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volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-30 12:29:00

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creator: gil kane, publisher: marvel comics, title: journey into mystery

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 2009-10-30 04:47 pm UTC (link)
	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.... (Reply to this)

	citygod 2009-10-30 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	Interesting indicia on the first page: never heard of "Magazine Management Co." before. It was a subsidiary of Marvel? (Reply to this)

brandiweed.livejournal.com
2009-10-30 06:46 pm UTC (link)

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".)

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	wizardru 2009-10-30 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	So I'm curious....how is Jack so young? Is he some sort of supernatural vampire, like Sir Guy suggests? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-30 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, that is the idea of the story.The ripper just jumps from body to body to escape and start over again. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-10-30 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	That was one of the strangest storie of the old Trek'. I didn't know he wrote it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cricharddavies 2009-10-30 08:14 pm UTC (link)
	He wrote three -- "Wolf in the Fold", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", and, seasonally appropriate, the Halloween episode "Catspaw". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-30 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	Catspaw was the one with the little pipecleaner aliens at the end ? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cricharddavies 2009-10-30 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	Ayep. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-30 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	Any idea who wrote "requiem for the Methuselah"? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cricharddavies 2009-10-31 12:04 am UTC (link)
	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. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-31 12:42 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, but that would mean I would have to look it up :) seriously the Halloween season has exhausted this mask-maker. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-31 05:13 am UTC (link)
	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'. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cricharddavies 2009-10-31 05:29 am UTC (link)
	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. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-31 07:35 am UTC (link)
	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. (Reply to this) (Parent)