Mark Conway #1

(1959)

Murder by Phone (Table of Contents: 1)

Mark Conway / comic story / 64 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Trevillion ?

Pencils

Paul Trevillion

Inks

Paul Trevillion

Letters

Paul Trevillion ?

Genre

crime; sport

Characters

Mark Conway; Jones, captain of the City football (soccer) team; Len Marsh, goalkeeper.

Synopsis

Mark Conway, athlete and star player for the soccer team The City, is contacted by by an unnamed blackmailer who will stop at nothing to get Conway to accept his demands. After the captain and goaltender for his team are both murdered Conway has yet to inform the police of the communications between him and the killer, and the ensuing stress takes its toll on his performance with the team. A third murder takes place, this time a police constable, and the police are frustrated by Conway's unwillingness to cooperate.

Indexer Notes

Paul Trevillion (b. 1934) is a celebrated illustrator in his native Great Britain, primarily known for his work depicting sports players both real and imagined, beginning with Roy of Roy and the Rovers, a character created in the Fifties. While still a student he contributed work to publications like Eagle and TV Century 21, and in the Sixties lived in America for a time working with Mark McCormack, founder and chairman of International Management Group (IMG), an international management organization serving sports figures and celebrities. His overall career spans fifty years of producing pieces for the sports genre.