Saturday, April 02, 2022

Today in Comics History, April 2, 1915 and 1936: Nero Wolfe Explains It All


from Nero Wolfe: The Red Box graphic novel [scanlation of Collectie Detective Comics v.17: De rode doos] (Claude Lefrancq Editeur (Netherlands), April 1992), script by Jean-Claude de la Royère, adapted from the novel by Rex Stout, pencils and inks by Phillipe Wurm, colors by Kate

Wait, your wife died the day the baby was born or your baby died? Either way, which one of them was two on that day? Oh, but this seems like kind of a sensitive matter...do you want us to come back later?

Meanwhile, twenty-one years later...



Surely this will be an impossible case for Wolfe to crack, and


Oh, it's the old "Masquerade As a Dead Baby for 21 Years" con game. But that trick never works!

Well, that about wraps up the Mystery of the Red Box.

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