The Maze Agency #17

(December 1990)

Terrible Swift Sword (Table of Contents: 1)

Maze Agency / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script:

Mike W. Barr

Pencils:

Darick Robertson

Inks:

Jim Sinclair; Keith Aiken

Colors:

Susan Glod

Letters:

Vickie Williams

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Gabriel Webb; Jennifer Mays; Karen Rydell; Carly Rydell; Steve Rydell; Judah Billings; Ruth Stanner; Malachi Stanner; Sheriff Markham; Danielle Davidson [Davida Rachel Coombs];

Synopsis:

Gabriel and Jennifer are out camping with the Rydells and their teenage daughter Carly, fresh out of an apocalyptic cult. When Carly disappears, the detectives track her to her old boyfriend Malachi, son of cult leader Ruth Stanner. Joined by the local sheriff, they find Ruth dead beneath the statue of an angel with a bloody sword. But this was just a red herring. Ruth had her throat cut by a pair of sharpened finger nails! The guilty party is fellow cultist Daniella, who wanted to avenge her brother, whom she suspected had been killed by the cult after leaving them all his money in his will.

Reprints:

• in Seriemagasinet (Semic, 1970 series) #6/1992 (1992)
• in Agent X9 (Semic, 1976 series) #9/1995 (uke 34 1995)