AP51 Subs Letter, p2


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The subject of AP Investigates was The Lone Gunman Theory.

Pupazz's Super Adventure involved his business advisory bureau.

A number of pictures comprised an entertainments booking advertisement.

The Subs Letter's fatal wound from Page One was laughed off.

The background photograph was of The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes.


JNHamble was on holiday this month. Amazingly coincidentally, Steve Faragher used her photo in Complete Control, making a neat and clever thing. Thanks, Steve. Hamble's place was filled by Q-outfitted training mannequin Pupazz from Shadow Fighter.

Following a pleased mention by Cam of his new BB gun in AP, possibly as the ideal weapon with which to pepper the authors of a particularly loathsome game, the manufacturers offered him any model from their catalogue at cost price. He chose an enormous M16 rifle-y thing, later to be wielded by a Cyclist of the Apocalypse to machine-gun Stuart to death in the final episode and prompt Cam to beam of the (perhaps disappointingly authentic) plasticky lawrod, "It's never looked so realistic."

At the time, however, Cam's snipery pops at terrorists symbolised by upturned vending machine cups and, one memorably alarming afternoon, the BT building opposite, prompted a reconstruction of the assassination of President Kennedy to determine once and for all, by proper scientific methods, whether Oswald acted alone.

Swiftly and with exacting detail, for nothing could inspire AP more than the utterly, utterly pointless, the scene was set. Cam, naturally, played Oswald, reproducing the sixth floor sniper nest by kneeling on a dangerously extended hydraulic office chair with a pot plant crudely jammed in his way. A photograph of Kennedy stuck to a cardboard box pulled by string, a crowd drawn on a roll of wallpaper and a stopwatch were collected. The experiment was later reprinted in an abridged form in the Unrelated Assassination Special, but in a hintish manner I can reveal that was Cam in Dealey Plaza at the time, he would undoubtedly have been heavily beaten by the police.

The booking advertisements of Big Band Fu and Greenstreet and Company now form part of my CV. This is not strictly relevant, but adds local colour.

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