Published together in DOUBLE DANGER TALES #64, “Murder Town” & “The Legend by Tom Johnson,
available in print for $10.00 post paid from Tom Johnson
(fadingshadows40@gmail.com) and Kindle on Amazon for $.99.
Murder Town
Compere
had not been able to get Peggy away from the door leading to the stairwell, and
he knew that danger lay in that direction. He increased his deadly fire, but
had become a non-moving target himself. A bullet from one of the gangster’s
guns clipped the little gas container on his belt, and suddenly two skull-faced
apparitions appeared, one on each wrist of his hands. With a slight movement of
his wrists, the gas-filled balloons were disconnected and flew from his
outstretched arms with a loud hiss, each flying in opposite directions.
The
appearance of the banshees was so sudden, gangsters turned their fire on the
two escaping gas balloons, and Compere accounted for another four hoodlums as
their guns had been diverted from him.
Unfortunately,
his luck was running out. He heard a light sound from behind, a short sigh from
Peggy, and then he felt the cold hard steel of the barrel of a revolver digging
into his spine. A vicious voice grunted from behind, "Drop your cannons,
friend, or this girl gets a bullet in the head!"
The Legend
After
cleaning up the town in 1953, the mysterious crime fighter disappeared. Many
thought he had been killed in his last battle with gangdom. None thought he
would ever return. But when an old menace surfaces again in the late ‘60s, a
gray haired man takes up the mantle of the city’s paladin once more. The Legend
had returned.
