Garrie Hall
Those of the underworld are not sleeping soundly in their beds. Not while Grim Justice stalks the night.
Tony Scalesi walked free from court last week after a technicality stopped justice from taking its course. Yesterday he was found dead. His body was riddled with bullets but the Coroner determined that the cause of death was heart failure due to a massive shock or trauma.
A calling card was left with the body, a picture of the Grim Reaper holding the scales of justice. Scalesi is the tenth victim of the masked vigilante the papers call 'Grim Justice'. All have been criminals.
Little is known about Grim Justice. He (it?) seems to be a creature of the supernatural, not least in physical aspect. A thing with no face, just a skull and the ability to appear and disappear into the night.
Grim Justice exhibits an uncanny ability to find his victims wherever they choose to hide. To date no less than ten known gangsters and countless lesser felons have fallen to his 'tommy gun'.
1 Grim Justice is the ghost of Jim Malone, a cop investigating high level corruption and murdered by gangsters in cold blood in front of his family. His tortured soul has risen from the grave and stalks the city, avenging Malone. He is killing those that he believes set him up, from the hoods that pulled the trigger to his boss, Police Chief Nathan Jordan.
Jordan has guessed the force behind Grim Justice and will covertly hire investigators to 'exorcise' this menace.
2 Grim Justice is a highly organised and dedicated group of vigilantes. They have agents placed in all walks of life from the ganglands to the courts and can trace just about anyone anywhere.
However, the organisation has fascist tendencies and is inclined to target non-WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) individuals. Attempts to breach their security will be met with violent resistance.
3 Grim Justice is a classic case of paranoid schizophrenia. By day he is plain old Harry Brown, librarian and something of an expert in the occult. By night he is Grim Justice.
Brown was driven insane by the sight of his parents gunned down in cold blood by a lone robber. He has remained stable until recently when he witnessed another killing, pushing him over the edge.
As Grim Justice, he uses his considerable occult knowledge to magic his way to his victims. By night Harry Brown is a powerful sorcerer indiscriminately murdering criminals and gangsters.
Copyright (c) 1990 Garrie Hall
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