Number 2056: So beautiful, so psycho

“What mysterious psychological quirk motivated her crimes?” asks the splash panel blurb. To answer the question I would guess Laura, the focus of “The She-Wolf Killer,” is a psychopath. Nowadays psychiatrists would say she has an antisocial personality disorder, but yeah, to me she’s a stone-cold psychopath. In a six page story it takes nearly three before she commits her first killing, but it is easy for her, so she keeps it up until she is shot dead.

This is not a particularly well-written crime story, but it is prettied up considerably by Matt Baker’s artwork. He could turn an evil psychopath into a blonde cheesecake model, so young fellows reading might fantasize about Laura. Nice trick getting her skirt to billow above her knees. It reminds me of his work on Sky Girl in Jumbo Comics. This story is from Weird Adventures #1 (1951), from the small publisher, P.L. Publishing Co., also known as X.L. Publishing. In one of the weirdest things about Weird Adventures, it has two indicias, one for X.L., and one for P.L.

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