- May 15, 2017After having reviewed that issue of House of Mystery with the Dial H for HERO story featuring Don Juan (misspelled as Don Jaun), it seems that another ability that comes with the sword is the ability to attract women. They were positively swarming him in that story! And if Raphael's sister was the one who took that sword from DJ in the original story, she's a feisty one indeed! Could cause some complications if Raphael's sister ever saw the new Don Juan.Carmen, however, proved immune to Don Juan's charms, perhaps because she's already "immunized" via true love. Just a thought.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhoneOn Sunday, February 26, 2017, 9:56 AM, johnreiter902@... [Earth1AftertheCrisis] <Earth1AftertheCrisis@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
“I think I found it!” Camilla exclaimed
It was late afternoon, hours after the fight. Raphael and Camilla had been ensconced in the public library for more than half that time, trying to discover the origin of the sword. A search through Juliet’s trunk had yielded only one clue. Buried among pictures and trophies of past romances, they found a photograph of Don Juan, floating over a harbor, sword in hand. He looked just like Raphael had looked when he used the magic.
It wasn’t much to go on, but it had been a start.
“What did you find?” Raphael asked, looking up from a book on the history of Spanish swordmaking. Aside from confirming the sword was an authentic 14th century rapier, he had drawn a blank.
Camilla lifted up one of the newspapers she had gotten from the archives so he could see the headline. INTERNATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATE DEFEATED BY SPAIN’S NEWEST HERO. It included a picture which looked not-unlike the one in his sister’s trunk.
Eagerly, he raced around the long table in the quiet corner they had found for studying and crowded close to his girl while they read the article avidly.
According to the paper, an international crime syndicate named Thunderbolt had been smuggling a stolen “instant-factory supercomputer” through Spain disguised as gypsies. They were suddenly uncovered in Malaga by a flying man dressed as Don Juan. He slashed though their phony gypsy wagon, and then deflected a missile with a parry from his magic sword so it exploded away from the crowds.
Wow, thought Raphael, I wonder if I could do that? He read on.
Don Juan was about to pursue the fleeing Thunderbolt agents, when he was mobbed by a crowd of teenage girls and disappeared.
Feeling a hunch forming, Raphael checked the date on the paper. It was published in November of 1978.
“My sister was in Malaga that day, on vacation!” The pieces were starting to fall into place. “She must have been one of those girls. Somehow, she got hold of the sword during the chaos.”
“And it didn’t do anything to her.” Camilla added. They had determined through experimentation that the sword didn’t word for Camilla at all, and Raphael was pretty sure that a girl couldn’t become Don Juan, based on the thoughts he had experienced when he changed.
“I wonder what ever happened to the original Don Juan?” Raphael asked.
“The papers don’t say; he never appeared again. Maybe he never figured out what happened to his sword?”
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