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]
Silent Film parody
Your Sunday Funnies: Fingers of Fear, Episodes 5 and 6!
[Editor’s Note: Read the Entire Adventure from the Beginning]
Hazel Knutt, the famous detective, has traveled to California, following an ever expanding trail of mystery, in this silent film thriller from Ed. Wheelan.
IT SEEMS ALMOST UNNECESSARY TO WARN YOU NOT TO MISS NEXT WEEK’S EPISODE.
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!”
^^^
Audere Magazine publishes an old or new comic strip many Sundays. Read more here.