Number 1799: Black Angel...Black Widow...?

Nazis get the tables turned on them in Yugoslavia. They think they are spreading cholera germs, but they are actually spreading ipecac powder* which makes a person vomit. When the Nazis get sick they think that cholera has turned against them. My first of two favorite lines from this story, “Ohh...do something! Der Fuehrer vill have a tantrum!”

My second favorite line comes from our slinky heroine, Black Angel. While friendlies are pouring ipecac into food bins she says: “How I’d love to drop enough ground glass in with it to make a first-class stomach-ache!” Vengeful, isn’t she? I would not have ever bet against Black Angel. And I wonder what happened to her after the war. Did she get married? I'd worry if she was still thinking about ground glass. Used against a husband, she'd be renamed the Black Widow.

Drawn by John Cassone, from Air Fighters Comics #12 (1943):

*Ipecac syrup was once commonly kept in medicine chests. Purging was one way to fix a tummyache. I don’t remember my mother using it on me, but maybe I have mercifully forgotten. It is not much used anymore.

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