Funnyman #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Wanted: One Corpse!", Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster deliver a delightfully twisted tale of crime and comic misadventure. When Doc Gimmick unleashes his bizarre pacifier to turn cops into peaceable puppets, his plans for robbery take a strange turn—while a struggling comic artist’s quest to make his character truly loathsome accidentally sparks a nationwide backlash. The story’s sharp wit and offbeat menace shine through Joe Shuster’s distinctive pencils and inks, both inside and on the cover.
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Having created the "peculiar pacifier", Doc Gimmick sends Torgo out to lure a cop to his laboratory, and when the Policeman arrives, the doc uses his creation on him, whose gas makes anyone who smells it conciliatory or peaceable. When the doc proves that it works, he feels safe on using it anywhere and on anyone so that he can commit his robberies. Meanwhile, the artist on the famed Louie the Lout strip, is told by his editor to achieve a new epitome of loathsomeness for his comic character, which causes newspapers across the land to cancel the strip.
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