Appearances by Sherlock Holmes and his
imitators in British comics.
WARNING: These are summaries, not reviews, and may contain story spoilers.
Appearances by Sherlock Holmes and his
imitators in British comics.
WARNING: These are summaries, not reviews, and may contain story spoilers.
Prog 289 (6th November 1982)
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 Story: Jack Adrian Artist: John Higgins |
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| Hemlock Bones - Who He?
Part 1: On his way home after another calamity on the
set of the TV show in which he plays detective Hemlock
Bones, actor Ernie Grice is abducted by aliens. They
believe he is Sherlock Holmes and become enraged when
they discover that he is only an actor. |
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Prog 290 (13th November 1982) |
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Story: Jack Adrian Artist: John Higgins |
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| Hemlock Bones - Who He?
Part 2: The Lord-High-Most-things of the Planet
Squarl, Vulcan-Barff, is facing a dilemma: by the
ancient laws of Squarl the Emperor should be the elder
of the two twins who are the contenders for the title,
with the younger being sentenced to death. Only the
twins' old nanny knows which is which, but she has
been abducted by gypsies. It was hoped that Sherlock
Holmes would solve the mystery, but now it is down to
Grice to come up with a satisfactory conclusion. |
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Prog 861 (13th November 1993) |
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 Script: Mark Millar Art: Chris Weston |
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| Part 1: Watson returns to Baker Street to find Lestrade there, and Holmes and Moriarty dead in an apparent suicide pact. Watson contacts Canon Fodder and tells him that they have to stop Holmes and Moriarty in their plan to go to Heaven to kill God. | ||
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Prog 862 (20th November 1993) |
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Script: Mark Millar Art: Chris Weston |
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| Part 2: Watson recalls his own waking on Judgement Day after his death in 1903. Fodder takes Watson to Bedlam, where they recruit Mycroft Holmes, a serial killer, to help them stop Holmes and Moriarty. | ||
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Prog 863 (27th November 1993) |
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Script: Mark Millar Art: Chris Weston |
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| Part 3: Watson's journal
records God's failure to take the newly dead into
Heaven, leading to a population explosion, and the
formation of Fodder's Priest Patrol. Holmes and
Moriarty begin their assault on Heaven, and Mycroft
leads Watson and Fodder into Purgatory. |
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Prog 864 (4th December 1993) |
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Script: Mark Millar Art: Chris Weston |
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| Part 4: Holmes and
Moriarty arrive at Heaven's Gates to find that it has
already come under attack, and God is already dead. |
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Prog 865 (11th December 1993) |
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Script: Mark Millar Art: Chris Weston |
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| Part 5: Mycroft leads Watson and Fodder to Hell, but they find it empty of all but Judas Iscariot. They travel on to Heaven and discover all that's left of Holmes and Moriarty. They come under attack by underground hordes. Mycroft is killed and Watson dragged undergound. | ||
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Prog 867 (25th December 1993) |
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Script: Mark Millar Art: Chris Weston |
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| Part 7: God returns and
Lucifer is defeated. In Purgatory, Watson takes on the
task of cataloguing the lives of every soul who has
ever lived on Earth. (Part 6 contains no Sherlockian characters.) |
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