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Thanks also go to my longtime comics collaborator, cartoonist Terry Beatty, who again helped incorporate graphic novel elements into this work of prose, this time around perfectly capturing the EC Comics feel.

Thanks also go to my agent and friend, Dominick Abel, for his continuing support and hard work; and my wife Barbara, who read and edited this novel chapter-by-chapter, despite being in the midst of her draft of our latest “Barbara Allan”-bylined collaborative novel.

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