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The Mouthpiece, a district attorney who wears a mask and blue, suit like the Spirit, was a back-up character for a time in Police Comics. These two stories, taken from Police #2 and #5 (1941) are crazy but have energy, and the obsessively smooth ink line of Fred Guardineer.
In story one the Mouthpiece rescues a girl who has been thrown down a well after having had her feet encased in concrete. She is really lucky to have him to rescue her, although I wonder how she felt when he had to chip that concrete off her feet. Ouch. But the Mouthpiece and the girl rig up a trick with a store manikin to fool the two cretins who tossed her in the well. Justice prevails!
The second story is even wilder, with a mad professor in a monk’s robe, who uses the old mirror-on-the-road trick to reflect the headlights of cars. In the words of the professor: “YEOW-HA, HA, HO!” I’ll let that serve as my feelings about this craziness, also.
Click on the thumbnail to go to a posting with three backup stories from Police Comics, including another adventure of the Mouthpiece.
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