La trama del ragno

Plot and script: Moreno Burattini
Artwork: Marco Verni
Cover: Gallieno Ferri

If you’re among those who believe that all you need is a rope and a noose, and hey presto your man is hanged, then you’d better think again! Look at the case of a veritable genius of crime like Mortimer, an old enemy of the Spirit with the Hatchet: sentenced to death for his innumerable crimes, Mortimer was strung up by the neck in the presence of dozens of witnesses. And yet here he is again months later, alive and kicking, in the very same frontier township where there’s a plot afoot to launch an attempt on the life of Malcolm Sykes, the Gubernatorial candidate. And the whole tricky affair is further compounded by the fact that the author of the plot doesn’t seem to be Mortimer, back from the dead, but rather another dreaded adversary of Zagor’s, who has re-emerged all of a sudden from the mists of the past…