Jazz Age Chronicles 7

Jazz Age, the comic was nominated for an Ignatz Award in the category "Outstanding Online Comic" in 2003 and named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. Prior to the webcomic, Jazz Age Chronicles was released in printed format from EF Graphics and Caliber Comics. It's Boston in the 1920s. Famed Harvard archaeologist Clifton Jennings, international adventurer and discoverer of ancient treasures, has some adventures no one knows about. He's a member of a Secret Society, one that guards against supernatural threats and unscrupulous meddlers in the black arts. One such meddler is the Baroness Marlene Von Treska, with whom Jennings shares a history. In The Case of the Beguiling Baroness, when she is rumored to be in town, Jennings and his Secret Society hire seedy private eye Ace Mifflin to keep tabs on her whereabouts. And that's when their troubles really begin... In Vote Early & Often, the detective finds himself unwittingly in the spotlight when he publicly accuses the leading candidate for district attorney of a murder his friend is on trial for! Will he get his friend out of jail, or just put himself in? Chronicles, Volume One follows the first adventures of Jennings and Ace and their adventure-seeking gang as they go up against threats both earthly and supernatural. This is the first of a two-volume set that reprints the entire original print run of Jazz Age Chronicles from the late 1980s and early '90s. REVIEWS ..".a very good period private-eye story... an excellent mixture of the realistic and the fantastic... pick up a copy. Grade: A."-----Don Thompson, Comics Buyer's Guide "Jazz Age Chronicles is an extremely well-crafted detective series.... Jazz Age Chronicles' creator, Ted Slampyak, has filled his comic with references to the era. That's the sort of touch that I appreciate...----Cliff Biggers, Comic Shop News "[Ted Slampyak's] backgrounds give a strong feeling of credibility to the plot. I really feel like the characters are in a city that exists. The story comes alive because of it...."----Gene Colan, Hall-of-Fame artist, Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula, Nathaniel Dusk.

"The Flowers of San Pedro" - PART 1 of 3. Clifford Jennings and Ace Mifflin travel to New Mexico to investigate the disappearance of Jennings¡¯ old colleague, Professor Russell who was a member of Jenning's secret organization. But Mifflin finds himself out of his element of speakeasies and city streets as he travels into the midst of cutthroats, Indian shamans, and occult evil. Now he has to deal with a town of very angry villagers and a secret tunnel covered with the mysterious flowers of San Pedro.

Think Magnum PI set during the 1920s! DOUBLE MYSTERY! Set in the 1920's Jazz Chronicles centers around Ace Mifflin, private eye, who finds himself plunged into mysteries that go beyond his comfort zone of speakeasies and the streets of Boston. "The Case of the Beguiling Baroness": When famed archeologist Clifford Jennings' Secret Society needs to keep track of Baroness Von Treska, a notorious dabbler in the black arts, they hire Mifflin. And that's when things really get out of hand. And while the true fate of the Baroness remains a mystery, Jennings, Mifflin, and Flynt must track down a killer that is beyond anything Mifflin has experienced before. And even if they can catch the killer, how can they possibly stop him? In a secondary tale, "Vote Early and Often" Ace Mifflin finds himself on the wrong side of the law as he attempts to help an old friend beat a murder charge. And what connection could all this have with a disaster in Mifflin's past that nearly brought Boston to its knees? On the verge of finding the proof that he needs to clear his friend, his evidence disappears. And with the election primary coming up, can Mifflin reassemble all the pieces and prove his allegations that the real murderer is running for office? Collects comic book issues 1-5.

Think Magnum PI set during the 1920s! DOUBLE MYSTERY "The Flowers of San Pedro": Jennings and Mifflin travel to New Mexico to investigate the disappearance of Jennings¡¯ old colleague, Professor Russell. Mifflin finds himself out of his element as he travels into the midst of cutthroats, Indian shamans, dusty plains, and occult evil. Now he has to deal with a town of very angry villagers and a secret tunnel covered with the mysterious flowers of San Pedro. But when the bullets start to fly, how do the four of them stand a chance? And what connection could the flowers that Professor Russell was studying, the famed flowers of San Pedro, tie into the his disappearance? Mifflin finds that the crime ridden streets of his Boston neighborhood were nothing compared to what he experiences out West. Also included is the story of the "Stranger in Bryn Mawr": While Jennings and Ace Mifflin settle their differences in a heated baseball game, young genius, Nora Carlisle, uncovers a mystery of her own at college she is attending. Collects issues 6-9.

"The Case of the Beguiling Baroness" - PART 3 of 3. Time is running out for Professor Jennings, private eye Ace Mifflin, and Flynt as they desperately try to find a a seemingly supernatural killer that now has taken Flynt's sister captive.

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