Trivia | - * Opening quote is from Simple Art of Murder, written by Raymond Chandler.
* When they get out of the elevator, there is graffiti on the wall that says "Abandon Hope" ... this is an allusion to the famous words written above the portal to Hell in Dante's Inferno ... "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here".
* Don Herron, who is giving a walking tour in this issue in San Francisco, is a real person. As noted in the letters section of the issue, Herron gives a "walking tour" of real life places or their equivalents from the works of Dashiell Hammet .
* Letters section contains letters from Edward Witt, Mark Waldman, Thomas Prill, as well as a review by Don Thompson .
** In the same month, Mark Waldman also had fan letters appear in Tales of the New Teen Titans #54 and Jemm #10.
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