All-Star Comics #36
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "All-Star Comics Prologue," five lifelong friends gather at a western ranch, where Calvin Stymes shares the eerie legend of the Koehaha—known as the "Stream of Ruthlessness," said to flow once every century. As the men reflect on what they’d do with a criminal nature, the story takes a chilling turn when they each confront their darker impulses under the firelight. Written by Gardner Fox, Sheldon Mayer, Julius Schwartz, and Robert Kanigher, with art and inks by Irwin Hasen, this haunting tale unfolds with quiet dread. The cover, also by Hasen, captures the mood with a stark, shadowed image of the dry riverbed.
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Calvin Stymes invites five lifelong friends and fraternity brothers out to a western ranch, and, as they sit around the campfire, he recounts the legend of the dried-out stream-bed they were camping in. Called Koehaha, or "Stream of Ruthlessness," it runs once every 100 years. Strangely, those who "drown" in it don't really die, but neither do they come back to life, for the water washes away a man's better nature and replaces it with a ruthless nature. Each man explains what he might do with a criminal nature, then they all go to bed. Stymes moves onto the river bank while the others drown.
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