![]() ![]() ![]() In The Devil’s Punchbowl a girl is spirited away by a cult and religious extremists square off against Satanists in the suburbs as Ms. Classic Collins crime tales in the comics are like his 21st century crime novels–they do not disappoint. Tree stories next month, five more stories from the dark corners of big city life, in Ms. ![]() ![]() The Hard Case Crime imprint of Titan Comics is publishing the second volume of Ms. She borrows something real and gritty from Erle Stanley Gardner’s detective Bertha Cool and her brand of sleuthing, certainly unique for the 1980s. Michael Tree is the 6-foot tall, 9 mm pistol-toting private eye with a clever homonym name, referred to as the “female Mike Hammer” in the stories written by the man who would take over the character from Mickey Spillane. Tree stories from the 1980s, penned twenty years before Jessica Jones, written by Collins and illustrated by artist Terry Beatty- Ms. A year ago, I reviewed a new collection of classic Ms. Tree, a series published then by Eclipse. Some of Collins’ proposed stories were too racy for the average daily newspaper, so Collins took this as an opportunity to introduce the stories in the pages of Ms. From 1977 to 1993, noted crime writer Max Allan Collins was writing stories “ripped from the headlines” in the Dick Tracy comic strip. ![]()
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