(Big Shot Comics 006, 1940)
Someone is killing old policemen! And furthermore, they’re doing it in such a way that their skin is tinted blue as they die! Unsurprisingly, this ends up being called the Blue Death. But Who is administering it, and why?
It’s a short story, so we find out pretty quickly that the culprit is one Doctor Swanson and he’s getting revenge on the eight police officers who arrested him twenty-three years earlier, using special arsenic/ phosphorous/ radium darts. What was he arrested for? What is he a doctor of? These questions are not answered before he is killed in a shootout with gunslinging District Attorney Tom Kerry.
Spotlight On: the article on Swanson’s initial arrest including the partial text “… throat cut… eyes… gouged out… tongue… pulled out…” It really was a heck of an arrest.
JUDGE AND JURY ARRESTING OFFICER REVENGE KILLING SCORE: 3/8