Four Color #11
"Moving Target" in Four Color #11 (1940) delivers a quirky, early 1940s mystery with a twisty mix of mistaken identity and romantic entanglements. Written and drawn by Walter Berndt, the story follows George Bailey as he takes his loyal office boy on a vacation, only to find himself tangled in a web of confusion when a man claiming to be Mr. Smith—long thought dead—reappears with no memory of his past. Meanwhile, George’s awkward promise to marry Miss Dolly Flutter adds to the chaos, while wealthy Roger King’s plans to wed Mrs. Smith hit a snag with the sudden return of her missing husband. The cover by Walter Berndt captures the story’s lighthearted suspense, all rendered in the distinctive style of the era’s Western Publishing Production Shop.
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In gratitude for Smitty returning his shares of stock to George Bailey, restoring Bailey to his position as majority stockholder, the reinstated boss takes his office boy on a vacation to the North Woods. Wealthy Roger King plans to marry Mrs. Smith, whose husband disappeared years ago in an airline accident. Mr. Smith turns up as a helper to Roger King's gardeners, but with a case of amnesia, complicating the wedding plans. In further wedding woes, George Bailey does his best to extricate himself from an inadvertent promise to marry Miss Dolly Flutter.
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