Synopsis
Calvin Stymes invites five lifelong friends and fraternity brothers out to a western ranch, and, as they sit around the campfire, he recounts the legend of the dried-out stream-bed they were camping in. Called Koehaha, or "Stream of Ruthlessness," it runs once every 100 years. Strangely, those who "drown" in it don't really die, but neither do they come back to life, for the water washes away a man's better nature and replaces it with a ruthless nature. Each man explains what he might do with a criminal nature, then they all go to bed. Stymes moves onto the river bank while the others drown.
Notes
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Scripter Gardner Fox reports writing and being paid for the unpublished JSA tale, "The Men of Magnifica," in November of 1945, he believes for All-Star #38. Clearly, the basic structure and other elements of that story are found in the "5 Drowned Men." Thus this issue's story is most likely a drastically revised script by Julius Schwartz, with some re-writing by Robert Kanigher, of that story.
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Credits
- Script
- Julius Schwartz, Robert Kanigher, Ted Udall, Harry Lampert
- Pencils
- Irwin Hasen, Lee Elias, Joe Kubert, Frank Harry, Harry Lampert, Ed Wheelan
- Inks
- Irwin Hasen, Lee Elias, Joe Kubert, Frank Harry, John Belfi, Harry Lampert, Ed Wheelan
- Letters
- Harry Lampert
- Editor
- Sheldon Mayer
- Original plot
- Gardner Fox, Sheldon Mayer
- See notes
- Irwin Hasen, John Belfi
- Story editor, uncredited
- Julius Schwartz
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