The Huntress's Trail - Page 2 
The Perils of Helena

From Wonder Woman 303 to 307 the Huntress found herself in one cliffhanger
after another.  It all started when a criminal inventor (Pat Pending) she had 
captured died in police custody soon afterwards.  People who opposed Gotham's
tolerance for vigilantes seized on this as a example of how unnecessary force 
had caused Pending's death.  Smelling a rat Helena followed Pending's body
and the doctor who had certified his death to a funeral home run by a man
appropriately known as The Undertaker.  Helena arrived to see the doctor 
revive Pending from a deathlike trance and Pending told the Undertaker where
half his loot was buried.  The other half was to be turned over when Pending
was smuggled out of the country.  The doctor gave Pending an injection to put 
him back into a trance except that this time it really was fatal.  The Doctor, 
Undertaker and a third man known as the Professor had decide that smuggling
crooks out of the country was too risky and half the loot was plenty.  So once
they had the first installment they'd kill their clients as who'd come looking
for dead men?  The Huntress charged in to arrest them for murder and prove 
she wasn't responsible for Pending's death.  Unfortunately she had hadn't
counted on the Doctor's sidekick, a hulking psycho named Milo.  As you saw on
the last page she awoke at the end on Wonder Woman #303 in definite peril.  A
Situation she was still facing in Wonder Woman #304 (June 1983).









 
Before she could make a clean escape the ghoulish crew returned with their
latest victim.  During the struggle the cremetorium overheated and exploded
taking out both the funeral home and its owner.  Unfortunately Helena assumed
Mio and the Professor had also perished but when she paused to radio for  
fire trucks she recieved a very unpleasant surprise after Milo crept up behind
her.






Dragged off to Arkhm Asylum by Doctor Tarr and Milo the Huntress soon find out
why the title of her story in Wonder Woman #305 (July 1983) was "Straitjacket"!














Not a sentiment you want to hear from the man who's just injected who knows
what into your bloodstream.  To make matters worse the gas keeping the
violent ward patients subdued had just run out and they wanted revenge and
weren't too choosy about their victims.  As Helena was about to find out!










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