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 out to avenge a brother's death.

Reprints

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