Fingers of Fear: The Final Episode!
The final episode of Ed. Wheelan’s rare silent film thriller, in which 1920’s detective Hazel Knutt struggles to escape from a gang of kidnappers!
[Editor’s Note: Read the Entire Adventure from the Beginning]
Fingers of Fear
Your Sunday Funnies: Ed. Wheelan’s “Fingers of Fear”
In this latest installment of the rare, faux silent film thriller from 1927, Hazel Knutt, the famous detective, follows a tangled web to a California honey magnate!
In the last episode, Hazel rebuffs the romantic advances of the suave and handsome Inspector Biill Straight, and receives and alarming telegram!
Your Sunday Funnies Presents “Fingers of Fear”!
In 1928, Ed. Whelan’s “Minute Movies” comic strip presented this faux silent film serial thriller through his faux motion picture production company, which we will be reprinting in the coming weeks. It’s exceedingly weird and contemporary in its outlook. Maybe it satirized and parodied ridiculous and questionable Jazz Age movie tropes of the day, maybe it perpetuated them; we think it was the former. Whelan’s work is hard to find these days, but we think he is due for rediscovery.
And remember: “DO NOT MISS A SINGLE EPISODE!”
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Audere Magazine publishes an old or new comic strip many Sundays. Read more here.