Faucon Noir #12
"La femme de glace" in Faucon Noir #12 (1979) delivers a quirky, suspenseful twist on a classic detective setup, as the Elongated Man and his wife Sue set out for a quiet day of fishing—only to discover the lake is dry, and something far stranger is afoot. With writer Gardner Fox and the dynamic art of Carmine Infantino (pencils and inks), the story unfolds with a mysterious figure fishing in the mud with a magnet, leading the Elongated Man on a trail through an old house and into a hidden scheme, all beneath a cover by an unknown artist.
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The Elongated Man and his wife Sue decide to go fishing at Lake Cherokee without knowing that this lake is dry. Among the trees they observed a man fishing in the mud with a magnet and finally he captures a key. The Elongated Man follows him to the old house of Elmer Ewell but can not thwart the robbery but rather is subdued by the anti-theft system of the house. However he escapes and tracks the thief to his hideout and recover the loot.
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