A story too horrifying not to be true!






Too crazy to believe? No more unbelievable than cricket, or Morris dancing...

From Skeleton Hand In Secrets Of The Supernatural #3 (1953)

It's because they wish to trap spies, you see...






See, it's all a ploy to get spies to reveal themselves!!

Of course, if violating traffic laws means cyclists might be spies, well, America is pretty much overrun with spies right now...

From Date With Danger #6 (1953)

Do you know whom we haven't checked in on in quite awhile?

Starr Flagg, Undercover Girl!!

Our plucky CIA operative has been assigned to protect Sir Archibald Sexton, the British Egyptologist who seems to be the only one who can prevent a faction of "zealots" from taking over the Suez Canal and the oil fields!!

Unfortunately, she gets there a bit late...

...but she still saves him!!

As he briefs her on the goings-on...




Geez, it's hard for this guy to be more British--the "harumphs," the monocle, the mustache...good gosh, all he needs is a pit helmet or an umbrella and he's this guy:

Sadly, Starr reneges on her pledge to "not let him out of her sight." And so while she's off making herself pretty for the journey...


Can the imposter fool Undercover Girl?!?

He certainly talks a good game...

Definitely 100% English!!!

But you can't fool Starr Flagg for long!!

Can YOU tell how Starr spotted the fake?!?

After some intrigue and adventures, she deals with the bad guys and rescues Sir Archibald. But he's asking the same question you are...


What...??

Now, I'm left-handed, so the oppressive etiquette rules of the fascist right-handed world have largely been ignored by me. And as far as I know, I've never shared a dinner table with someone from jolly old England.

So, British friends, is it true that "Englishmen never shift their forks to their right hand when they eat. They use their left hand with the fork"?? Is this a thing?

I mean, comic books would never lie about something like that, would they?

I am reminded of this bit from Inglourious Basterds:

Damn, maybe eating and drinking etiquette rules are the key to good spycraft!!

From Manhunt #10 (1948) as reprinted in Manhunt #13 (1952)

It's not so much that I'm eyeing a life of crime.

But look at the way they treat this guy charged "with one of the most serious crimes in English history":

Ooh..."severe penalty!" This is going to be bad...


Wait...he gets to stay in a freakin' castle?!?

I mean, look at it--that "cell" is bigger than my entire apartment!!!

Seriously, if the most severe crime in English history ends up with me living in a castle in a 1200 square foot apartment with free room, board and medical care, well, I will gladly serve the wrong scone with tea or call some viscount by the wrong honorific, or whatever it was that this unnamed criminal did...

From Climax #2 (1955)