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Seven Secrets #17

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The series pauses for its penultimate issue, exploring the past of Eva and Caspar on the eve of the resurrection of her son (who is no longer her son), before the next issue’s big climax between the two secret organizations over the secrets and the fate of the world. It turns out Caspar is indeed Eva’s son, and was born human although the Seventh Secret went into him while still in the hospital and has been waiting for the right time to emerge. No time like the present.

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Detective Comics #1059

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When is a criminal not a criminal? That’s the question an old nemesis asks all of Gotham City. A new arc and mystery begins in Detective Comics #1059 as the Riddler takes to the airwaves with a series of puzzles for Gotham just as the city is hit by a wave of amateur crime including the attempted bombing of a Gotham City judge during a sentencing hearing. 

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Tokyo Vice – The Test

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  • Title: Tokyo Vice – The Test
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There is no murder in Japan. Based on the real experiences of American journalist Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) working in Tokyo (although earning scrutiny for the liberties it takes with the source material), the first episode of Tokyo Vice introduces us to Jake who earns his way as the first foreign reporter for a conservative Japanese newspaper. Covering the crime beat, Jake struggles with how crime is reported in Japan where the press print the official police statement of a crime which almost never entertains the possibility of murder (even for a man stabbed multiple times and left for dead).

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Moon Knight – Asylum

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  • Title: Moon Knight – Asylum
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The appropriately titled “Asylum” offers a lookin inside the mind of Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) and Steven Grant who find themselves in an undead construct of a psychiatric hospital on their way to the underworld by way of their guide Taweret (Antonia Salib). While putting recent events and their consequences on hold, the episode delves into connection between Marc and Steven and definitively explores which is the original personality of the man who would eventually become Moon Knight. Speaking of the hero, we don’t get to see him in action here, but we do get a flashback to Marc’s first encounter with Khonshu (F. Murray Abraham) and his acceptance of his new role.

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The Secret of Terror Castle

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  • Title: The Secret of Terror Castle
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads them in search of a haunted house. The first book in the Three Investigators series introduces us to Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews along with the Jones Salvage Yard, the trademark question marks, and the use of the vintage Rolls-Royce which are all part of the series from the outset.

Using a bit of chicanery to earn their first job of searching for a haunted house for a movie director (originally Alfred Hitchcock and in later additions changed to be Reginald Clarke), the young detectives hope the publicity of the case will help launch their new detective agency. Clarke isn’t exactly thrilled with the arrangement, or introducing the trio’s case for them on its conclusion, but The Secret of Terror Castle does what Jupiter Jones hoped it would do in launching the Three Investigators into business.

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