvable in an original, never-reprinted tale!

"The morning" will dawn one week from today, Holmsians.

Unlike the Charlton comic we ran HERE, this book from Dell Comics was authorized by the Doyle estate, who approved all the material before publication.

No missing flaps on Sherlock's deerstalker, Dr Watson is front and center once more, and it's set in the gaslit 1890s!

BTW, The book's title was not "New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #1", but Four Color #1169 (1961).

The strip's title was New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Four Color was an "umbrella" title, where Dell would try out concepts for one to three issues before giving them their own ongoing series...if sales warranted.

Regrettably, New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ended after only two issues.

Neither has ever been reprinted, but both will be re-presented in this blog over the next few months.

Art by Frank Giacoia, who illustrated a short-lived Sherlock Holmes newspaper comic strip several years earlier.

That newspaper strip was written by Edith Meiser, who had penned a number of Sherlock Holmes radio show scripts.

The writer of these comic book stories, however, is unknown.

Note: several pages were penciled by Mike Sekowsky, probably to help the very busy Giacoia meet the deadline.