| Synopsis | - --09-10
- In part one of this saga a young peasant man, Henry Lansbury, recruited another to defeat the Black Wizard terrorizing his village. This tale ponders the outcome had our hero confronted the evil tyrant himself.
- Deadman seeks to learn what has happened to the police detective assigned to his case. He discovers that the detective, Michael Riley, has been falsely accused of brutally beating a thief who had already surrendered to him, and has been kicked off the force. Deadman, learning the accusers were ex-boxer Peter Bones and a hook-handed man named "Roy Martin", suspects Martin of being the Hook and staging the frame-up to get Riley off his trail. Deadman enters Riley's body, confronts Bones, and learns that the ex-pugilist agreed to give false testimony along with "Martin" in exchange for money to buy feed for his pet pigeons, the only companions he has left. Deadman / Riley leaves to phone the police to pick up Bones and to apprehend the Hook, who is still living nearby. But in the interim, the Hook beats Bones to death with a crowbar and flees. A travel folder for Mexico found in the Hook's apartment indicates his destination. Riley is restored to his post as police detective, but Deadman has once again failed to find his killer.
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