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Justice Traps the Guilty #60
Justice Traps the Guilty #60 The featured story "Homicide by Proxy" follows Frankie Brassard, a professional killer, and an unnamed deadlier man who meet in a boarding house in May 1946. The deadlier man hires Brassard to commit a murder but blindfolds him to conceal his identity and the victim's location. After Brassard disposes of the body in a mine shaft, he is tortured by guilt and uncertainty about who sent him and who he killed. When Brassard attempts to blackmail his mysterious employer, the deadlier man—revealed to be the victim's brother seeking revenge—confronts and kills him, achieving his vengeance while remaining unidentified.