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Tuesday, June 8, 2021
DEATH WISHERS
DEATH WISH (1974)
dir: Michael Winner
DEATH WISHERS
MAD # 174, April 1975
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
Back when New York wasn't just a city full of crime and murder, it was the city of crime and murder.
Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is an ordinary citizen coming back to work as an architect after a vacation with his wife (Hope Lange). His wife goes out grocery shopping when they get back and thugs follow her home.
His wife lets the thugs into the apartment believing they are there to deliver groceries and when they come in they kill her and assault their daughter (Kathleen Tolan). Paul is informed of this by son-in-law Sam (William Redfield). As Paul looks into it while trying to put his life back together, he sees more muggings and beatings. He experiences a mugging himself, fending off the criminal with a sock full of coins.
The policeman helping investigate is a caricature of Telly Savalas as Kojak.
Paul is sent to work with a client in Arizona, and while there, they invite him to a shooting range. Initially hesitant to use a gun, they are impressed by his skills, and give him a gun on his trip back home. He pines for his wife at home, and his daughter who's still hospitalized.
Paul uses the gun he was given for self defense and ends up using it when mugged again. Having killed someone makes him sick, but the next night he goes on a shooting spree. The NYPD led by Frank Ochoa (Vincent Gardenia) looks into this.
Paul's become a hero to some.
The police finds out Paul Keresy is the killer but Ochoa chooses not to prosecute since this vigilantism has drawn the attention of the public and drastically reduced crime. It would only make him a martyr and create more copycat vigilantes. They make a deal with Paul that if he leaves the city and never returns, they'll drop the whole thing.
The other cop in the middle row is Al Pacino as Serpico.
Vincent Gardenia wrote in to show how much he liked his portrayal.
The Germans did their own cover when they reprinted this.
DEATH TWITCH
Crazy #10, April 1975
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Vance Rodewalt
That's Jack Lord from Hawaii Five-O
The characters in this don't have names anywhere near the characters in the movie.
In the Mad parody, on the bottom of page 2, the guy working the supermarket checkout is Edward Mulhare, who starred with Hope Lange in The Ghost And Mrs. Muir.
In the Mad parody, on the bottom of page 2, the guy working the supermarket checkout is Edward Mulhare, who starred with Hope Lange in The Ghost And Mrs. Muir.
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