Funny Pages #42

At Collegiantix College, homecoming week brings alumni flooding into the frat house and sparks a competition for the best-decorated house—plus a spirited battle over who'll escort the newly crowned homecoming queen to the dance. When Peggy Joyce declares she'll dance with whoever performs best on the football field, cheerleader Jack Craig and fullback Tom Roderick both step up to prove their worth in a wild, chaotic game against Whoozit. By the time the final whistle blows, one thing's certain: the dance floor is going to be packed with admirers.

When private detective Randall Ross receives a frantic midnight call from his old friend Scotty Grant, an ace reporter who claims to be on the trail of a major dope-smuggling story, the line goes dead—and Grant's voice is silenced by what sounds like an attack. Following a clue left at a seedy diner, Ross begins to unravel a dangerous criminal conspiracy that leads him from the city's toughest neighborhoods to an unexpected figure: a supposedly blind beggar working the subway station. As Ross digs deeper into the mystery, he discovers nothing—and no one—is quite what it seems, and must navigate a web of deception, violence, and hidden identities to save his friend and bring the racketeers to justice.