Yet More Comic Book Sinking Scenes

[QuicXander]

I don't mean this to come off as combative, as I agree with the policy wholeheartedly, but I always kind of smile to myself when this policy is mentioned and yet the figures in the artwork on the front page of the site look like minors to me, especially the male.

[PM2K]

Here's some pages from another comic book version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. This is from a Classics Illustrated one, from 1948.

[nachtjaeger]

Thanks!

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In the book, you never "see" Stapleton's demise. He disappears into the fog. Holmes and Watson find Stapleton's wife gagged and bound to a post in their cottage. It turns out she is the one who has been trying to warn Sir Henry. And she is PISSED! Stapleton (the genetic and spiritual heir of the evil Hugo Baskerville) has been beating the snot out of her. She is laughing at the thought of her husband trying to spot the "guiding wands" they planted in the Mire to mark the safe path to the secret island where Stapleton kept the Hound. The next day, in daylight, she leads Holmes, Watson, and Sir Henry into the Mire on her husband's trail. On the way through the Mire, Holmes spots something sticking out of the mud, and steps off the path to retrieve it. Sploop! Sir Henry and Watson have to rescue him, but he says it was worth the mud bath- it's Sir Henry's missing boot, used by Stapleton to put the starved hound on his scent. They make it to the island, but there is no trace of Stapleton- he has apparently been taken by the Mire.

So many implied QS scenes in that novel. The most obvious is Stapleton's fate.

There's also when Hugo Baskerville catches his escaped sex slave- after she has ridden one of his best horses into the mire. It is easy to imagine that he "rescues" her, then basically rapes her to death. And, since Hugo had, with vile oaths, promised his soul to Old Scratch if he could catch both horse and girl before Midnight, a genuine Hellhound shows up to claim it.

Still another implied scene some of you folks may have overlooked. When Holmes and Watson rescue Mrs. Stapleton, she says (of Stapleton's flight into the Mire) "But how will he see the guiding-wands tonight? We planted them together, he and I!" Given Stapleton's treatment of his wife, do we have any doubt he forced her ahead of him into the Mire, with a rope tied around her? That would make a great scene, with the Lady in Victorian costume.

[stefani_qs]

So many implied QS scenes in that novel. The most obvious is Stapleton's fate.

There's also when Hugo Baskerville catches his escaped sex slave- after she has ridden one of his best horses into the mire. It is easy to imagine that he "rescues" her, then basically rapes her to death. And, since Hugo had, with vile oaths, promised his soul to Old Scratch if he could catch both horse and girl before Midnight, a genuine Hellhound shows up to claim it.

Still another implied scene some of you folks may have overlooked. When Holmes and Watson rescue Mrs. Stapleton, she says (of Stapleton's flight into the Mire) "But how will he see the guiding-wands tonight? We planted them together, he and I!" Given Stapleton's treatment of his wife, do we have any doubt he forced her ahead of him into the Mire, with a rope tied around her? That would make a great scene, with the Lady in Victorian costume.

yeh mpv could do great stuf w. these scenes!

[dlodoski]

So many implied QS scenes in that novel. The most obvious is Stapleton's fate.

There's also when Hugo Baskerville catches his escaped sex slave- after she has ridden one of his best horses into the mire. It is easy to imagine that he "rescues" her, then basically rapes her to death. And, since Hugo had, with vile oaths, promised his soul to Old Scratch if he could catch both horse and girl before Midnight, a genuine Hellhound shows up to claim it.

Still another implied scene some of you folks may have overlooked. When Holmes and Watson rescue Mrs. Stapleton, she says (of Stapleton's flight into the Mire) "But how will he see the guiding-wands tonight? We planted them together, he and I!" Given Stapleton's treatment of his wife, do we have any doubt he forced her ahead of him into the Mire, with a rope tied around her? That would make a great scene, with the Lady in Victorian costume.

yeh mpv could do great stuf w. these scenes!

I agree, it a great premise. Can't expand on it too much here. But consider it duly noted.

[BogDog]

Could "Ziggy" be a closet QS fan?

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[Tim Kelly]

probably a dumb question: has there ever been a comic version of Ngaio Marsh's "Colour Scheme"? It's the nearest equivalent of "Hound..." in New Zealand literature. Basically, a body is fished out of a fumarole (a lake of boiling mud) in Rotoroa, New Zealand. It turns out that he is a Nazi spy, lured to a supposed meeting by his fellow spies, fearing that he was about to defect and betray them; they switch a green flag (meaning: Walk This Way) and a red one (meaning: For God's Sake DON'T Walk This Way) so the mark "Walks This Way" straight into a lake of boiling mud with the predicted result!

[PM2K]

probably a dumb question: has there ever been a comic version of Ngaio Marsh's "Colour Scheme"? It's the nearest equivalent of "Hound..." in New Zealand literature. Basically, a body is fished out of a fumarole (a lake of boiling mud) in Rotoroa, New Zealand. It turns out that he is a Nazi spy, lured to a supposed meeting by his fellow spies, fearing that he was about to defect and betray them; they switch a green flag (meaning: Walk This Way) and a red one (meaning: For God's Sake DON'T Walk This Way) so the mark "Walks This Way" straight into a lake of boiling mud with the predicted result!

Never heard of that scene before. Sounds awesome. Certainly worth a look see...

[BogDog]

I find it fascinating that the author's name, "Ngaio Marsh", sounds like it would make for a great title for a QS story...

No comic found, but the book has apparently been released under quite a variety of front covers, some of which we would appreciate here...

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[PM2K]

I find it fascinating that the author's name, "Ngaio Marsh", sounds like it would make for a great title for a QS story...

No comic found, but the book has apparently been released under quite a variety of front covers, some of which we would appreciate here...

Nice finds! Thanks, BogDog!